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καταφρον-έω ,
A.look down upon, think slightly of, τινος Hdt.4.134, Th.7.63, etc.; “τῶν παρόντων καταφρονῶν, τῶν ἀπόντων ἐπιθυμῶν” Lys. 12.78; “κ. τοῦ κινδύνου” Pl.Ap.28c; “τῆς τέχνης” Id.Grg.512c, al.; “καύματος καὶ ψύχους” Ephor.149 J.; “κυνηγεσίων” X.Cyn.1.18; “θεῶν” E.Ba. 199, Antiph.262; “τῶν πτωχῶν” Men.301.10; “οὐ δεῖ διαβολῆς κ.” Id.88.1.
2. c. acc., regard slightly, despise, E.Ba.503; “τοὺς ἐπιόντας” Th.6.34:—Pass., to be despised, “ὑπό τινων” Pl.R.556d; “εἰς τὰ πολεμικὰ καταφρονούμενοι” X.HG7.4.30: fut. -“φρονηθήσομαι” Isoc.6.95, Aeschin. 1.176: also in med. form -“φρονήσομαι” Pl.Hp.Ma.281c: aor. -εφρονήθην Isoc.6.108, Pl.Euthd.273d.
3. abs., to be disdainful, deal contemptuously, Th.2.11, Amphis 1.3, Arist.Rh.1378b15; τὸ -φρονοῦν contempt, D.H.5.44.
4. c. inf., think contemptuously that . . , presume, “καταφρονήσαντες Ἀρκάδων κρέσσονες εἶναι” Hdt.1.66; “καταφρονοῦντες κἂν προαισθέσθαι” Th.3.83: also c. acc., -“φρονήσαντες ταῦτα” Hdt.8.10.
5. c. acc. et gen., like καταγιγνώσκω, κ. τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀδυνασίαν Th.8.8.
II. c.acc.rei, fix one's thoughts upon, aim at, “τὴν τυραννίδα” Hdt.1.59; τοὺς βύστακας μὴ καταφρόνει do not think of your moustache, do not aim at having one (because the Spartans had to shave the upper lip, cf. μύσταξ), Antiph.44.
III. come to one's senses, Hp.Morb.Sacr.15, Nat.Mul.3 (prob.l.), Plu.2.165f.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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