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καθάπτω , Ion. κατ- ,
A.fasten or fix on, put upon, “καθῆψεν ὤμοις . . ἀμφίβληστρον” S.Tr.1051; “κ. τι ἀμφί τινι” E.Ion1006; “τι ἐπί τι” X.Cyn. 6.9; “τι εἴς τι” Plb.8.6.3; “τι ἔκ τινος” Plu.2.647e; ἄγκυραν καθάψας having made it fast, Philem.213.10; “τὰ ὀστέα καθάπτει τὰ νεῦρα” Arist. Spir.483b31:—Med., “κισσὸν ἐπὶ κρατὶ καθάπτεσθαι” Theoc.Ep.3.4:— Pass., “βρόχῳ καθημμένος” S.Ant.1222, cf. Theoc.Adon.11.
2. equip by fastening or hanging on, in Med., “σκευῇ σῶμ᾽ ἐμὸν καθάψομαι” E.Rh.202, cf. AP9.19 (Arch.):—Pass., νεβρίνῃ καθημμένος δορᾷ with a fawn-skin slung round him, S.Ichn.219; “καθημμένοι νεβρίδας” Str.15.1.71.
3. intr., attach itself, εἴς τι, πρός τι, Arist.HA514b30, 515a3; later = 11.5, fasten upon, “τῆς χειρός τινος” Act.Ap.28.3, cf. Poll.1.164.
II. used by Hom. only in Med., καθάπτεσθαί τινα ἐπέεσσι, in good or bad sense, as, σὺ τόν γ᾽ ἐπέεσσι καθάπτεσθαι μαλακοῖσι do thou accost him . . , Il.1.582; μαλακοῖσι καθαπτόμενος “ἐπέεσσιν” Od.10.70; μειλιχίοις ἐπέεσσι κ. 24.393; but also ἀντιβίοις ἐπέεσσι καθαπτόμενος assailing . . , 18.415, 20.323; “χαλεποῖσι κ. ἐπέεσσι” Hes.Op.332: without a qualifying Adj., accost, assail, “ἐπέεσσι καθάπτετο θοῦρον Ἄρηα” Il.15.127, cf. Od.2.240; without “ἐπέεσσι, γέροντα καθαπτόμενος προσέειπεν” 2.39, cf. 20.22, Il.16.421.
2. after Hom., c. gen., upbraid, Hdt.6.69, Th.6.16, Pl.Cri.52a, X.HG 1.7.4: abs., Th.6.82.
3. in military sense, attack, “καθαψάμενοι τῆς οὐραγίας” Plb.1.19.14.
4. appeal to, θεῶν . . καταπτόμενος appealing to them, Hdt.6.68; “Δημαρήτου καὶ ἄλλων μαρτύρων” Id.8.65.
5. lay hold of, “τυραννίδος” Sol.32.3; “βρέφεος χείρεσσι” Theoc.17.65; τῆς θαλάσσης take to the sea, Philostr.VA3.23: Act., “καθάπτων τοῦ τραχήλου” Arr.Epict.3.20.10(cf. 1.3).
6. to be sensitive in respect of, “ψόφου” Hp.Prorrh.1.16.
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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