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κατ-ᾴδω , uncontr. κατ-αείδω ,
A.sing to: hence,
I. trans., charm, appease by singing, τινα D.H.4.29, Plu.2.745e, Luc.JTr.39, Philops. 31: c. dat., sing a spell or incantation (ἐπῳδή) to . . , “καταείδοντες . . τῷ ἀνέμῳ” Hdt.7.191:—Pass., to be induced by charms to do a thing, c. inf., Ael.NA5.25 (dub. l.).
b. κ. δεῖπνον enliven a repast by song, Id.VH7.2.
2. sing in mockery, Luc.DMort.2.2:—Pass., to have another sing before one, Id.Bis Acc.16.
3. fill with song, “τὰς λόχμας” Longus 1.9: c. gen., “ἀηδὼν κ. τῶν ἐρημαίων Χωρίων” Ael.NA 1.43.
II. c. acc. cogn., sing by way of incantation, “κατῇδε βάρβαρα μέλη μαγεύουσ᾽” E.IT1337.
III. intr., sing from above or sing throughout a place, of birds or insects, Ael.VH3.1, NA1.20.
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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    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1337
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.191
    • Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, 39
    • Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, 31
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 16
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    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.29
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.20
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.43
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 5.25
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 7.2
    • Longus, Daphnis & Chloe, 1.9
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