A.feed flocks upon or in a place, “ἀγρόν” LXXEx.22.5(4); Χὠ τὰν Σαμίαν καταβόσκων the shepherd of Samos, Theoc.15.126, cf. PSI4.346.5 (iii B.C.):—Med., with aor. 1 Med. and Pass., fut. Pass., of the flock, feed upon, Longus 2.16; “καταβοσκηθήσονται βοτάνην” Gp. 2.39.2; devour, consume, of disease or pestilence, Call.Dian.125; “δέμας καταβόσκεται ἄτη” Nic.Th.244; ἡσυχίη δὲ πόλιν κ. reigns throughout . . , Tryph.503.
καταβόσκω ,
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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