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ἐπικατα-βάλλω , Ep. aor. 2 ἐπικάββαλον, τῷ
A.“δ᾽ ἐπὶ φᾶρος κάββαλε” A.R.4.187, cf. Q.S.14.583:—cast over, Il.cc.; throw down upon, ἐ. τὸν οἶκόν τισι, of Samson, J.AJ5.8.12, cf. 14.15.5; throw down at, “πέτρους” D.C.50.33.
2.. let fall down or droop at a thing, “τὰ ὦτα” X.Cyn.4.3.
3.. impose a fine, Tab.Heracl.1.134, where for ἐπικαταβάνοντι Ahrens corrected -βαλίοντι (fut.part.).
4.. Pass., to be distrained upon by a creditor, Meyer Juristische Papyri p.224 (i B.C.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 14.15.5
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 5.8.12
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 4.3
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.187
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 50.33
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