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κάτωθεν , rarely κάτω-θε Eub. 16, Alex.128.3, Theoc.4.44: (κάτω):— Adv.
A.from below, up from below, “ἐλθεῖν” A.Pers.697 (troch.); “ἀμπέμπων” Id.Ch.382 (lyr.); “ἐπανιέναι” Pl.Ti.22e; “ἐκ τῆς γῆς κάτωθεν ἀνίεται ὁ πλοῦτος” Id.Cra.403a; “ἡ κ. ἄνω πληγὴ ἀνατπωμένη” Id.Sph.221b; also, from the low country, from the coast, Hdt.3.60.
II. below, beneath, “τὰ κ.” Pl.Cra.408d; “τὰ κ. ἰσχυρότατ᾽ εἶναι δεῖ” D.2.10; ὁ κ. νόμος the law below, Id.23.28, cf. Did. ap. Harp. s.v. ὁ κ. νόμος; τίς οἶδεν εἰ κ. εὐαγῆ τάδε; S.Ant.521; οἱ κ. θεοί ib.1070, cf. E.Alc.424.
2. of Time, τοὺς εἰς τὸ κ. those belonging to the next generation, Pl.Ti.18d.
3. in Logic, = κάτω 11.g, Arist.AP0.96b37, Top.144a29.
III. as Prep. c. gen., below, “κ. τοῦ ὀμφαλοῦ” Hp.Aff.15; “τῶν ἄκρων” Thphr. Sign.24.
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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