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καθα^γ-ίζω , Att. fut. -ιῶ: Ion. fut. inf.
A.“κατ-αγιεῖν” Hdt.1.86:—devote, dedicate, ἀκροθίνια θεῶν ὅτεῳ δή l.c.; “νήττῃ πυρούς” Ar.Av.566, cf. Lys.238, Pl.Criti.120a, Men. 319.13, etc.; esp. of a burnt offering, θυμιήματα κ. Hdt.2.130; κ. πυρί ib.47; “κ. ἐπὶ πύρης” Id.7.167; “ἐπὶ τοῦ βωμοῦ” Id.1.183; “ἀρκεύθου ξύλοις” Paus.2.10.5: abs., Hdt.2.40, etc.; make offerings to the dead, Luc. Luct.9:—Pass., cj. in Ph.1.190 (καταγιζ- Pap., καθαγνιζ- codd.), 558 (καθαγνιζ- codd.).
II. generally, burn, καταγιζομένου τοῦ καρποῦ τοῦ ἐπιβαλλομένου [ἐπὶ τὸ πῦρ] Hdt.1.202; esp. burn a dead body, τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Καίσαρος ἐν ἀγορᾷ κ. Plu.Ant.14, cf. Brut.20; so (as cj. for καθήγνισαν） ὅσων σπαράγματ᾽ ἢ κύνες καθήγισαν whose mangled bodies dogs have buried, i.e. devoured, S.Ant.1081 (= μετὰ ἄγους ἐκόμισαν, Sch.).
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 566
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    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 238
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