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καθέλκω , fut.
A.“καθέλξω” Ar.Ra.1398, “καθελκύσω” Luc.DDeor.21.1: aor. part. “καθελκύσαντες” Th.6.34: pf. “καθείλκυ^κα” D.5.12:—Pass., aor. and pf. (v. infr.):
1. of ships, draw to the sea, launch, E.Hel. 1531, Ar.Ach.544, Eq.1315, Isoc.4.118; “καθεῖλκον ναῦς ἐς τὸν Πειραιᾶ” Th.2.94: abs., Phld.Mus.p.15 K.,al.:—Pass., “τῶν νεῶν κατελκυσθεισέων ἐς θάλασσαν” Hdt.7.100; “εἴ τι ναυτικόν ἐστι καθειλκυς μένον” Th.6.50.
2. draw down, depress the scale, Ar.Ra.1398: metaph., outweigh, “καθέλκει δρῦν πολὺ τὴν μακρὴν ὄμπνια Θεσμοφόρος” Call.Aet. Oxy.2079.9; [ἡ τροφὴ] “τοῖς λοιποῖς . . ἰσοσθενεῖ καὶ κ. τὰ πάντα” Gal. 19.190.
3. in building, carry down, τὰ σκέλη καθείλκυσται the long walls have been carried down to the sea, Str.8.6.22.
II. metaph., drag down, “τὸ Χεῖρον . . καθελκυσθὲν συνεφελκύσασθαι τὸ μέσον” Plot.2.9.2, cf. Luc.Apol.11.
2. constrain. compel, BGU648.12 (ii A.D.), POxy.899.25 (iii A.D.); “τινὰ εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν” Lib.Or.15.29 (Pass.).
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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