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καθήκω , Ion. κατήκω , (v. ἥκω)
A.come or go down, esp. to fight, A. Ch.455 (lyr.).
2. impers., καθήκει μοι it belongs to me, is my duty, c. inf., “οἷς καθήκει ἁθροίζεσθαιX.An.1.9.7, cf. Cyr.8.1.4, etc.: in later writers, impf. καθῆκε in pres. sense, it is meet, proper, οὐδ᾽ ἅψασθαι καθῆκέ τινων Aristeas 149; “οὐ κ. αὐτὸν ζῆνAct.Ap.22.22: freq. in part., τὰ καθήκοντα one's due or duty, X.Cyr.1.2.5; “τὰ κατήκοντα ΣπαρτιήτῃσιHdt.7.104; ποιεῖν τὸ κ. Men.575: esp. in Stoic philos. (from signf.1.3 acc. to D.L.7.108, cf. “κατάB.1.3), περὶ τοῦ κ., title of work by Zeno, cf. Stoic.1.55, etc.: freq. in pl., ib.3.30, etc.; μὴ κ. unbecoming, Ep.Rom.1.28.
4. Adv. pres. part. καθηκόντως fittingly, properly, Epicur.Ep.2p.53U., OGI90.28(Rosetta, ii B.C.), Plb.5.9.6, v.l. in D.S.1.93; “πρός τιPorph.Abst.1.43; consistently with duty, Stoic.3.188, Plu.2.448e; appropriately, c. dat., τῷ τόπῳ Aristeas 81; “κ. ἔχειν πρός τιId.87.
III. τὸ καθῆκον the precise proportion, Thphr.Lap.46.
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