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καθηγ-έομαι , Ion. κατηγ- ,
2. c. acc. rei, show, explain, indicate, “τὸ ἕρμα κατ. τινίId.7.183, cf. X. An.7.8.10; τὸν ποταμὸν κ. he who was explaining it, i.e. showing where it was fordable, Pl.Tht.200e.
3. c. gen., κ. τοῦ λόγου to begin the discourse, Id.Smp.199c; ὧν καθηγήσαιτ᾽ ἂν τοῦτο of which this would be the beginning, Id.La.182c.
b. lead, command, exercise authority over, κ. τῆς στρατείας, τοῦ πολιτεύματος, Plu.Cam.15, Thes.35.
4. to be the first to do, establish, institute, Hdt.2.49,56: c. part., οὐ κατηγήσομαι νόμον τόνδε τιθείς I will not begin establishing this law, Id.7.8.ά.
5. instruct, teach, abs., Phld.Lib.p.21 O., al.; “κ. γραμματιστοῦ τρόπονDiog.Oen.11; καθηγησάμενος the teacher, Plu.2.120a: c. gen. pers., to be teacher of . . , Str.14.5.14, D.H.Is.1, Amm.5.
6. in Logic, to be antecedent, Stoic.2.72.
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.49
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.40
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.125
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.102
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.135
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.130
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.183
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.215
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.8
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.104
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 200e
    • Plato, Symposium, 199c
    • Plato, Laches, 182c
    • Strabo, Geography, 14.5.14
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.4
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.8.10
    • Plutarch, Theseus, 35
    • Plutarch, Camillus, 15
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isaeo, 1
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