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καθίζω , Ion. κατ- , impf.
A.“κάθιζον” Il.3.426,al.; in Prose “ἐκάθιζον” X.HG5.4.6, Din.2.13: fut.“καθέσω” Eup.12.11 D.; καθίσω (intr.) Apollod. Com.5; Ion. κατίσω (trans.) Hdt.4.190; Att. also “καθιῶ” X.An.2. 1.4, D.24.25, 39.11, IG22.778.13 (iii B.C.); Dor. “καθιξῶ” BionFr.10.16: aor. 1 “καθεῖσα” Il.18.389, al., subj. καθέσω h.Ap.ap.Th.3.104; inf. “καθέσαι” IG22.46aB*21, 25 (v/iv B.C.); poet. “κάθεσσα” Pi.P.5.42 codd.; this aor. καθεῖσα has Ms. authority in E.Hipp.31 (ἐγκαθ-, Med.), Ph. 1188, Hdt.1.88, 4.79, Th.7.82, but we also find Ep. κάθι^σα, Ion. κάτ- (for which κάθεσα, κάτεσον, etc., shd. perh. be restored), Il.19.280 (v.l. κάθεσαν), al., Hdt.1.89, 2.126, “καθῖσα” Ar.Ra.911, Th.6.66 (leg. καθεῖσα), later “ἐκάθι^σα” X.Cyr.6.1.23, Men.544, etc., cf. Poll.3.89; also Ep. part. “καθίσσας” Il.9.488; Dor. “καθίξας” Theoc.1.12, subj. καθίξῃ ib.51; late part. καθιζήσας, subj. -ζήσῃ, D.C.54.30, 37.27: pf. “κεκάθι^κα” D.S.17.115, Ep.Hebr.12.2, A.D.Synt.323.23:—Med., impf. “ἐκαθιζόμην” Ar.V.824, “κὰδ . . ἵζ-” Il.19.50: fut. “καθιζήσομαι” Pl.Phdr.229a, Euthd.278b, (προσ-) Aeschin.3.167, later “καθίσομαι” Ev.Matt.19.28, Plu.2.583f, “-ιοῦμαι” LXXMa.3.3, al.: aor. 1 “καθεσσάμην” Anacr.111; also “ἐκαθισάμην” SIG975.6 (Delos, iii B. C.), Hsch., (ἐπ-, παρ-) Th.4.130 codd., D.33.14; Ep. “ἐκαθισσάμην” Call.Dian.233, “καθισσάμην” A.R. 4.278, 1219:—Pass., aor. 1 part. “καθιζηθείς” D.C.63.5:
I. causal, make to sit down, seat, “ἄλλους μὲν κάθισον Τρῶας” Il.3.68; “μή με κάθιζ᾽” 6.360; “σ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐμοῖσιν ἐγὼ γούνεσσι καθίσσας” 9.488; “κὰδ δ᾽ εἷσ᾽ ἐν θαλάμῳ” 3.382; “τὴν μὲν . . καθεῖσεν ἐπὶ θρόνου” 18.389; “κατίσαι τινὰ ἐπ᾽ οἰκήματος” Hdt.2.121.έ; καθιεῖν τινα εἰς τὸν θρόνον, i.e. to make him king, X. An.2.1.4; “ἐπὶ θρόνον” Phld.Vit.p.22 J.
2. set, place, “τὸν μὲν . . καθεῖσεν ἐπ᾽ ἠϊόεντι Σκαμάνδρῳ” Il.5.36; “κὰδ δ᾽ ἐν Ἀθήνῃς εἷσεν” 2.549; “Κρόνον . . Ζεὺς γαίης νέρθε καθεῖσε” 14.204; “καθίζειν τινὰ εἰς δόμον” E.Ion1541; κ. στρατόν encamp it, Id.Heracl.664, cf. Th.4.90; “κ. τὸ στράτευμα ἐς Χωρίον ἐπιτήδειον” Id.6.66; “σύλλογον εἰς Χωρίον κ., Χωρὶς μὲν τοὺς ὁπλίτας, Χωρὶς δὲ τοὺς ἱππέας” Pl.Lg.755e.
b. post watchers, guards, etc., “σκοπὸς ὅν ῥα καθεῖσεν Αἴγισθος” Od.4.524; κατίσαι φυλάκους set guards, Hdt.1.89, cf. X.Cyr.2.2.14; “ἄλλους κάτισον ἀγαγὼν κατὰ τὰς . . πύλας” Hdt.3.155; “κ. ἐνέδραν” Plu.Publ.19: rarely of things, “τι ἐπὶ τηγάνοις” Pherecr.127.
3. set up, “ἀνδριάντα κάθεσσαν” Pi.P.5.42 codd.:—Med., “καθέσσασθαι” Anacr.111, A.R.4.1219.
4. cause an assembly, court, etc., to take their seats, convene, “ἀγορὰς ἠμὲν λύει ἠδὲ καθίζει” Od.2.69; ὅταν καθέσωσιν ἀγῶνα h.Ap.ap.Th.3.104; “κ. τὸ δικαστήριον” Ar.V.305, cf. D.39.11, IG22.778.13; “νομοθέτας” D.24.25, prob. in Id.3.10; but κ. τινὶ δικαστήν appoint a judge to try a person, Pl.Lg.874a; “ἐάν τε Χιλίους ἐάν θ᾽ ὁποσουσοῦν ἡ πόλις καθίσῃ” D.21.223; constitute, establish, “δικαστήρια” Pl.Plt.298e; “βουλὴν ἐπίσκοπον πάντων” Plu.Sol.19.
5. put into a certain condition, esp. in the phrase κλαίοντά τινα κ set him aweeping, κλάοντα καθέσω ς' Eup. l.c., cf. Pl.Ion535e, X.Cyr.2.2.15; but ib.14 κλαίειν τινὰ κ. to make him weep: for Theoc.1.51, v. ἀκράτιστος.
6. marry, “γυναῖκας ἀλλοτρίας” LXXNe.13.27, cf. 23.
II. intr., take one's seat, sit, abs., Il.3.394, etc.; μετ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι, ἐν θρόνοισι καθίζειν, 15.50, Od.8.422; ἐν [θώκοισι] Hdt.1.181; ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐργαστηρίοις or τῶν -ίων, Isoc.18.9, 7.15; “ἐπὶ σκίμποδα” Ar.Nu.254; “ἐπὶ δένδρου” Arist. HA614a34 (but κ. ἐπὶ κώπην, of rowers, Ar.Ra.197); of suppliants, “κ. ἐπὶ τὸν βωμόν” Th.1.126, Lys.13.24; “εἰς γόνυ” D.S.17.115: in Poets also c. acc., “κ. τρίποδα” E.Ion366, El.980; βωμόν, ὀμφαλόν, ἱερά, Id.HF48, Ion6, 1317.
2. sit, recline at meals, X.Cyr.8.4.2.
3. sit as judge, Hdt.1.97, 5.25, Pl.Lg.659b, Ph.1.382; hold a session, of the πρόεδροι, D.24.89, cf. Hermes 17.5（Delos).
4. reside, “μετά τινος” LXXRu.2.23 (3.1); ἐν πόλει ib.Ne.11.1.
5. settle, sink down, “ἐπὶ τὰ ἰσχία καθίσαι τὼ ἵππω” Pl.Phdr.254c; “καθίσας ὁ φελλὸς ἀνοίξει τὸν κρουνόν” HeroSpir.1.20.
6. of ships, run aground, be stranded, Plb.1.39.3, Str.2.3.4.
III. Med.in intr.sense, Il.19.50(in tmesi), Theoc.15.3, etc.; “εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν θᾶκον” Pl.R.516e; ἐὰν δὲ καθίζεσθαι κελεύσῃ if he order them to take their seats (among the spectators in the theatre), D.21.56 (nisi leg. καθέζεσθαι, as also ib.162, both readings are found ib.119); “καθίζεσθαι ἢ κατακλινῆναι” Pl.Phdr.228e.
2. of birds, settle, alight, Arist.HA614b23.
3. leave goods purchased in a market, SIG975.6 (Delos, iii B.C.).--Att. in this signf. acc. to Hsch.
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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