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κατά-βα^σις , εως, ἡ, opp. ἀνάβασις,
A.way down, descent, Hdt.1.186 (pl.), 7.223, etc.; ἡ εἰς Ἅιδου κ. Isoc.10.20, Str.8.6.12, cf. Hdt.2.122; title of work by Dicaearchus, Cic.Att.13.31.2; cf. καταίβασις.
2. descent from central Asia, X.An.5.5.4; ἡ ἐπὶ θάλατταν κ. D.S.14.25.
3. metaph., descent of an idea into the mind, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.242.
4. steep ground, declivity, Demetr.Eloc.248 (pl.).
5. ἔργον καταβάσεως hanging work, LXX3 Ki.7.16(29).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 13.31.2
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.25
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.186
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.122
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.223
    • Isocrates, Helen, 20
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.6.12
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.5.4
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