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κατά-κλι^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.making one to lie down, seating him at table, opp. ὑπανάστασις, Pl.R.425b, Arist.EN1165a28; ἡ κ. τοῦ γάμου the celebration of the marriage feast, Hdt.6.129.
II. (from Pass.) lying at table, sitting at meat, Arist.Pol.1336b9,21; “παρά τινι” Pl.Smp.175e; τὸ σχῆμα τῆς κ. Plu.2.679f, cf. Porph.Abst.2.61.
2. way of lying in bed, “τὴν κ. ποιείσθω ἐπὶ τὴν ὑγιᾶ γνάθον” Hp.Art.33, cf.Prog.3 (pl.).
b. taking to one's bed, of a sick person, Id.Epid.4.31, J.AJ4.8.33, etc.
c. causing one to take to his bed, i. e. striking with disease, PMag.Par.1.2496.
d. Astrol., horoscope cast at the hour when a patient takes to his bed, Gal.19.529, Cat.Cod.Astr.1.20, 8(4).57.
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 (6):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.129
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 4.8.33
    • Plato, Republic, 425b
    • Plato, Symposium, 175e
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 33
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 3
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