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κατάλληλ-ος , ον,
A.set over against one another, correspondent, “πόροιArist.Pr.905b8, cf. Thphr.CP6.9.2; φύσει ἅμα κατάλληλα τελειοῦται: διὸ καὶ ἀκούει τε ἅμα καὶ φωνεῖ [τὰ παιδία] Arist.Pr.902a11; “γλῶσσα κ. τῷ στόματιArtem.1.32, cf. Str.2.1.29; κ. κεῖσθαι to be parallel, of lines, S.E.M.3.100; τὰ κ. the corresponding states, Id.P.1.238; “κ. λόγοςD.H.Th.37; τὸ κ. τῆς διανοίας ib.31; φαντασίαι δόγμασι κ. M.Ant.7.2; “τοῖς στρατιωτικοῖς ἔργοις καταλληλότεροςD.C. 71.1.
2. appropriate, “κ. καὶ κατὰ φύσινArr.Epict.1.9.9, cf. Zos.4.53; “πρὸς ὑγίειανM.Ant.5.8. Adv. -λως, κ. λέγεσθαι prob. f.l. for κατ᾽ ἀλλήλων, Arist.Metaph.1041a33, cf. Stoic.3.42; “κ. τῇ φύσειArr. Epict.1.22.9.
3. Gramm., rightly constructed, congruent, A.D. Synt.4.3, al.; also, well-arranged, in good order, of the text of Aristotle, Alex.Aphr.in Metaph.172.13 (Comp.). Adv. Comp. -ότερον ib. 37.20.
II. one after another, in succession, neut. pl. κατάλληλα, as Adv., Plb.3.5.6, 5.31.5; in a row, ἑπτὰ κεφαλὰς κ. J.AJ3.6.7; ληφθέντα κατάλληλα taken in corresponding order, Euc.5.4.
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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 3.6.7
    • Strabo, Geography, 2.1.29
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.5.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.31.5
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 31
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 37
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 5.8
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 7.2
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