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κατά-λυ^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.dissolution, putting down, esp. of governments, “ἡ τῶν τυράννων κ. ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλάδος” Th.1.18; “τοῦ δήμου” And.1.36, Lys.13.20; “τῆς παρούσης πολιτείας” Pl.Lg.864d; “τῆς ἀρχῆς” X.Cyr. 8.1.47, cf. Arist.Pol.1305b3, al.; “Κρόνου” Phld.Piet.94: generally, “τὴν τῶν πονηρῶν ὁμιλίαν κ. εἶναι ἀρετῆς” X.Mem.1.2.20; “κ. Χρείας” Gal.9.44.
2. dismissal, disbanding of a body of men, “στρατιᾶς” X.Cyr. 6.1.13; κ. τριήρους breaking up of a ship's crew, D.50.11; εἰς κατάλυσιν till dismissal, of soldiers at a review, X.Eq.Mag.3.12.
3. κ. πολέμου pacification, Th.8.18, X.Mem.2.8.1, Isoc.6.51.
4. generally, end, termination, “συμποσίου” X.Smp.9.7; “βίου” Id.Ap.30, PMagd. 8.10 (iii B. C.).
5. settlement of disputes, IG5(2).357.21 (Stymphalus, iii B. C.).
6. feebleness, impotence, “Χειρῶν καὶ σκελέων” Hp. Epid.4.53.
II. resting, lodging, “δεξώμεθ᾽ οἴκων καταλύσεις” E. El.393; κ. ποιεῖσθαι to rest, Plb.2.15.5.
2. = κατάλυμα, restingplace, guest-chamber, quarters, lodging, σταθμοὶ καὶ καταλύσιες (Ion.) “κάλλισται” Hdt.5.52; “ξένοις κ. ποιεῖν” Pl.Prt.315d, cf. Lg.919a (pl.), Antiph.15, Alex.2.2, Dicaearch.1.6 (pl.), IG4.203 (Corinth); “κ. βασιλική” PPetr.3p.137 (iii B. C.).
3. pl., billets for troops, PHal. 1.168 (iii B. C.).
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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    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 36
    • Demosthenes, Against Polycles, 11
    • Euripides, Electra, 393
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.52
    • Isocrates, Archidamus, 51
    • Lysias, Against Agoratus, 20
    • Plato, Laws, 864d
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    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.1.47
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    • Xenophon, Apology, 30
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