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κατάπλοος , contr. κατά-πλους , ὁ,
A.sailing down, bearing down, Th.4.10; sailing to land, putting ashore, ib.26; ὁ Σικελικὸς κ. the arrival of the corn-fleet from Sicily, D.56.9.
2. sailing down stream, esp. down the Nile, ὁ κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν κ. OGI90.17 (Rosetta, ii B. C.), cf. PTeb.27.103 (ii B. C.).
II. sailing back, return, ὁ οἴκαδε κ. X.HG1.4.11; παρῆν τις ἐκ κ. one who had just returned, Plb.15.23.3.
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 (4):
    • Demosthenes, Against Dionysodorus, 9
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.4.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.23.3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.10
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