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καταβο-άω , fut.
A.“-βοήσομαι” Ar.Eq.286; Ion. “-βώσομαι” Hdt.6.85: strengthd. for βοάω:—bawl, “οὐ μόνον βοᾶν, ἀλλ᾽ ἤδη καὶ καταβοᾶν” Ph. 1.475: but usu.
2. c. gen., cry out, inveigh against, “τινὸς περί τινος” Hdt. l. c.; “κ. τινῶν ὅτι σπονδὰς λελυκότες εἶεν” Th.1.67, cf. 115, 5.45:—Pass., have clamour raised against one, “ὑπό τινων” App.BC5.13.
II. c. acc., shout down, Ar.Ach.711, Eq.286.
III. c. acc. cogn., κατά μοι βόασον . . ὄπα τοῖς Ἀτρείδαις carry down my voice . . , S.El.1067 (lyr.).
IV. call for help, “τινὶ περί τινος” PSI16.551.2 (iii B. C.), PMagd.42.5 (iii B. C.): c. gen. et inf., demand clamorously from . . , “κ. τινὸς κολάζειν τὸν στρατιώτην” J.BJ2.12.1.
2. Pass., to be loudly entreated, Nic.Dam.4J.
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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