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καταφαν-ής , ές,
A.clearly seen, in sight, “οὔπω κ. ἦσαν οἱ πολέμιοι” X.An.1.8.8, cf. Eq.Mag.7.8; ἐν κ. στρατοπεδεύεσθαι in an open place, Id.Cyr.3.3.28.
2. manifest, evident, “κ. ποιέειν τι” Hdt.2.120, cf. Isoc.11.4, Pl.Grg.453c, X.Cyr.1.6.14, etc.; “κ. ἐστί τι, γίγνεταί τι” Hp.Off.3: Comp., Pl.Lg.812a: Sup., Id.Tht.186e, etc.: freq. c. part., “καταφανέες εἰσὶ ἁμαρτάνοντες” Hp.VM 1; “κ. ἦντῇ βουλῇ αὐτὸς θεὶς τὴν ἱκετηρίαν” And.1.116, cf. Aeschin.2.39, Isoc.2.1; “κ. ἐγένοντο οὐχ ὅσιοι ὄντες” Antipho 5.82, cf. Plb.7.12.8; “καταφανέστερος εἶναι κακουργῶν” Th.5.16; κ. ἐστί τις, ὅτι . . Pl.Plt. 265d, R.506b; κ. γίγνονται, ὅτι . . X.Oec.1.20; “κ. ποιεῖν τινα” Antiph. 235.6. Adv. -νῶς evidently, plainly, Ar.Eq.943, D.35.27; καταφανέστερον ἢ ὥστε λανθάνειν too manifestly to escape detection, Th 8.46.
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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