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καταφθίω (pres. only in the simple φθίω):
I. causal in fut. καταφθίσω [ι_] Od. (v. infr.), aor. 1 κατέφθι^σα Trag. (v. infr.):—ruin, destroy, “οὐ μὲν δή σε καταφθίσει” Od.5.341; “παλαιὰς διανομὰς -φθίσας” A.Eu.727; “κατὰ μὲν φθίσας τὰν γαμψώνυχα παρθένον” S.OT1198 (lyr.).
II. Pass., aor. κατεφθίμην, part. καταφθίμενος, inf. καταφθίσθαι; poet. καπφθίμενος restored in anapaestic and choriambic verses of E., Rh.378, Supp.984, El.1299:—waste away, perish, κεν ἤϊα πάντα κατέφθιτο καὶ μένε᾽ ἀνδρῶν would all have been consumed, spent, Od.4.363; “ὡς καὶ σὺ καταφθίσθαι σὺν ἐκείνῳ ὤφελες” 2.183; σεῖο καταφθιμένοιο if thou shouldst die, Il.22.288; “νεκύεσσι καταφθιμένοισιν ἀνάσσειν” Od.11.491, cf. h.Cer.347; “νόμοι περὶ τῶν -φθιμένων” IG 12(5).593 A1 (Ceos); ἐκεῖ κατέφθιτο there he died, A.Pers.319, cf. S. Ph.346; “τὠμῷ πόθῳ κ.” Id.OT970; φέγγος ἡλίου κατέφθιτο the sun's light died away, A.Pers.377.
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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