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κατα-φυ^γή , ἡ,
A.place of refuge, Hdt.7.46; “ἔχει γὰρ καταφυγὴν θὴρ μὲν πέτραν, δοῦλος δὲ βωμούς” E.Supp.267; κ. σωτηρίας a safe retreat, Id.Or.724; “μηδεμίαν ἔχειν κ.” Isoc.14.55; “μόνην οἴονται κ. εἶναι τοὺς φίλους” Arist.EN1155a12; “κύριος κ. μου” LXX Ex.17.15; “ἐπί τινα κ. πεποιῆσθαι” Sammelb.4638.29 (ii B.C.), etc.
2. c. gen. obj., κ. κακῶν refuge from . . , E.Or.448 (pl.); “τῶν ἀκουσίων ἁμαρτημάτων κ. εἶναι τοὺς βωμούς” Th.4.98; “κ. ποιεῖσθαι εἰς τέκνα” E.Or.567 (pl.), cf. Antipho 1.4; “ηὕρισκον κ. αὑτοῖς εἰς θεούς” Pl.Lg.699b, etc.; “ἡ εἰς τοὺς νόμους κ.” Hyp.Eux.10; “ἐμοὶ πόλις ἐστὶ καὶ κ. καὶ νόμος ὁ δεσπότης” Men. 581.
II. way of escape, excuse, “μεγάλων ἀδικημάτων” D.46.9, cf. 54.21 (pl.).
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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