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καταγρα?́φ-ω ,
A.scratch, lacerate, Hdt.3.108 (v.l. καταγνάφω), Ael.VH10.3; ἰὸς δένδρεα κ. marks them, Nonn.D.21.329; κατέγραφεν ἠέρα ταρσῷ grazed it, ib.4.407, cf. Tryph.669:—Pass., “καταγεγράφθαι ταῖς ῥυτίσι” EM239.31.
2. engrave, inscribe, “εἰς τοὺς τοίχους στίχον” Plb.5.9.4:—Pass., νόμοι κατεγράφησαν (for Att. ἀνεγρ-）“ εἰς ἄξονας” Plu.Sol.25.
3. draw in outline, delineate, Paus.1.28.2.
4. describe, Ptol.Geog.1.2.2, D.P. 707, Aret.CA1.5 (Pass.): in Geom., ἑξάγωνον κ. Simp.in Cael.653.7.
5. paint over, “τοίχων ἀμορφίαν βαφαῖς” Luc.Am.34.
II. fill with writing, [σανίδας] E.Alc.969 (lyr.):—Pass., Luc.VH1.7.
2. register, record, “μνήμας εἰς τὸν ἔπειτα Χρόνον -γεγραμμένας” Pl.Lg.741c; “ὠνάς” BGU1213.9 (iii B.C.); “κατεγράφησαν ἄνδρες οὓς ἔδει θνῄσκειν” Plu. Cic.46; esp. enroll, “ναύτας” Plb.1.49.2; “δυνάμεις” D.S.11.1; “τινὰς εἰς φυλὰς καὶ φρατρίας” D.H.2.35:—Pass., τμηθέντων τῶν ὁρκίων . . καὶ καταγραφέντων, . . τοὺς ὁμήρους . . τοὺς . . καταγραφέντας, Plb.29.3.6; “σύγκλητος ὑπὸ τῶν τιμητῶν καταγραφεῖσα” D.S.20.36; “Σαπφὼ ἐν Μούσαις δεκάτη καταγράφεται” AP9.571.
3. summon by a written order, [Χορηγοὺς] “κ. τινάς” Arist.Oec.1352a7; “κοινοβούλιον” Plb.28.19.1.
b. prescribe, ordain, c. acc. et inf., Luc.Am.19.
4. convey, transfer by deed, Plu.2.482c; “οἰκίαν εἴς τινα” PPetr.2p.70 (iii B.C.), cf. BGU50.8 (Pass., ii A.D.), POxy.1703 (iii A.D.), etc. (also in Med. of the purchaser, have conveyed to one, Annuario 4/5.469 (Halic.):—Pass., ὁ καταγραφείς the person to whom property is conveyed, POxy.472.19 (ii A. D.)): generally, assign, “ἑαυτῷ λύτρα” Ael.Fr.71: c. inf., reckon that . . , Id.NA7.11.
5. devote to the infernal gods, curse, IG9(1).977 (Corc.), Tab.Defix.p.vii; so prob. in Plu.Cic.32.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.1
    • Euripides, Alcestis, 969
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.108
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.28.2
    • Plato, Laws, 741c
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.49.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 28.19.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 29.3.6
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    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.5
    • Plutarch, Solon, 25
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 32
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 46
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.36
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.35
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 7.11
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 10.3
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