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καταίρω ,
A.take down, only in Aeol. form κατ-αέρρω for κατ-αείρω (q.v.): elsewh.
II. intr., come down, swoop, of birds, “ἐς τὰ βιβλία” Ar.Av.1288; “ἐς Δελφούς” Paus.10.15.5; “ἀφ᾽ ἑτέρας τινὸς γῆς ἐνταῦθα” Plu.Rom.9; of bees, ἐπὶ τὸν θύμον κ. Id.2.41f; of persons, “κ. ἀπ᾽ ὄχθων” X.Eq.Mag.6.5; “ἐκεῖσε” E.Ba.1294; “εἰς τὰς Ἀθήνας” Pl. Hp.Ma.281a; “εἰς τὰς τῶν πολεμίων Χεῖρας” Plu.Phil.14.
2. of ships, put into port, put in, “ἐς Καῦνον” Th.8.39; “εἰς τὴν Χώραν” Hell.Oxy.16.1; ἐπὶ νῆσον, πρὸς τὴν Πανορμῖτιν, Plb.1.60.3, 1.56.3; “ἀπὸ τῆς Συρίας δευρί” Alciphr.1.38.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1288
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 1294
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.15.5
    • Plato, Greater Hippias, 281a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.39
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 6.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.56.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.60.3
    • Plutarch, Philopoemen, 14
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 9
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