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κατακάμπτω ,
A.bend down, so as to be concave, ἐξ ὀρθοῦ κ. Pl.Ti. 71c; εἰς ἓν κύκλῳ ib.36b; κ. τὰς στροφάς, v. στροφή 1.3:—Pass., opp. ἀνακάμπτομαι, Arist.Mete.386a1; “φλὲψ ἐπὶ τὴν ῥάχιν -ομένη” Gal.15.530: pf. part. Pass. -κεκαμμένος bending over, cj. in Thphr.HP3.18.8.
II. cover with a vault, “λίθῳ κατακαμφθέντες” Str.5.3.8.
III. metaph., κ. ἐλπίδας bend down, overthrow hopes, E.Tr.1252 (Burges, -γναψε codd., anap.):—Pass., to be bent (by entreaty), Aeschin.1.187.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 187
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 1252
    • Plato, Timaeus, 36b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 71c
    • Strabo, Geography, 5.3.8
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