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καταλα^λ-έω , pf.
A.“-λελάληκα” A.D.Synt.323.7:—talk, babble loudly, τοῖς θύραζε ταῦτα κ. Ar.Ra.752; τινος before another, Luc.Asin. 12.
II. talk down, rail at, “ἡμᾶς” IG9(2).338.6 (Thess.); “τινὰ πρὸς πάντας” Plb.3.90.6; “τὸ δόγμα” Id.18.45.1; τινος D.S.11.44; “ὑμῶν ὡς κακοποιῶν” 1 Ep.Pet.2.12; “τινὸς ψευδῆ” LXXHo.7.13; κατά τινος ib. Ps.49(50).20:—Pass., “ἐπί τινι” Plb.27.13.2; to be outdone in speech, “ὑπ᾽ ἰδιωτῶν” Phld.Rh.1.343S.
2. weary by talking, gloss on καταγλωττίζειν, Phryn.PSp.79B.
3. simply, interview, address a person, PHib.1.151 (iii B. C.).
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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