A.“-λύσω” Od.4.28: 3pl. plpf. “-λελύκεσαν” Hdn.8.4.2:—Pass., fut. “-λυ^θήσομαι” Pl.Lg.714c, D. 38.22 (fut. Med. in pass. sense, v. infr. 1.2a): pf. “-λέλυ^μαι” Th.6.36:— put down, destroy, “πολλάων πολίων κατέλυσε κάρηνα” Il.2.117, 9.24; τείχη, [πτόλιν], E.Tr.819, 1080 (both lyr.); γέφυραν break it up, Hdn. l. c.
2. of political or other systems, dissolve, break up, put down, κ. ἀρχήν, βασιληΐην, ἰσοκρατίας, Hdt.1.53,54, 5.92.“ά; τοῦ Διὸς τὴν δύναμιν” Ar.Pl.142; “τὸ κράτος τῆς βουλῆς” Plu.Per.7; “τὰς προσόδους τὰς Μιλησίων” SIG633.40 (Milet., ii B. C.): freq. in Att., “κ. τὸν δῆμον” Ar.Ec. 453, Th.3.81; “τὴν δημοκρατίαν” Ar.Pl.948; τὰς πολιτείας Decr. ap. D. 18.182:—Pass., καταλελυμένης τῆς δημοκρατίας Lex ap.And.1.96, cf. 95, Lys.13.4, Arist.Pol.1292a29: fut. Med. as Pass., καταλύσεται . . ἡ ἀρχή (Cobet καταλελύσεται) X.Cyr.1.6.9.
b. c. acc. pers., put down, depose, “κ. τύραννον” Th.1.18, etc.; “κ. τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς” X.Cyr.8.5.24:— Pass., τῶν ἄλλων καταλελυμένων στρατηγῶν having been dismissed, Hdt.6.43; “καταλυθῆναι τῆς ἀρχῆς” Id.1.104, cf. 6.9.
c. dissolve, dismiss, disband a body, καταλύειν τὴν βουλήν, τὸν στόλον, Id.5.72, 7.16.“β́; τῶν πόλεων τά τε βουλευτήρια καὶ τὰς ἀρχάς” Th.2.15; “τὸ ναυτικόν” D.18.102 (Pass.).
d. abolish or annul laws, customs, etc., “δίκην” Gorg.Pal.17; “νόμους” Isoc.6.66(Pass.), Plb.3.8.2, cf.Ev.Matt.5.17; “ψήφισμα” Michel725.20 (ii B.C.); also κ. τὸν ἱππέα render him useless, X.Eq.12.5.
e. τὴν φυλακὴν κ. neglect the watch, Ar.V.2, cf. Arist.Pol.1308a29; “τὴν φρουράν” Pl.Lg.762c; “τὴν κοινὴν φυλακὴν καταλυθῆναι βούλεται” Din.1.112.
3. bring to an end, “τὸν βίον” X. Ap.7; “ἐς Ἅιδαν καταλύσουσ᾽ ἔμμοχθον βίοτον” E.Supp.1004(lyr.); “μώμου ἀδικίαν καὶ δόξης ἀμαθίαν” Gorg.Hel.21; “ἐλπίδα” Th.2.89; “δόξα, ἣν αἰσχρόν ἐστιν ἐν σοὶ -λῦσαι” D.10.73; κ. τὸ πλεῖν, τὴν ἄροσιν, Id.33.4, Ael.NA13.1; “κ. τὰς θυσίας” Lys.30.17, Isoc.6.68; “τὰ γυμνάσια” And.4.39; “τὸν λόγον” Aeschin.2.126, Isoc.12.176; τοὺς λόγους περὶ τὰ μέγιστα κ. ib.199: abs., make an end, ὥρᾳ κ. die in good time, Diocl.Com.14, cf.Philostr.VA8.28; πύκτης ὢν κατέλυσε retired from the ring, AP11.79 (Lucill.), cf. 161 (Id.) (in full “-λῦσαι τὴν ἄσκησιν” Gal.Protr.14); καθάπερ ἐν τοῖς Χοροῖς ἐν τῷ καταλύειν in the ending, Arist.Pr.921a20: also pf. part. Pass. καταλελυμένος disused, obsolete, Phld.Mus.p.68 K.
b. κ. τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν εἰρήνην break the peace, Aeschin.3.55; but,
c. more commonly, κ. τὸν πόλεμον end the war, make peace, Ar.Lys.112, Th.7.31, X.An.5.7.27, etc.; δίκας settle disputes, IG5(2).357.15 (Stymphalus, iii B.C.): abs. (sc. τὸν πόλεμον), Foed. ap. Th.5.23; πρός τινα Foed.ib.8.58:—more freq. in Med., καταλύσασθαι τὰς ἔχθρας, componere inimicitias, Hdt.7.146; “τὸν πόλεμον” And.3.17, Th.6.36; “στάσιν” Ar.Ra.359: abs., make peace, Hdt. 8.140.ά, Th.1.81, X.HG6.8.6, etc.; καταλύεσθαί τινι come to terms with one, Hdt.9.11, etc.
4. Pass., ἤδη καταλελυμένης τῆς ἡλικίας in the decay of life, Arist.Pol.1335a34.
II. unloose, unyoke, “καταλύσομεν ἵππους” Od.4.28; τὸ σῶμα τοῦ ἀδελφεοῦ κ. take it down from the wall where it was hung up, Hdt.2.121.γ́:—Pass., to be taken down from hanging, Hp.Aph.2.43.
2. intr., take up one's quarters, lodge, παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ καταλύει he is my guest, Pl.Grg.447b, cf. Prt.311a, D.18.82: abs., Pl.Prt.315d: c. acc., κ. παρά τινα turn off the road to a person's house, go and lodge with him, Th.1.136; “κ. εἰς πανδοκεῖον” Aeschin.2.97; “Μεγαροῖ” Pl.Tht.142c; “ἐν τῷ ἱαρῷ” SIG978.8(Cnidos, iii B.C.):—Med., θανάτῳ καταλυσαίμαν may I take my rest in the grave, E.Med.146 (anap.).