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κατα-πάσσω , Att. κατά-ττω , fut. -άσω [α^] (v. infr.): aor. 1
A.“-έπα^σα” Men. 708:—besprinkle, bespatter with, “πάντα καταπάσω βουλευματίων” Ar. Eq.99: usu. c. dat. rei, “ἀψινθίῳ κ. μέλι” Men. l. c.; γῇ τὰς κεφαλὰς κ. LXX 2 Ma.10.25: also abs., pour out, “κ. Χύδην” Pherecr.168:— Pass., “καταπαττόμενος” Ar.Nu.262:—Med., κ. τὰς κεφαλὰς πηλῷ their own heads, v.l. in D.S.1.72,91.
II. c. acc. rei, sprinkle, strew over, “ἄνθος Χαλκοῦ” Hp.Fist.3; “ἄλευρα” Arist.HA627b20; “κατὰ τῆς τραπέζης κ. τέφραν” Ar.Nu.177:—Med., καταπασάμενος τῆς κεφαλῆς κόνιν on his own head, J.BJ2.21.3 (v.l. καταμησάμενος）; γῆν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς v.l. in LXXJb.1.20; “τῶν στρωμάτων ῥόδα πολλὰ κατεπέπαστο” Luc.Asin.7.
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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