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καταπήγνυ_μι and καταπερι-ύω (Arist.Pol.1324b20),
A.stick fast in something, plant firmly, “ἔγχος μὲν κατέπηξεν ἐπὶ Χθονί” Il.6.213; ἐν δὲ σκόλοπας κ. 7.441, cf. Hdt.4.72, Ar.Av.360, PPetr.3p.121 (iii B. C.), etc.; “εἰς τὴν γῆν κ. τὸν καυλόν” Arist.HA555b20; “τὸ κέντρον ἐπὶ δένδρον” Philum.Ven.37.1:—Pass., “-πα^γέντος σκόλοπος” S.E.P.1.238, cf. Thphr.HP3.1.1.
2. metaph., fix, crystallize, “τὴν Χύσιν τῆς ἀπειρίας τῷ περατοειδεῖ δεσμῷ” Dam.Pr.57.
II. Pass., with pf. and plpf. Act., stand fast or firm in, “ἰὸς ἐν γαίῃ κατέπηκτο” Il.11.378; “ἱστὸς -πεπηγώς” Hp.Art.43; “στήλη -πεπηγυῖα” Hdt.7.30.
2. become congealed, freeze, Plb.3.55.5; of fish, ὑπὸ τοῦ ψύχους κ. Arist. HA601b31.
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 (8):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 360
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.72
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.30
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.378
    • Homer, Iliad, 7.441
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.213
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.55.5
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 43
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