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καταπίνω [ι_], fut.
A.“-πίομαι” Ar.Eq.693, later “-πιοῖμαι” Plu.Alc.15: aor. “κατέπιον” IG4.951.102 (Epid.); poet. “κάππιον” Hes.Th.p.45 R.: pf. “-πέπωκα” Ar.Av.1137:—gulp, swallow down, both of liquids and solids (“οὐδ᾽ ἐν τῷ καταπίνειν ἦν πάντως τὸ πίνειν” Ph.1.478), τοὺς μὲν κατέπινε Κρόνος (sc. υἱούς) Hes.Th.459, cf. 467, E.Cyc.219; “ὁ τροχίλος . . καταπίνει τὰς βδέλλας” Hdt.2.68, cf. 70; “τεμάχη” Ar.Nu.338; λίθους Id.Av. l. c.; [κίχλας] Pherecr.108.24; [μάζας] Telecl.1.5; of the sea, “μὴ ναῦν κατὰ κῦμα πίῃ” Thgn.680, cf. Arist.Pr.931b39 (Pass.); τὸ στόμα [τῆς γῆς] “-πίεται αὐτούς” LXXNu.16.30:—Pass., τὸ -ποθὲν ὕδωρ (sc. by the earth) Pl.Criti.111d; of rivers that disappear underground, Arist.Mete.351a1; “ὑφ᾽ ἅμμου” D.S.1.32; of cities swallowed by an earthquake, Str.1.3.17; “πόλις καταποθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῆς θαλάττης” Plb.2.41.7.
2. abs., swallow, “μόλις καταπίνειν δύνηται” Hp.Aph. 4.35, cf. Gal.Nat.Fac.3.6.
II. metaph., τὸν ἡμίοπον ὁ μέγας [αὐλὸς] κ. A.Fr.91; “καταπιοῦνται ὑμᾶς οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι” Plu.Alc.15:—Pass., to be absorbed, of knots in wood, Thphr.HP5.2.2; “τῆς -πεπομένης ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ φύσεως” Dam.Pr.10.
b. κ. Εὐριπίδην drink in Euripides, i.e. imbibe his spirit, Ar.Ach.484, Luc.JTr.1:—Pass., “τὸ τεχνίον ἀεὶ τοῦτό μοι κατεπίνετο” Antid.2.4.
c. swallow, absorb, “τὰς τέχνας” Chrysipp.Stoic.2.257 (Pass.); but, swallow one's anger, ib.242.
2. swallow up, consume, [the robe] “ἐρίων τάλαντον καταπέπωκε ῥᾳδίως” Ar.V.1147; ὁ δικαστὴς αὐτὰ [the revenue] “καταπίνει μόνος” Id.Ra.1466; τὸν ναύκληρον αὐτῷ σκάφει κ. Anaxil.22.19; τι Men. Epit.151.
3. spend, waste in tippling, [τὴν οὐσίαν] “οὐ μόνον κατέφαγεν, ἀλλὰ . . καὶ κατέπιεν” Aeschin.1.96, cf. D.C.45.28.
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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