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καταπίπτω , fut. -πεσοῦμαι: aor. κατέπεσον, poet. κάππεσον (the only tense used by Hom.), Dor. κάπετον (q. v.), also
A.“κατέπετον” IG 4.951.80(Epid.); late 3sg. opt. “-πέσειεν” Apollod.Poliorc.168.5 (v.l. -οιεν): pf. -πέπτωκα:—fall, drop, “καππεσέτην” Il.5.560; “κάππεσον ἐν Λήμνῳ” 1.593; “κάππεσον ἐν κονίῃσι” 12.23; “πρηνὴς ἐπὶ γαίῃ κάππεσε” 16.311,414; “πρηνὴς ἁλὶ κάππεσε” Od.5.374; “ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλοῦ πύργου” Il. 12.386; “ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμιπλινθίων” Hdt.1.50; “ἀπὸ τῆς κλίμακος” Ar.Av. 840; “ἀπ᾽ ὄνου” Id.Nu.1273; “ἀφ᾽ ἵππου” X.Oec.1.8; “ἐς μέσους τοὺς ἄνθρακας” E.Cyc.671; “ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς” X.Cyr.4.5.54; πληγεὶς κ. Lys.1.27; “οἰκίαι καταπεπτωκυῖαι” And.1.108, BGU282.7 (ii A. D.), etc.: used as Pass. of καταβάλλω, πρὸς ἡμῶν κάππεσε, = κατεβλήθη, A.Ag.1553 (lyr.).
2. metaph., παραὶ ποσὶ κάππεσε θυμός their spirit fell, Il. 15.280; “μήτε καταπεσὼν ὀδύρεο” Archil.66.5; “πρὸς τὴν φήμην τῆς ἐφόδου -πεσόντες” J.BJ7.4.2, cf. Paus.10.20.1; κ. τὴν ψυχήν v.l. in J. AJ6.14.2: freq. in pf. part. καταπεπτωκώς, base, contemptible, λόγος Aristeas144; γένος ἄτιμον καὶ κ. Plu.Phoc.4; “ἀγεννεῖς καὶ καταπεπτωκότες” Lib.Decl.30.45; “ταῖς ψυχαῖς καὶ τοῖς σώμασι” Them.Or.10.136b.
b. “κ. εἰς ἀπιστίαν” Pl.Phd.88d; “εἰς ἀπορίαν” Id.Men.84c; “πρὸς τὸ Χεῖρον” J.AJ2.16.1.
3. τὰ -πίπτοντα the accidents of fortune, Vett.Val.40.15.
4. τὰς νυνὶ -πεπτωκυίας [ἐμβολάς] which have just been rejected, Hegetorap.Apollon.Cit.3.
5. ἄλλα, ἃ -πέπτωκε τούτοις which fall under the same head, Gal.5.723.
II. have the falling sickness, Luc.Tox.24, Philops.16.
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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