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κατα-πλώω Hdt.2.93 codd.: aor.
A.“-έπλωσα” Id.1.2, al.:— sail down; i.e.,
1. sail from the high sea to land, put in, “ἔνθα κατεπλέομεν” Od.9.142: abs., Hdt.6.97, 7.137, Lys.28.5, etc.; “ἐς Αἶαν” Hdt.1.2, cf. 8.132; ἐπὶ Ἑλλησπόντου ib.109,9.98; “ἐπ᾽ Ἀρτεμίσιον” Id.7.195; τὰς ἐκ Πόντου ναῦς Ἀθήναζε κ. X.HG5.1.28; ἕως ἂν δεῦρο -πλεύσωμεν Test. ap. D.21.168; ἐνταῦθα κ. Id.32.14; sail home, Lys. 21.3, Phoenicid.2.3; νεωστὶ καταπεπλευκώς having lately come ashore, Pl.Euthd.297c; of things, to be brought by sea, “πυρὸς Ἀθήναζε -πλέων” Thphr.CP4.9.5; “ἡ -πλέουσα ἀγορά” App.Pun.100.
2. sail down stream, [ἐς] “τὸν Εὐφρήτην” Hdt.1.185; in Egypt, down the Nile, κ. εἰς τὴν πόλιν (sc. Alexandria) PMagd.22.4 (iii B.C.), cf. PTeb.58.44 (ii B.C.), etc.; of fish, swim down stream, “κ. ἐς θάλασσαν” Hdt.2.93, cf. Arist.HA598b16.
II. sail back, Hdt.1.165, 3.45, And.2.13, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.102M., etc.
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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    • Andocides, On his Return, 13
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 168
    • Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, 14
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.2
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.97
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.185
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.137
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.195
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.132
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.98
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.142
    • Lysias, Defence against a Charge of Taking Bribes, 3
    • Lysias, Against Ergocles, 5
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 297c
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.1.28
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