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καταρρέπω ,
A.sink down or to one side, hang down, Hp.Art.43; opp. ἰσορροπέω, Plb.6.10.7: metaph., incline, fall back upon, “ἐπὶ τὸν μοναχὸν τρόπον” Epicur.Ep.2p.41U.; “ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν γνώμην” OGI315.51 (Pessinus, ii B. C.).
II. trans., cause to incline, make to fall, “τύχη γὰρ ὀρθοῖ καὶ τύχη καταρρέπει τὸν εὐτυχοῦντα τόν τε δυστυχοῦντ᾽ ἀεί” S.Ant.1158.
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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    • Sophocles, Antigone, 1158
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.10.7
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 43
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