Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κατα-σείω

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A.“-σείσω” Hp.Art.43: pf. “-σέσεικα” Philem.84:—shake down, throw down, “οἰκοδομήματος ἐπὶ μέγα” Th.2.76; τεῖχος, τοῦ τείχους ἐπὶ μέγα, Arr.An.1.19.2, 2.23.1; σεισμὸς κ. τὴν πόλιν Ae|.VH6.7:—Pass., fall down, Ph.2.512; of a lion's mane, “αὐχένος ἐκ λασίοιο Χαίτη -εσείετο” Pancrat.Oxy.1085.21: metaph., “κ. ἀκροατοῦ ὦτα” Philostr.VS2.29; “νόμους” Procop.Arc.27.33; “κατέσεισεν ἅπαντα καὶ κατεβρόντησε” Eun. Hist.p.256 D.; ἕως κατέσεισε until he laid him on the floor (with drinking), Men.8, cf. Philem. l. c., Ath.10.431c.

2. impel, drive headlong, “νεανίσκον εἰς τὸν μανιώδη καὶ σφαλερὸν τῆς βασιλείας ἔρωτα” Eun.Hist.p.235 D., cf. p.267 D.:—Pass., πρὸς τὸ λέγειν κ. ib. p.223 D.

3. in Surgery, treat by shaking, Hp.Art.42:—Pass., ib. 43.

4. κατασείσας τὴν χεῖρα with a motion of the hand, Act.Ap. 19.33; “κ. ἱκετηρίας” J.BJ2.21.8; κ. τὰ ἱμάτια, by way of signal, Plu. Pomp.73: more freq. c. dat., κ. τῇ Χειρί beckon with the hand, Plb. 1.78.3, Hld.10.7; “κ. τῇ Χειρὶ σιγᾶν” Act.Ap.12.17; “κ. τῷ λύχνῳ ἅμα λέγων τὸν λόγον” PMag.Lond.46.453; “κ. ὀθόναις” Hld.9.6: abs., κ. τινί beckon to another, as a sign for him to be silent, X.Cyr.5.4.4; “κ. τισὶν ἐπεξιέναι” J.AJ17.10.2; but also, shake the head in token of contempt, Phld.Vit.p.37 J.

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 (14):
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 17.10.2
- Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.21.8
- New Testament, Acts, 12.17
- Thucydides, Histories, 2.76
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.4.4
- Polybius, Histories, 1.78.3
- Hippocrates, De articulis, 42
- Hippocrates, De articulis, 43
- New Testament, Acts, 19.33
- Plutarch, Pompey, 73
- Arrian, Anabasis, 1.19.2
- Arrian, Anabasis, 2.23.1
- Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.29
- Procopius, Historia Arcana (Anecdota), 27.33

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