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καταστάζω ,
A.shed, drip,
I. of persons,
1. c. acc. rei, let fall in drops upon, shed over, “κ. δάκρυ τινός” E.Hec.760; “ἀφρὸν κατέσταζ᾽ εὐτρίχου γενειάδος” Id.HF934; also of a garment, “νώτου καταστάζοντα βύσσινον φάρος” S.Fr.373.3: c. acc. only, let fall in drops (sc. αἷμα), A. Fr.327.
2. c. dat. rei, run down with a thing, νόσῳ κ. πόδα to have one's foot running with a sore, S.Ph.7.
II. of the liquid,
1. intr., drip, trickle down, βωμοῦ from the altar, E.IT72; “τάφου” Id.Hel.985; δάκρυα κ. τὰ μὲν κατὰ τῶν πέπλων, τὰ δὲ ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας (v.l. for στάζω) X.Cyr.5.1.5; “αἷμα κ. εἰς τὴν γῆν” Luc.VH1.17; ὁ ἄκρατος “κ. πρὸς ἡμᾶς” Id.Luct.19.
2. trans., bedew, wet, “ἱδρώς γέ τοί νιν πᾶν καταστάζει δέμας” S.Ph.823, cf. E.Hec.241; “ἀφρῷ” Id.Supp.587.
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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