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καταστέλλω , fut. -
A.“στελῶ” E.Ba.933 (for Aeol. forms v. κασπολέω): —put in order, arrange, [πλόκαμον] E. l. c.; equip, clothe, dress, “κ. τινὰ τὰ περὶ τὼ σκέλει” Ar.Th.256, cf. Plu.2.69c.
II. let down, lower, “τὰς ῥάβδους” D.H.8.44; κ. τὰ βράγχια shut them, Plu.2.979c; press down, “τὴν γλῶσσαν” Gal.15.792.
2. repress, restrain, “οἶκτον” E.IA934; “τὸν ὄχλον” Act.Ap.19.35, cf. Wilcken Chr.10 (ii B.C., prob.); “κ. τὰς ἐπιθυμίας” Phld.Rh.2.284 S., cf. Arr.Epict.3.19.5; “τοὺς νέους” Plu.2.207e, cf. 547b, etc.:—Pass., “ἅπαντα λήξει καὶ κατασταλήσεται” Apollod.Com.18; of persons, to be placed under restraint, reduced to order, PTeb.41.21 (ii B.C.), BGU1192.5 (i B.C.); also κατεσταλμένοι τοῖς ἤθεσι of calm, sedate character, opp. τολμηρός, D.S.1.76, cf. Arr.Epict.4.4.10; “κατεσταλμένον ἦθος” D.S.10.3; “κατέσταλται πρὸς τὸ κόσμιον” Plu.Comp.Lyc.Num.3, cf. Ael.NA4.29, Arr. Epict.3.23.16.
3. Medic., reduce, “τὰ ὑπερσαρκοῦντα” Dsc.2.1.
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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    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 256
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 10.3
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 933
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 934
    • New Testament, Acts, 19.35
    • Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, 3
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.76
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 8.44
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 4.29
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