Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κατασύρω

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A.“κατεσϋράμην” Pherecyd.158 J.:—Pass., aor. 2 κατεσύρην [υ^] (v. infr.):—draw, pull down, Philum. ap. Aët.9.12 (Pass.): usu. with a notion of violence, “τὰ [ἀεροπόρα] ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ” D.C.Fr.30.4: metaph., “ἐπιθυμία κ. τὸν ἡνίοχον λογισμόν” Ph.1.58, cf. 1.627 (Pass.): esp. lay waste, ravage, “τὰς [πόλιας] ὅσας πρότερον οὐ κατέσυραν” Hdt.6.33; “κατὰ μὲν ἔσυραν Φάληρον, κατὰ δὲ . . πολλοὺς δήμους” Id.5.81; “ὡς πλείστην τῆς χώρας” Aen.Tact.16.8, cf. Plb.1.56.3, al.

2. drag, carry off, “λείαν” Pherecyd. l.c.; “γυναῖκας” Parth.19; “τινὰ πρὸς τὸν κριτήν” Ev.Luc.12.58: metaph., “τινὰ εἰς ἐκμελῆ πολιτεύματα” Phalar.Ep.93.1.

3. sweep away, “πελάγη κ. πόλεις” Ph.2.142:—Pass., metaph., σκολιὰ ῥεῖθρα ὑφ᾽ ὧν οἱ πολλοὶ -σύρονται, ὡς τὰ λόγιά φησιν Orac.Chald.ap.Procl.in Ti. 3.326 D.; “εἰς τὸ πλῆθος ὑπὸ τοῦ μερισμοῦ καὶ τῆς διαστάσεως τῶν ὄντων” Id.in Prm.p.551 S., cf. Hierocl. in CA19p.461M.

b. Pass., rush down, of rivers, etc., D.P.296, Alciphr.3.13, Gp.5.2.17.

4. drag out, οὐρανὸς . . δρόμον ἀΐδιον -σύρων Orac.Chald.ap.Dam.Pr.284.

5. Pass., to be reduced, “σωμάτων λοιμῷ -συρέντων” Lib.Or.61.19 (v.l. συρέντων).

II. draw down, launch, “τὸ σκαφίδιον” Alciphr.1.1; τοὺς φελλοὺς κ. ὑφάλους, of a net, ibid.

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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