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καταζεύγ-νυ_μι and καταζευγ-νύω ,
A.yoke together, “ἐν ἅρματα κ. σθένος ἵππιον” Pi.P.2.11:—Pass., δύο πλοῖα κατεζευγμένα (v.l. Χελώνας -μένας) D.S.20.85: metaph., to be united, “ταῖς πρῶτον οὕτω καταζευγνυμέναις πόλεσιν” Pl.Lg.753e; of marriage, Ael.VH4.1.
2. in Pass., to be straitened, confined, “ὑπ᾽ ἀναγκαίης κατέζευχθε” Hdt.8.22; “ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη” S.Ant.947.
3. Pass., of a right angle, to be made acute, “κἂν μικρῷ τινι μᾶλλον κατεζευγμένη ᾖ ἡ εὐθεῖα γωνία” Asp.in EN19.32.
II. intr., fix one's quarters, halt, encamp, “ταῖς δυνάμεσι” Plb.3.95.3, cf. Plu.Sull.25, etc.
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 (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.22
    • Plato, Laws, 753e
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 947
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.95.3
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 25
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.85
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 4.1
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