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κατεῖδον , inf. κατι^δεῖν, part. κατι^δών, aor. 2 with no pres. in use, καθοράω being used instead:—
A.look down, “Περγάμου ἒκ κατιδών” Il.4.508 (nisi leg. ἐκκατ-).
II. c. acc., look down upon, view, “τὰς νήσους ἁπάσας ἐν κύκλῳ” Ar.Eq.170.
2. see, behold, regard, Thgn.905, A.Pers.1026 (lyr.); catch sight of, “τὰς νέας” Hdt.7.194, cf. E.Supp. 1044; κατιδεῖν βίον to live, A.Ag.474 (lyr.).
3. of mental vision, perceive, discern, S.OT338, Pl.Euthphr.2c.
III. Med.in act.sense, aor. 2 κατειδόμην, inf. “κατιδέσθαι, τι” Hdt.4.179, 7.208, S.El.892, etc.; “κατιδέσθαι ἔς τι” Hdt.5.35.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 474
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 1026
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 170
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 1044
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.179
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    • Sophocles, Electra, 892
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 338
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.508
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