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κατίσχω , collat. form of κατέχω,
A.hold back, οὐδὲ κατίσχει [ἵππους] Il.23.321; “τὰς νέας” Hdt.2.115; “θυμοῦ μένος ὀξὺ κατισχέμεν” h.Hom. 8.14:—Med., keep by one, “γυναῖκα νέην . . , ἥν τ᾽ αὐτὸς . . κατίσχεαι” Il. 2.233.
II. possess, occupy, “οὐ ποίμνῃσιν καταΐσχεται” Od.9.122, ἀράχνια κ. ὅλον τὸ σμῆνος cover it, Arist.HA626b18.
III. = κατέχω A. IV, “ἐς πατρίδα γαιαν νῆα κατισχέμεναι” Od.11.456, cf. Hdt.8.41; ἐνὶ Φάσιδι νῆα put in there, A.R.3.57.
IV. intr., σέλας κατίσχει ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν βοῦν the light comes down from heaven, Hdt.3.28.
2. of ships, put in, Th.7.33.
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 (10):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.115
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.28
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.41
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.321
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.233
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.456
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.122
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 8 to Ares, 14
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.33
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.57
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