A.= κατακτείνω, kill, in early writers in aor. 2 κατέκανον, X.Cyr.4.6.5 (v.l. -καίνων), An.3.2.12; 3sg. subj. “κατακάνῃ” Anon. inPSI9.1091.4; κατέκανον (for -έκτανον) is required by the metre in S.Ant.1340: pf. part. -κεκονότες (cf. καίνω) shd. be read in X.An. 7.6.36: pres. in later Prose, Parth.7.2, Arr.Ind.11.10, App.Pun.1, Eun.Hist.p.212D.; Hsch. has κατακαινιῶ: ἀποκτενῶ (fort. leg. κατακενίω, Dor. fut.).
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