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καταμανθάνω , pf.
A.“-μεμάθηκα” Hp.Art.8,X.Cyr.1.1.1:—observe well, examine closely, “τὴν στρατιήν” Hdt.7.146; “τὸν Οἰνέα” Timocl.6.16, cf. 10; “τὸ τραῦμα” Plu.Dio34; look to, inspect, “τὸν ἐλαιῶνα” PFay.114.11 (100 A.D.); “κ. ἤν που . . ” X.Oec.12.3.
2. learn, acquire knowledge of, Pl.Tht.198d, etc.; ὑπακούειν how to obey, v.l. in X.Oec.13.7.
3. perceive with the senses, observe, Arist.Pr.960a7: more commonly with the mind, understand, perceive, observe, οὐκ ὀρθῶς κ. Pl.Prm. 128a; “εἰ ἄρα μου καταμανθάνετε ὃ λέγω” Id.Lg.689c; “ἐκ τῶν νόμων κ. τοὺς λόγους εἰ ὀρθῶς . . ” Antipho 5.14; “κ. ὁπόσα θνητῇ φύσει δυνατά” Pl. Epin.986c; κ. ὅτι . . Hp.l.c.; “ῥᾴδιον τοῦτο κ., ὅτι . . ” Arist.Pol.1285a1: pf., to be aware, “Λυκοῦργον -μεμάθηκας ὅτι . . ” X.Mem.4.4.15: c. acc. et part., “κ. πολλοὺς ἔχοντάς τι” Id.Cyr.1.1.1; “καταμαθόντες μιν ἀγοράζοντα” Hdt.4.164; “κ. τινὰ θύοντα” X.Mem.1.4.2; καταμαθὼν δὲ . . καταστασιαζόμενος that a party was being formed against him, Id.HG 1.6.4: “καταμαθεῖν τοῦ Κύρου δοκοῦμεν, ὡς . . ” Id.Cyr.8.1.40.
4. consider, τι Id.An.3.1.44; “ὅτι . . ” Id.Cyr.7.5.80, 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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