A.“κατεβρέχθην” Ar.Nu. 267: aor. 2 κατεβράχην [α^] Thphr.CP6.17.2:—drench, soak, steep, “μὴ καταβρεχθῶ” Ar. l.c.; “δρῦς ἐν τῷ ὕδατι -βρεχομένη” Thphr.HP5.4.3; σμύρνα -βραχεῖσα μελικράτῳ Id.CPl.c.; Ἀσκληπιὸς κατέβρεξεν [τὴν Θασίαν ἄμπελον?] watered the Thasian vine, i.e. gave it its healing property, Antid.4.4: metaph., “κ. τινὰ κάδοις Χίου” Hedyl. ap. Ath.10.473a; μέλιτιπόλιν κ. Pi.O.10(11).99; καύχημα κ. σιγᾷ steep boasting in silence, i.e. be silent instead of boasting, Id.I.5(4).51. inundate, PPetr.3p.108 (iii B. C.).
κατα-βρέχω :—Med., fut. -βρέξομαι v.l. in Hp.Mul.2.133:—Pass., aor. 1
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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