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κατα-στορέννυ_μι , part. καστορνῦσα (as if from καταστόρνυμι) (v. infr.): fut. -στορέσω: aor. Pass.
A.“κατεστορέσθην” Hp.VM19: pf. “κατεστόρεσται” Them.Or.15.194d:—spread, cover with a thing, [“κάπετον] λάεσσι κατεστόρεσαν μεγάλοισι” Il.24.798.
II. spread upon, “κώεα καστορνῦσα θρόνοις ἔνι δαιδαλέοισι” Od.17.32, cf. 13.73.
III. throw down, lay low, “κατεστόρεσαν αὐτῶν ἑξακοσίους” Hdt.9.69; κ. κύματα smooth the waves, AP7.668 (Leon.): metaph., of morbid humours, Hp. l. c. (Pass.); “κ. τὴν ἀνωμαλίαν” Plu. Comp.Lyc.Num.2; τὴν φιλοτιμίαν, τὰπάθη, Id.Luc.5, 2.101c; “τὸν θυμόν” Ael.Fr.103.
IV. layer, “κλῆμα” Gp.4.3.2, cf. 4.1.7.
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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