Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“στρα^φήσομαι” D.C.42.42: pf. imper. “κατεστρέφθω” Epicur. (v. infr.): plpf. 3sg. -έστραπτο Hdn. (v. infr.); 3pl. -εστράφατο D.C.39.5:— turn down, trample on, “ποσσί” h.Ap.73; turn the soil, X.Oec.17.10; κάνθαρον κ. turn it upside down, so as to drain it, Alex.115, cf. Sotad. Com.1.33, LXX 4 Ki.21.13; “κατεστραμμένῳ τῷ ὀστράκῳ” Arist.HA 622b8.

II. upset, overturn, “τὴν πόλιν κ.” Ar.Eq.274; “τὰς εἰκόνας” D.L.5.82; ruin, undo, “βίον καὶ τέκνα καὶ πόλεις” Plb.23.11.2; τινα AP 11.163 (Lucill.):—Pass., “τὰ προάστεια κατέστραπτο” Hdn.8.4.8.

2. Med., subject to oneself, subdue, “πολέμῳ” Hdt.1.64, cf. 71, al., Th.3.13, D.18.244, etc.; “νόσον” E.Hipp.477; τοὺς μὲν κατεστρέψατο ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγήν subdued and made them tributary, Hdt.1.6: c. inf., “Ἰωνίην κατεστρέψατο δασμοφόρον εἶναι” Id.7.51.

3. Pass., in aor. and pf., to be subdued, Id.1.130,68: plpf., Th.5.29: c.inf., ἀκούειν σοῦ κατέστραμμαι am constrained to hear, A.Ag.956: pf. Pass. also in sense of Med., Hdt.1.171; “πάντα κατέστραπται καὶ ἔχει” D.4.6, cf. X.HG5.2.38, Isoc.5.21.

III. of a floating solid, right itself, Archim. Fluit. 2.9 (Pass.).

b. intr., return, “εἰς ταὐτόν” Arist.Pr.921a26, cf. Mech. 856b17.

IV. turn round, direct, [καταπάλτην] train it on the enemy, Ph.Bel.82.14; esp. towards an end, ποῖ καταστρέφεις λόγων τελευτήν; A.Pers.787; “οὕτω κατέστρεψεν ἡ τύχη ταῦτα, ὥστ᾽ ἐναντία γενέσθαι τοῖς προσδοκωμένοις” Din.1.32; κατέστρεψεν εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν τοὺς λόγους guided the conversations to a friendly end, Aeschin.2.39: hence, bring to an end, κ. τὴν βίβλον, τὸν λόγον, Plb.3.118.10, 22.9.4 (Pass., “ταῦτα μὲν αὐτοῦ κατεστρέφθω” Epicur.Nat.14.6); esp. κ. τὸν βίον Cebes 10, Ael.NA13.21, Plu.Thes.19,etc.; “ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων” Id.Comp.Sol.Publ.1: abs., come to an end, close, Plb.4.2.1; “τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ -στρέφοντος” Plu.Caes.51; esp. end life, die, Epicur.Ep.3p.61U., Plu.Them.31, Arr.An.7.3.1, Hdn.5.8.10; κ. εἰς ἀπώλειαν end in . . , Alciphr.3.70; “τοὺς λόγους ἐπὶ τὰ πράγματα -στρέφειν οἰόμενος” Plu. Phil.4; ἡ ἡμέρα κ. εἰς ὥραν δεκάτην inclines towards . . , Id.Sull. 29.

2. Rhet., metaph., λέξις κατεστραμμένη periodic style, opp. εἰρομένη, Arist.Rh.1409a26, cf. Demetr.Eloc.12,21.

V. screw or stretch tight, “αἱ κατεστραμμέναι χορδαί” Arist.Aud.803a28.