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κατεῖπον , inf. κατειπεῖν, used as aor. to the pres. καταγορεύω （κατερῶ (v. κατερέω) being the fut.):—also in form κατεῖπα Hdt.2.89, Ar. Pax 20:—
A.speak against or to the prejudice of, accuse, denounce, τινος Ar.Pax 377, Th.340; “κ. τινὸς πρός τινα” Pl.Tht.149a, cf. X.Mem.2.6.33: abs., give information, Hdt.2.89, “πρὸς τοὺς βασιλέας” SIG986.7 (Chios, v/iv B.C.).
II. c. acc., declare, report, “εἴ σοι γάμον κατεῖπον” E.Med. 589; “κ. τοῖς θεαταῖς τὸν λόγον” Ar.V.54; τἀν Σάμῳ ib.283 (lyr.); πατέρα κ. make him known, E.Ion 1345; κ. τοὺς ποιήσαντας, τὰ γεγενημένα, denounce them, And.2.7: c. acc. et part., “κ. σῷ κασιγνήτῳ πόσιν ἥκοντα” E.Hel.898; enumerate, “φύλλα δένδρων” Anacreont.13.2.
2. abs., tell, κάτειπέ μοι tell me, Ar.Nu.155, Pl.86: folld. by interrog., κ. ὅκως . . Hdt.1.20; πόθεν . . Ar.Pax20; ὅ τι σιωπᾷς, κ. μοι ib.657; “πρὸς σὲ κ., ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἐλύπησάν με” Isoc.5.17, 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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