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κάτ-οιδα , -οισθα, inf. κατειδέναι, part. κατειδώς (Locr.
A.“καταειδώς” Schwyzer 366 A6 (Tolophon, iii B.C.)), pf. (in pres. sense), plpf. κατῄδη (in impf. sense):—know well, understand, c. acc. rei, “ἄστρων ὁμήγυριν” A.Ag.4; “οὐδὲν κάτοισθα τῶν σαυτοῦ πέρι” S.Ph.553; “θεσφάτων βάξιν κατῄδη” Id.Tr.87; “φύλλον νώδυνον” Id.Ph.44; “κατειδὼς τὴν γυναικείαν φύσιν, ὡς . . ἥδεται” Eub.43; “μηδὲν κατειδώς, ἀλλὰ προσποιούμενος” Men.628; “ἵν᾽ εὖ κατειδῇς” S.Ichn.164.
2. c.acc.pers., know by sight, recognize, “τὸν βοτῆρα” Id.OT1048, cf. Tr.418, E.Or.1183, 1521.
3. abs., esp. in part., οὐ κατειδώς unwittingly, Id.Med.992 (lyr.), Supp. 1033.
4. c. part., know well that . . , “κάτισθι μὴ πολλοὺς ἔτι τρόχους . . τελῶν” S.Ant.1064.
5. folld. by an interrog., οὐ κάτοιδ᾽ ὅπως λέγεις I understand not how . . , Id.Aj.270; οὐ κ. ὅτῳ τρόπῳ . . E.Hipp.1245.
6. c. inf., know how to, ἦ κάτοισθα δηλῶσαι λόγῳ; S.OT1041.
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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