A.set upright, erect, “δέμας” E.Hipp.1445, Andr.1080; set straight a fractured or dislocated bone, Hp.Fract.16, al. (Med., have it set straight, 8, al.); κ. τὰ κηρία, of bees, Arist.HA625b19.
2. metaph., keep straight, set right, “πολλά τοι σμικροὶ λόγοι . . κατώρθωσαν βροτούς” S.El.416; “κατορθοῦντος φρένα” Id.OC1487; κ. τοὺς ἀγωνιζομένους make them prosper, D.18.290.
b. accomplish successfully, bring to a successful issue, τὸν “ἀγῶνα” Lys.18.13; “πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα” Pl.Men.99c; “εἰ γὰρ ἓν ὧν ἐπεβούλευσεν κατώρθωσεν” D.21.106; “ὁδόν” Id.24.7; μηδὲν ἁμαρτεῖν ἐστὶ θεῶν καὶ πάντα κ. Epigr.ib.18.289; “τουτὶ κατωρθώκαμεν περὶ ἐπιστήμης” Pl.Tht.203b, cf. E.Hel.1067; “τὰς ἐπιβολάς” Plb. 10.2.5, etc.:—Pass., succeed, prosper, Hdt.1.120, E.Hipp.680, Arist.EN1106b26; ἐπειδὴ δρᾶν κατώρθωσαι φρενί thou hast rightly purposed, A. Ch.512; κατωρθωμένος, of works of art, successful, Str.9.1.17, al.; “τὰ μάλισθ᾽ ὑπὸ τῶν τεχνικωτάτων -ούμενα” Phld.Vit.p.33 J.; ὅσα κατώρθωται αὐτῶν the most perfect examples, Plot.5.8.2: Gramm., βαρυνόμενον τὸ "ἔστε" κατώρθωται is correctly accented, A.D. Synt.263.14.
II. intr. as in Pass., go on prosperously, succeed, opp. πταίειν, Th.6.12, cf. D.11.11, Men.Epit.339; opp. “ἡττᾶσθαι, ἔν τινι” Isoc.4.124; opp. ἀτυχεῖν, ib.48; opp. ἁμαρτάνειν, Arist.EN1106b31, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.295; “κ. τῷ σώματι” Pl.Lg.654c; of success in war, X.Mem.3.1.3; τῇ μάχῃ, τοῖς ὅλοις, Plb.2.70.6, 3.48.2; “περί τινας τῶν πράξεων” Isoc.7.11; τὸ κατορθοῦν success, D.2.20.
