A.holding down, “γῆ” Tab.Defix.101.1 (iv B.C.); κ. λίθοι, of sepulchral stones, Hsch.; κ. alone, tombstone, IG3.1425a; also, οἰκουμένης κ., of ocean, Secund.Sent.2.
2. holding fast, “μοχλοί” LXX Jn.2.7; “δεσμοί” Plu.2.321d; φάρμακα κ. τῶν ἐμβρύων drugs which prevent miscarriage, Aët. 16.21; retentive, of memory, Plu. Cat.Mi.1; secure, “κτῆσις κ. καὶ βέβαιος” D.H.Isoc.9.
3. possessing, inspiring, “Μοῦσα” Asp. ap. Ath.5.219d; in magic, inhibiting, “Ἑρμῆς” Tab.Defix.89.2 (iv B.C.), al.
II. Pass., kept down, held fast, “κάτοχ᾽ ἀμαυροῦσθαι σκότῳ” A.Pers.223 (troch.); overpowered, overcome, “ὕπνῳ” S. Tr.978 (anap.); subject, “Ἄρει” E.Hec.1090 (lyr.).
2. possessed, inspired, “δαίμονί τινι” Arist.Mir.846b24; “τῷ Σαβαζίῳ” Iamb.Myst. 3.9; “ἐκ θεοῦ” Plu.Rom.19, etc.; “ἐκ τοῦ θείου” Arr.An.4.13.5; “ἐκ Μουσῶν” Luc.Hist.Conscr.8; “ἐξ Ἄρεως” Polyaen.1.20; “ἐκ πυξίου” Luc.Ind. 15; “στροφὴν ὁλοσώματον ὥσπερ οἱ κ. δινεύοντες” Hld.4.17, cf. 8.11, 10.9; also perh. of cloistered worshippers, recluses, “οἱ κ. οὐρανίου Διός” OGI262.25 (Baetocaece, iii A.D.), cf. CIG4475 (ibid., iii A.D.): abs., Cleanth.Stoic.1.123; ἐν ἱεροῖς κ. Vett. Val.73.24.
3. cataleptic, of disease, Hp.Prorrh.1.92, cf. Gal.16.696.
b. suffering from catalepsy, Id.9.189.
2. bandage, Gal.18(1).785.
3. inhibitory spell, PMag.Par.1.1052, 2.162, Tab.Defix.Aud.187.55.
4. pl., processes on the second cervical vertebra, Poll.2.132.
IV. Adv. κατόχως retentively, of the memory, Hermipp.21.
2. in fast colours, “βεβάφθαι” AB237.
3. as if possessed, Ael.VH3.9, Poll.1.16.
4. accompanied by catalepsy, Hp.Coac.570, al.