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καταδέω (B),
A.lack, need, c. gen., esp. of numbers, ἡ [ὁδὸς] καταδέει πεντεκαίδεκα σταδίων [ὡς] “μὴ εἶναι πεντακοσίων” Hdt.2.7; “πυραμίδα . . εἴκοσι ποδῶν καταδέουσαν τριῶν πλέθρων” wanting 20 feet of 3 plethra, ib.134; “ἕνδεκα μυριάδες ἦσαν, μιῆς Χιλιάδος . . καταδέουσαι” Id.9.30, cf. 70; [τὸ ναυτικὸν] δύο νεῶν κατέδεε ἐς τὸν ἀριθμόν there was a lack of two ships, 8.82 (unless κατέδεε be impersonal).
2. come after, be behind, “Θῆβαι ἀνδρὸς ἰδιώτου καταδέουσιν εἰς εὐδαιμονίαν” Paus.8.33.2.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.7
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