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κατέρχομαι , fut.
A.“κατελεύσομαι” Od.1.303, Hdt.5.125, Arr.An.6.12.3 (but in good Att. κάτειμι, as also κατῄειν is always used for the impf.): aor. κατήλυ^θον or κατῆλθον, inf. κατελθεῖν; Dor. subj. “κατένθῃ” Berl.Sitzb.1927.165 (Cyrene); Arc. part. κατενθών, pf. part. κατηνθηκώς, v. καθέρπω 11: pf. “κατελήλυθα” SIG675.24 (ii B.C.):—go down, “Οὐλύμποιο κατήλθομεν” Il.20.125, etc.; “τιν᾽ ἀθανάτων ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος . . κατελθέμεν” 6.109; go down to the grave, κ. Ἄϊδος εἴσω, Ἄϊδόσδε, ib. 284, 7.330; “εἰς Ἅιδου” E.HF1101, etc.: rarely c. acc., τίς . . σκότου πύλας ἔτλη κατελθεῖν; Ar.Fr.149.2 (parod.); from high land to the coast, “ἐπὶ νῆα θοὴν κατελεύσομαι” Od.1.303; from country to town, 11.188; down the Nile, “εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν” PLille3.80(iii B.C.), etc.
2. of things, κατερχομένης ὑπὸ πέτρης by the descending rock, Od.9.484, 541; of a river, κατέρχεται ὁ Νεῖλος πληθύων comes down in flood, Hdt.2.19; “κατελθόντος αἰφνιδίου τοῦ ῥεύματος” Th.4.75.
3. κ. εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα, Lat. descendere in certamen, S.E.M.7.324.
4. c. acc., come to a place, “ὑμέτερον δῶ” Od.24.115; “ἀφθονία κατελήλυθε τὴν πόλιν” Lyd.Mag.3.76.
5. of property, pass to, PRein.42.28 (i/ii A.D.), POxy.1704.5(iii A.D.).
II. come back, return, esp. come back from exile, Hdt.4.4, al., A.Ag.1647, Ch.3, Eu.462, S.OC601, Ar.Ra.1165, 1167, Pl.Ap.21a, OGI90.20 (Rosetta, ii B.C.), etc.; “φυγὰς κατελθών” S.Ant.200; “ὃς ἂν κατέλθῃ τήνδε γῆν” E.IT39: in pass. sense, ὑπ᾽ ὀλιγαρχίας κατελθεῖν to be brought back by . . , Th.8.68; cf. “κάτειμι” 11, “καθέρπω” 11.
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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