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καταδουλ-όω

katadouloo

reduce to slavery, enslave

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Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution 2 · 36.17/10k
Letter 2 1 · 7.84/10k
On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias 1 · 7.44/10k
Menexenus 3 · 6.24/10k
Against Eratosthenes 3 · 6.2/10k
Funeral Oration 2 · 4.92/10k
On the Chersonese 2 · 4.74/10k
Galatians 1 · 4.58/10k
Evagoras 2 · 4.35/10k
Concerning the Team of Horses 1 · 3.45/10k
Plataicus 1 · 3.14/10k
Panathenaicus 4 · 2.52/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καταδουλ-όω · katadoul-oō — LSJ

reduce to slavery, enslave

reduce to slavery, enslave, Ἀθήνας Hdt. 6.109; τὴν Ἑλλάδα Id. 8.144; Ἀθηναίοις κ. Κέρκυραν Th. 3.70; νῆσον βασιλεῖ Isoc. 9.20:—Pass., κατεδεδούλωντο Hdt. 5.116; κατεδουλώθησαν Id. 6.32; καταδεδουλωμένος ὑπό τινος Pl. Smp. 219e: abs., Lys. 18.5.

2 make a slave to oneself, enslave

more freq. in Med., make a slave to oneself, enslave, τὴν μητρόπολιν Hdt. 7.51, cf. Pl. R. 351b; τινας X. Mem. 2.1.13, cf. GDI 4982 (Gortyn), PEleph. 3.3 (iii B.C.), etc.; ἡ τύχη τὸ σῶμα κατεδουλώσατο Philem. 95.8; τὸ κρέσσον τῷ χείρονι -εύμενοι (Ion. for -ούμενοι) Eus.Mynd. Fr. 10; κ. τὸν Ἰσραὴλ δουλείαν LXX 1 Ma. 8.18; ἔργα ὧν κατεδουλοῦντο αὐτούς ib. Ex. 1.14.

II enslave in mind, break in spirit

metaph., enslave in mind, παιδισκάριόν με καταδεδούλωκʼ εὐτελές Men. 338, cf. 2 Ep.Cor. 11.20; κ. τὴν ψυχήν PMag.Lond. 123.4 (iv/v A.D.); break in spirit, καταδουλοῖ τὴν τόλμαν ἡ ἀνάγκη App. Pun. 81.

more freq. in Med., ἡ ἀνάγκη καταδουλοῦται τὴν γνώμην Hp. Fract. 15; οἴει τι μᾶλλον καταδουλοῦσθαι ἀνθρώπους τοῦ ἰσχυροῦ φόβου; X. Cyr. 3.1.23, cf. E. IA 1269; κ. τὰς ψυχάς Isoc. 12.178; τὸ λογιστικόν Pl. R. 553d; τὰς ἐπιθυμίας Aristox. Fr.Hist. 15.

In the wild

καταδουλώσωνται · katadoulōsōntai Aristotle, Politics 1333b (DIORISIS sentence 2859)
καταδουλοῦσθαι · katadoulousthai Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
κατεδουλώσαντο · katedoulōsanto Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
καταδουλωσομένην · katadoulōsomenēn Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 46 (DIORISIS sentence 110)
κατεδουλοῦντʼ · katedoulountʼ Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 74 (DIORISIS sentence 182)
καταδουλούμενον · katadouloumenon Demosthenes, On the Crown 72 (DIORISIS sentence 199)

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