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κατακαίνω

katakaino

kill

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Where it lives

Agesilaus 3 · 4.08/10k
Hiero 2 · 3.36/10k
Cyropaedia 25 · 3.17/10k
Anabasis 15 · 2.67/10k

What it meant

κατακαίνω · katakainō — LSJ

kill

= κατακτείνω, kill, in early writers in aor. 2 κατέκανον, X. Cyr. 4.6.5 (v.l. -καίνων), An. 3.2.12; 3 sg. subj. κατακάνῃ Anon. in PSI 9.1091.4; κατέκανον (for -έκτανον) is required by the metre in S. Ant. 1340: pf. part. -κεκονότες (cf. καίνω) shd. be read in X. An. 7.6.36: pres. in later Prose, Parth. 7.2, Arr. Ind. 11.10, App. Pun. 1, Eun. Hist. p.212D.; Hsch. has κατακαινιῶ· ἀποκτενῶ (fort. leg. κατακενίω, Dor. fut.).

In the wild

κατέκανον · katekanon Xenophon, Agesilaus 2.22 (DIORISIS sentence 158)
κατακανόντων · katakanontōn Xenophon, Agesilaus 2.23 (DIORISIS sentence 165)
κατακαίνουσι · katakainousi Xenophon, Agesilaus 2.23 (DIORISIS sentence 164)
κατέκανε · katekane Xenophon, Anabasis 1.10.7 (DIORISIS sentence 575)
κατακαίνοι · katakainoi Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 347)
κατέκανε · katekane Xenophon, Anabasis 1.9.6 (DIORISIS sentence 514)

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Where it came from

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