The corpus record

κατακάμπτω

katakampto

bend down, bending over, cover with a vault

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Where it lives

Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
Psalmi 2 · 0.58/10k

What it meant

κατακάμπτω · katakamptō — LSJ

bend down, bending over

bend down, so as to be concave, ἐξ ὀρθοῦ κ. Pl. Ti. 71c; εἰς ἓν κύκλῳ ib. 36b; κ. τὰς στροφάς, v. στροφή I.3:—Pass., opp. ἀνακάμπτομαι, Arist. Mete. 386a1; φλὲψ ἐπὶ τὴν ῥάχιν -ομένη Gal. 15.530: pf. part. Pass. -κεκαμμένος bending over, cj. in Thphr. HP 3.18.8.

II cover with a vault

cover with a vault, λίθῳ κατακαμφθέντες Str. 5.3.8.

III bend down, overthrow, to be bent

metaph., κ. ἐλπίδας bend down, overthrow hopes, E. Tr. 1252 (Burges, -γναψε codd., anap.):—Pass., to be bent (by entreaty), Aeschin. 1.187.

In the wild

κατακάμπτειν · katakamptein Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 65)
κατέκαμψεν · katekampsen Plato, Timaeus 36 (DIORISIS sentence 235)
κατακάμπτουσα · katakamptousa Plato, Timaeus 71 (DIORISIS sentence 665)
κατέκαμψαν · katekampsan Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 11
κατακαμπτόμενος · katakamptomenos Septuaginta, Odae 12
κατεκάμφθην · katekamphthēn Septuaginta, Psalmi 37

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