The corpus record

κατακλαίω

kataklaio

bewail loudly, lament

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Where it lives

Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Discourses 3 · 0.4/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

κατακλαίω · kataklaiō — LSJ

bewail loudly, lament

bewail loudly, lament, τινα Ar. V. 386:— Med., E. El. 156 (lyr.), IT 149 (lyr.).

2 wail aloud

abs., wail aloud, Id. El. 113 (lyr.).

II lament before, to

c. gen. pers., lament before or to another, Herod. 1.59, Arr. Epict. 1.23.4, etc.; κ. αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ ib. 3.13.4.

In the wild

κατακλαύσαντες · kataklausantes Aristophanes, Wasps 385 (DIORISIS sentence 293)
κατακλαίει · kataklaiei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 638)
κατακλαίῃ · kataklaiēi Epictetus, Discourses 1.23 (DIORISIS sentence 1191)
κατακλαίει · kataklaiei Epictetus, Discourses 3.13 (DIORISIS sentence 4459)
κατακλαίειν · kataklaiein Epictetus, Discourses 3.24 (DIORISIS sentence 5471)
κατακλαίουσα · kataklaiousa Euripides, Electra 1 (DIORISIS sentence 45)

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