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καταμύω

katamuo

close the eyes

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Where it lives

On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

καταμύω · katamyō — LSJ

close the eyes, close the eyes, drop asleep, doze

v. καμμύω:—close the eyes, κ. τὰ βλέφαρα X. Cyn. 5.11; τὰ ὄμματα Hp. Epid. 7.83; τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς LXX (v. καμμύω) ; τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ὄμμα Ph. 1.645, cf. 2.414; κ. τῷ νοερῷ ὄμματι M.Ant. 4.29: more freq. alone, close the eyes, Str. 6.1.14; κ. ὑπʼ ἐκπλήξεως Philostr. VA 6.11: hence, drop asleep, doze, Batr. l.c., Ar. V. 92: euphem. for καταθνῄσκειν, Luc. DMeretr. 7.2, D.L. 4.49. [ῡ in pres., Hedyl. ap. Ath. 8.345a: in aor., Batr. l.c.; v. μύω.]

In the wild

καταμύσῃ · katamysēi Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 68)
καταμύοντας · katamyontas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3495)
κατέμυες · katemyes Epictetus, Discourses 1.12 (DIORISIS sentence 715)
καταμύσεις · katamyseis Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.34.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1782)
καταμύων · katamyōn Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.29.1 (DIORISIS sentence 430)
καταμύων · katamyōn Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.28 (DIORISIS sentence 4395)

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