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καταπάλλομαι

katapallomai

dart down, leapt down from

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What it meant

καταπάλλομαι · katapallomai — LSJ

dart down, leapt down from

dart down, ἅρπῃ ἐϊκυῖα . . οὐρανοῦ ἒκ κατέπαλτο (Ep. aor. 2) Il. 19.351 (but this form shd. perh. be referred to κατεφάλλομαι, q. v.); Νὺξ φυγὰς οὐρανόθεν καταπάλλεται PMag.Berol. 2.95: aor. 1, ἑοῦ κατεπήλατο δίφρου leapt down from, Nonn. D. 18.13.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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