The corpus record

κατά-φρακτος

kataphraktos

covered, shut up

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Where it lives

Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

κατά-φρακτος · kata-phraktos — LSJ

covered, shut up, decked, clad in full armour, mailed, coat of mail, encased

covered, shut up, ἐν δεσμῷ S. Ant. 958 (lyr., in old Att. form κατάφαρκτος); πλοῖα κ. decked vessels, Th. 1.10 codd., cf. Plb. 1.20.13; ἔν τε ταῖς ἀφράκτοις καὶ ταῖς κ. ναυσί IG 12(1).41 (Rhodes, i B.C.); ἡ κ. ἵππος cavalry clad in full armour, mailed, Plb. 30.25.9, cf. Arr. Tact. 4.1, 19.4; ἱππεῖς Plu. Crass. 21; τὰ κ. coat of mail, PMagd. 13.6 (iii B.C.): metaph., encased in ignorance of the future, ψυχαί Ion Trag. 6.

In the wild

κατάφαρκτος · katapharktos Sophocles, Antigone 955–957
κατάφαρκτα · katapharkta Thucydides, History 1.10.4 (DIORISIS sentence 60)

Where it came from

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