The corpus record

καταποντ-ίζω

katapontizo

throw into the sea, plunge

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Where it lives

Lamentationes 3 · 12.88/10k
Against Zenothemis 1 · 5.28/10k
Against Alcibiades 1 1 · 4.15/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
Regnorum II 2 · 1.24/10k
Psalmi 4 · 1.17/10k
Matthew 2 · 1.12/10k
Against Aristocrates 1 · 0.65/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καταποντ-ίζω · katapont-izō — LSJ

throw into the sea, plunge, drown therein, sink

throw into the sea, plunge or drown therein, τινα Lys. 14.27, D. 23.169, Plu. Pyth. 2.403c, etc.: metaph., Axiop. 6 (Pass.); κ. τὰς βουλάς Lib. Or. 49.10:—Pass., v.l. in Plb. 2.60.8; καταποντισθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης D.S. 18.20; ἐν τῷ πελάγει Ev.Matt. 18.6; εἰς τὸ πέλαγος Plu. Tim. 13; sink, Ev.Matt. 14.30; of a ship, PPetr. 2p.135 (iii B. C.).

In the wild

κατεπόντισαν · katepontisan Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 169 (DIORISIS sentence 599)
καταποντίσαι · katapontisai Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis Proof.23 (DIORISIS sentence 66)
καταποντωθῆναι · katapontōthēnai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2368)
καταποντωθῆναι · katapontōthēnai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.8 (DIORISIS sentence 8145)
κατεπόντωσαν · katepontōsan Herodotus, Histories 1.165.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1166)
καταποντῶσαι · katapontōsai Herodotus, Histories 3.30.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3081)

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