The corpus record

κατάποσις

kataposis · ἡ

gulping down, swallowing

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

κατάποσις · kataposis — LSJ

gulping down, swallowing

gulping down, swallowing, Pl. Ti. 80a, Arist. PA 690b28, Gal. 10.506; τῆς τροφῆς Aret. CA 1.4; τοῦ Κρόνου τῶν παίδων Sallust. 4 (pl.); [τέχνης] Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.257.

II gullet

gullet, Muson. Fr. 18A p.97 H., Epict. Gnom. 22, Dsc. 3.80, Sor. 1.86, Xenocr. ap. Orib. 2.58.93, Aret. SD 1.7.

In the wild

κατάποσιν · kataposin Epictetus, Discourses 1.16 (DIORISIS sentence 807)
κατάποσιν · kataposin Epictetus, Fragments (DIORISIS sentence 222)
καταπόσεως · kataposeōs Plato, Timaeus 80 (DIORISIS sentence 761)

Where it came from

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