The corpus record

κατασκοπ-ή

kataskope · ἡ

viewing closely, spying

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Where it lives

Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
History 3 · 0.2/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

κατασκοπ-ή · kataskop-ē — LSJ

viewing closely, spying, to inspect

viewing closely, spying, πέμπειν τινὰ εἰς κατασκοπήν S. Ph. 45; μολεῖν εἰς κ. E. Ba. 838; ἐπὶ κατασκοπήν X. Cyr. 6.2.9, cf. HG 1.4.11, Arist. Ath. Fr. 4, Plb. 3.95.8; ἐπὶ -σκοπῇ τῶν πραγμάτων Aeschin. 2.28; κατασκοπῆς ἕνεκα X. An. 7.4.13; ἔχειν κ. Plu. Fab. 12; κατασκοπαῖς χρωμένους Th. 6.34; ἐς τὴν κ. τῶν χρημάτων to inspect the money, ib. 46.

In the wild

κατασκοπὴν · kataskopēn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..fragments.6 (DIORISIS sentence 15)
κατασκοπήν · kataskopēn Euripides, Bacchae 838
κατασκοπήν · kataskopēn Sophocles, Philoctetes 45
κατασκοπαῖς · kataskopais Thucydides, History 6.34.6 (DIORISIS sentence 4281)
κατασκοπὴν · kataskopēn Thucydides, History 6.41.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4329)
κατασκοπὴν · kataskopēn Thucydides, History 6.46.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4352)

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Where it came from

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