καταστρέφω (katastrepho)

Where it lives

Bel et Draco (LXX) 2 · 23.81/10k
Aggaeus 2 · 21.98/10k
Malachias 2 · 14.4/10k
Amos 2 · 6.5/10k
Job 6 · 4.5/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Histories 65 · 3.54/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 21 · 1.96/10k
Hellenica 12 · 1.83/10k
Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καταστρέφω · katastrephō — LSJ

turn down, trample on, turn the soil, turn, upside down

turn down, trample on, ποσσί h.Ap. 73; turn the soil, X. Oec. 17.10; κάνθαρον κ. turn it upside down, so as to drain it, Alex. 115, cf. Sotad.Com. 1.33, LXX 4 Ki. 21.13; κατεστραμμένῳ τῷ ὀστράκῳ Arist. HA 622b8.

II upset, overturn, ruin, undo

upset, overturn, τὴν πόλιν κ. Ar. Eq. 274; τὰς εἰκόνας D.L. 5.82; ruin, undo, βίον καὶ τέκνα καὶ πόλεις Plb. 23.11.2; τινα AP 11.163 (Lucill.):—Pass., τὰ προάστεια κατέστραπτο Hdn. 8.4.8.

2 subject to oneself, subdue, subdued and made

Med., subject to oneself, subdue, πολέμῳ Hdt. 1.64, cf. 71, al., Th. 3.13, D. 18.244, etc.; νόσον E. Hipp. 477; τοὺς μὲν κατεστρέψατο ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγήν subdued and made them tributary, Hdt. 1.6: c. inf., Ἰωνίην κατεστρέψατο δασμοφόρον εἶναι Id. 7.51.

3 to be subdued, am constrained

Pass., in aor. and pf., to be subdued, Id. 1.130, 68: plpf., Th. 5.29: c. inf., ἀκούειν σοῦ κατέστραμμαι am constrained to hear, A. Ag. 956: pf. Pass. also in sense of Med., Hdt. 1.171; πάντα κατέστραπται καὶ ἔχει D. 4.6, cf. X. HG 5.2.38, Isoc. 5.21.

III right itself

of a floating solid, right itself, Archim. Fluit. 2.9 (Pass.).

b return

intr., return, εἰς ταὐτόν Arist. Pr. 921a26, cf. Mech. 856b17.

IV turn round, direct, train, guided, to, end, bring to an end, come to an end, close, end life, die, end, inclines

turn round, direct, [καταπάλτην] train it on the enemy, Ph. Bel. 82.14; esp. towards an end, ποῖ καταστρέφεις λόγων τελευτήν; A. Pers. 787; οὕτω κατέστρεψεν ἡ τύχη ταῦτα, ὥστʼ ἐναντία γενέσθαι τοῖς προσδοκωμένοις Din. 1.32; κατέστρεψεν εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν τοὺς λόγους guided the conversations to a friendly end, Aeschin. 2.39: hence, bring to an end, κ. τὴν βίβλον, τὸν λόγον, Plb. 3.118.10, 22.9.4 (Pass., ταῦτα μὲν αὐτοῦ κατεστρέφθω Epicur. Nat. 14.6); esp. κ. τὸν βίον Cebes 10, Ael. NA 13.21, Plu. T

2 periodic

Rhet., metaph., λέξις κατεστραμμένη periodic style, opp. εἰρομένη, Arist. Rh. 1409a26, cf. Demetr. Eloc. 12, 21.

V screw, stretch tight

screw or stretch tight, αἱ κατεστραμμέναι χορδαί Arist. Aud. 803a28.

In the wild

κατέστραμμαι · katestrammai Aeschylus, Agamemnon 956–957
καταστρέφεις · katastrepheis Aeschylus, Persians 787
κατεστραμμένην · katestrammenēn Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
κατεστραμμένη · katestrammenē Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
καταστρεψάμενος · katastrepsamenos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.3 (DIORISIS sentence 571)
Κατέστρεψε · Katestrepse Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.9 (DIORISIS sentence 937)

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