The corpus record

καταθέω

katatheo

run down, run into port, make inroads

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Where it lives

Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Cyropaedia 5 · 0.63/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Anabasis 3 · 0.53/10k
Hellenica 3 · 0.46/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
History 4 · 0.27/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

καταθέω · katatheō — LSJ

run down, run into port

run down, ἀπὸ λόφων Th. 3.97, cf. X. Cyr. 3.2.1; of ships, run into port, εἰς Πειραιᾶ Id. HG 1.1.35.

II make inroads, overrun, ravage

make inroads, εἰς πόλεις ib. 5.2.43: c. acc., κ. χώραν overrun, ravage, Th. 7.27, X. Cyr. 5.4.15; κ. θάλατταν Polyaen. 1.23.1.

2 attack, persecute, in argument, ‘run down’, treat insultingly

metaph., attack, persecute, Parth. 13.3 cod.; τοὺς τετελευτηκότας Lib. Or. 63.42; esp. in argument, ‘run down’, Pl. Tht. 171c; cf. κατατρέχω: c. gen., treat insultingly, τῆς τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος ἡλικίας Procop. Pers. 1.2.

In the wild

καταθήσεσθαι · katathēsesthai Herodotus, Histories 6.41.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6389)
καταθεῖο · katatheio Works and Days 361–363
καταθεῖο · katatheio Works and Days 45–46
καταθήσει · katathēsei Odyssey 16.45
καταθήσω · katathēsō Odyssey 19.572
καταθείομεν · katatheiomen Odyssey 21.264

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