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κατέρχομαι

katerchomai

go down, go down to the grave, down

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Where it lives

Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution 3 · 54.25/10k
Concerning the Team of Horses 7 · 24.14/10k
On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias 3 · 22.32/10k
Against Ergocles 2 · 21.98/10k
Against Theomnestus 2 1 · 18.28/10k
In Defense of Mantitheus 2 · 17.51/10k
Against Alcibiades 1 3 · 12.44/10k
Frogs 10 · 10.98/10k
Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy 2 · 9.93/10k
Against Callimachus 3 · 8.46/10k
Funeral Oration 3 · 7.38/10k
On the Scrutiny of Evandros 1 · 7.25/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κατέρχομαι · katerchomai — LSJ

go down, go down to the grave, down

go down, Οὐλύμποιο κατήλθομεν Il. 20.125, etc.; τινʼ ἀθανάτων ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος . . κατελθέμεν 6.109; go down to the grave, κ. Ἄϊδος εἴσω, Ἄϊδόσδε, ib. 284, 7.330; εἰς Ἅιδου E. HF 1101, etc.: rarely c. acc., τίς . . σκότου πύλας ἔτλη κατελθεῖν; Ar. Fr. 149.2 (parod.); from high land to the coast, ἐπὶ νῆα θοὴν κατελεύσομαι Od. 1.303; from country to town, 11.188; down the Nile, εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν PLille 3.80(iii B.C.), etc.

2 descending, comes down

of things, κατερχομένης ὑπὸ πέτρης by the descending rock, Od. 9.484, 541; of a river, κατέρχεται ὁ Νεῖλος πληθύων comes down in flood, Hdt. 2.19; κατελθόντος αἰφνιδίου τοῦ ῥεύματος Th. 4.75.

κ. εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα, Lat. descendere in certamen, S.E. M. 7.324.

4 come to

c. acc., come to a place, ὑμέτερον δῶ Od. 24.115; ἀφθονία κατελήλυθε τὴν πόλιν Lyd. Mag. 3.76.

5 pass

of property, pass to, PRein. 42.28 (i/ii A.D.), POxy. 1704.5 (iii A.D.).

II come back, return, come back from exile, to be brought back

come back, return, esp. come back from exile, Hdt. 4.4, al., A. Ag. 1647, Ch. 3, Eu. 462, S. OC 601, Ar. Ra. 1165, 1167, Pl. Ap. 21a, OGI 90.20 (Rosetta, ii B.C.), etc.; φυγὰς κατελθών S. Ant. 200; ὃς ἂν κατέλθῃ τήνδε γῆν E. IT 39: in pass. sense, ὑπʼ ὀλιγαρχίας κατελθεῖν to be brought back by . . , Th. 8.68; cf. κάτειμι II, καθέρπω II.

In the wild

κατελθὼν · katelthōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1646–1648
κατελθών · katelthōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 462–464
κατέρχομαι · katerchomai Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 3
κατῆλθες · katēlthes Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 994–997
κατέρχομαιʼ · katerchomaiʼ Aristophanes, Frogs 1128
κατέρχομαι · katerchomai Aristophanes, Frogs 1153–1154

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