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κατεσθίω

katesthio

eat up, devour

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Where it lives

Nahum 4 · 43.34/10k
Amos 12 · 39/10k
Joel 6 · 38.96/10k
Bel et Draco (LXX) 2 · 23.81/10k
Abdias 1 · 22.73/10k
Osee 7 · 18.57/10k
Lamentationes 2 · 8.59/10k
Zacharias 4 · 8.29/10k
Odae 3 · 7.38/10k
Revelation 5 · 5.05/10k
Galatians 1 · 4.58/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κατεσθίω · katesthiō — LSJ

eat up, devour

eat up, devour, in Hom. freq. of animals of prey, λέων κατὰ ταῦρον ἐδηδώς Il. 17.542; of a serpent, [νεοσσοὺς] κατήσθιε 2.314, cf. Od. 12.256; of a dolphin, κατεσθίει ὅν κε λάβῃσιν Il. 21.24; also of men, οἳ κατὰ βοῦς . . ἤσθιον Od. 1.8; τοὺς γονέας Hdt. 3.38, cf. 8.115, E. Cyc. 341; [τυρὸν] αὐτοῖς τοῖς ταλάροις κ. Ar. Ra. 560; κατεδηδόκασι τὰ λάχανʼ Alex. 15.12: c. gen. partit., κ. πολλῶν πουλύπων Amips. 6.

2 eat up, devour

eat up, devour oneʼs substance, τὰ κοινά, τὰ πατρῷα, Ar. Eq. 258, Antiph. 239; τὰ ὄντα D. 38.27; πατρῴαν οὐσίαν Anaxipp. 1.32.

3 corrode, to be gnawed

corrode, [ῥεύματα] κ. γνάθους Hp. VM 19; λίθοι κατεδηδεσμένοι ὑπὸ σηπεδόνος Pl. l.c., cf. Dialex. 1.5 (Pass.); of the wind, κ. τὰ ἄνθη Thphr. CP 2.7.5:—Pass., to be gnawed, ib. 5.17.7.

4 bite

bite, τοῦ παλαιστοῦ τὸ οὖς Philostr. Im. 1.6.

κ. ἑαυτόν, metaph., of remorse, Lib. Or. 29.32, Ep. 256.

In the wild

κατεσθίειν · katesthiein Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1148b (DIORISIS sentence 2355)
κατεδηδοκὼς · katedēdokōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 411)
καταφαγόντα · kataphagonta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8614)
καταφαγεῖν · kataphagein Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1962)
κατεδηδοκότα · katedēdokota Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3487)
κατεσθίεσθαι · katesthiesthai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4695)

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