The corpus record

κατ-εύχομαι

kateuchomai

pray earnestly

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Where it lives

Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κατ-εύχομαι · kat-euchomai — LSJ

pray earnestly

pray earnestly, c. inf., τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι κατεύχεται εὖ γίνεσθαι Hdt. 1.132; τί σοι κατεύξῃ τἀγαθόν (sc. γενέσθαι); E. l.c.

2 pray, entreat

c. acc. et inf., A. Ch. 139, Eu. 922 (lyr.), S. OC 1575 (lyr.); κ. τινί pray to one, A. Ch. 88, E. Andr. 1105; κ. τῇ θεῷ ἀπάξειν Ath. 13.573e; κ. τινά c. inf., entreat a person to . . , Theoc. 2.71.

3 make a prayer, vow

abs., make a prayer or vow, Hdt. 2.40, 4.172, A. Ag. 1250, S. Tr. 764, etc.

4 pray over

c. gen., pray over, τῶν ἱερῶν IG 7.235.25 (Oropus, iv B.C.).

in bad sense,

1 pray against, imprecate, on

c. gen. pers., pray against one, imprecate curses on one, τινῶν πρὸς τὸν θεόν Pl. R. 393a: c. acc. rei, οἵας ἀρᾶται καὶ κ. τύχας A. Th. 633, cf. S. Aj. 392; πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ καθʼ αὑτῶν Plu. Num. 12.

c. acc. et inf., τὸν δεδρακότα κακῶς . . ἐκτρῖψαι βίον S. OT 246; κ. τεῖσαι τοὺς Ἀχαιοὺς τὰ ἃ δάκρυα Pl. R. 394a.

abs., μηδὲν κατεύχου E. IT 536, cf. Pl. Lg. 934e.

III boast

boast, c. fut. inf., Theoc. 1.97.

In the wild

κατεύχῃ · kateuchēi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1250
κατεύχομαι · kateuchomai Aeschylus, Eumenides 921–926
κατεύχομαί · kateuchomai Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 138–139
κατεύξομαι · kateuxomai Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 88
κατεύχεται · kateuchetai Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 631–633
κατεύξῃ · kateuxēi Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis *klutaimh/stra (DIORISIS sentence 726)

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