The corpus record

κᾰθαρ-τικός

kathartikos

of, fit for cleansing

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Where it lives

Sophist 3 · 1.87/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

κᾰθαρ-τικός · kathar-tikos — LSJ

of, fit for cleansing, purifying, purgatives

of, fit for cleansing or purifying, ἐλαίου καὶ γῆς Pl. Ti. 60d; τὰ μέλη τὰ κ. (v. κάθαρσις II) Arist. Pol. 1342a15; τὰ κ. purgatives, Phld. Sign. 25; κ. ἀρεταί Hierocl. in CA 2p.422M.: ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) Pl. Sph. 231b. Adv. -κῶς Marin. Procl. 19.

II promoting, purgative

Medic., promoting κάθαρσις, πρόσθετον Hp. Mul. 1.74; usu . . purgative, δύναμις Gal. 11.768 (metaph., Cebes 14); φάρμακον Plu. QPlat. 2.999f, cf. Gal. 5.128; οἶνος Dsc. 5.66 (Comp.); κ. alone, Hp. Fract. 24, S.E. M. 8.480.

In the wild

καθαρτικοῖς · kathartikois Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8296)
καθαρτικὸν · kathartikon Plato, Sophist 226
καθαρτική · kathartikē Plato, Sophist 231
καθαρτικῆς · kathartikēs Plato, Sophist 231
καθαρτικὸν · kathartikon Plato, Timaeus 60 (DIORISIS sentence 539)

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