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κάθεσις

kathesis · ἡ

letting down

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

κάθεσις · kathesis — LSJ

letting down

letting down, τῆς κόμης D.L. 1.109; of a diving-bell, Arist. Pr. 960b33.

2 production

production of a play, Sch. Ar. V. 1317, prob. in Sch. Ra. 1060, Sch. Lys. 1096.

3 insertion

insertion, τοῦ αὐλίσκου Ruf. Ren.Ves. 7; of a finger, Antyll. ap. Orib. 44.23.1; of a lancet, Orib. 7.5.12.

II descent

(from Pass.) descent, Arist. Mete. 356a11; κ. νέφους εἰς τοὺς κάτω τόπους Epicur. Ep. 2p.47U.

In the wild

καθέσει · kathesei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.10 (DIORISIS sentence 939)
κάθεσιν · kathesin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9107)

Where it came from

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