καθίημι (kathiemi)

Where it lives

Zacharias 4 · 8.29/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 5 · 6.03/10k
Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
Categories 5 · 4.98/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Helen 4 · 4.09/10k
Ecclesiazusae 3 · 3.93/10k
Regnorum I 7 · 3.78/10k
Against Boeotus 1 1 · 3.67/10k
Regnorum III 7 · 3.66/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
Ion 3 · 3.28/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καθίημι · kathiēmi — LSJ

let fall, drop, send down, have sent, down, sink, let, down, lowered, let, down, pour, reach by sounding, sound, pass, make, make, let, flow loose, let, grow long, carry, down, let down, let down, bring, to the rest, let down, let, fall, let, march, lay, stretch down seawards, low tone

let fall, drop, send down, κὰδ δὲ [κεραυνὸν] . . ἧκε χαμᾶζε Il. 8.134; κατὰ δʼ ὑψόθεν ἧκεν ἐέρσας 11.53; οἶνον λαυκανίης καθέηκα I have sent the wine down my throat, 24.642; καθίετε ἵππους ἐν δίνῃσι sink them in the stream, as an offering to the river-god, 21.132; [ἱστία] ἐς νῆας κάθεμεν we let them down, lowered them, Od. 9.72; λαῖφος καθήσειν A. Eu. l.c.; σχοίνῳ σπυρίδα κ. let it down by a cord, Hdt. 5.16; σῶμα πύργων κ. E. Tr. 1011; κοντὸν ἐς [τὴν λίμνην] κ. Hdt. 4.195; ἐμαυτὸν εἰς ἅλα E. Hel

2 send down into the arena, enter for racing, produce, set in motion, employ, employ, to be put in motion

send down into the arena, enter for racing, ἅρματα, ζεύγη, Th. 6.16, Isoc. 16.34; of plays, produce, Eratosth. ap. Sch. Ar. Nu. 552 (Pass.); διδασκαλίαν Plu. Cim. 8; so ἔδοξε τοῖς πρυτάνεσι . . γνώμας καθεῖναι (Com. for προθεῖναι) Ar. Ec. 397; κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν λογοποιοὺς κ. D. 24.15: freq. in later Greek in a general sense, set in motion, employ, Luc. DMeretr. 7.4; κ. ἔς τινας ὑποψίας Philostr. VA 6.38; φίλους καὶ ῥήτορας κ. employ them, Plu. Per. 7, cf. Philostr. VA 4.42:—Pass., to be put in mot

3 allow to return

allow to return from exile, φυγάδας X. HG 2.2.20.

II swoop down, run down, sink, arrive

intr., swoop down like a wind, λαμπρὸς καὶ μέγας καθιείς Ar. Eq. 430; of rivers, run down, ἑκατέρωσε μέχρι τοῦ μέσου Pl. Phd. 112e; κ. εἰς γόνυ sink on the knee, Plu. Ant. 45; κ. εἰς ἀγῶνα, Lat. descendere in arenam, Id. QConv. 2.616d, Luc. Alex. 6; κ. ἐς Ῥόδον arrive there, v.l. for κατῆγεν, Polyaen. 5.17.2.

In the wild

καθήσειν · kathēsein Aeschylus, Eumenides 553–557
καθιέναι · kathienai Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 660–662
κάθες · kathes Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 329)
καθίει · kathiei Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 348)
καθειμένον · katheimenon Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 425)
καθέντα · kathenta Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 829)

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Where it came from

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