The corpus record

καθιζάνω

kathizano

sit down, they went, and took their seats

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Where it lives

To Demonicus 1 · 3.46/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

καθιζάνω · kathizanō — LSJ

sit down, they went, and took their seats, settle, perch

sit down, θῶκόνδε καθίζανον they went to the council and took their seats, Od. 5.3; μάντις ἐς θρόνους κ. A. Eu. 29; παρά τινα Polyaen. 8.64: abs., σὺ δὲ καθίζανε Pherecr. 172; of bees, birds, etc., settle, perch, μέλιτταν ἐφʼ ἅπαντα βλαστήματα καθιζάνουσαν Isoc. 1.52, cf. Arist. HA 601a7; ἐπὶ δονάκων, πέτραις, ib. 593b10, 619b8.

In the wild

καθιζάνω · kathizanō Aeschylus, Eumenides 27–29
καθίζανον · kathizanon Odyssey 5.3
καθιζάνουσαν · kathizanousan Isocrates, To Demonicus 52 (DIORISIS sentence 193)
καθιζήσεσθαι · kathizēsesthai Plato, Euthydemus 278
καθιζησόμεθα · kathizēsometha Plato, Phaedrus 229 (DIORISIS sentence 49)
καθιζησόμεθα · kathizēsometha Plato, Phaedrus 229 (DIORISIS sentence 53)

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