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κατωφερ-ής

katopheres

hanging down

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Where it lives

On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

What it meant

κατωφερ-ής · katōpher-ēs — LSJ

hanging down, steep, sloping, descending, with a downward tendency, heavy

= κάτω φερόμενος, hanging down, κεφαλή X. Cyn. 5.30 (v.l. καταφερής); steep, κατάβασις Plb. 3.54.5; κ. θέσις sloping posture, Sor. 2.60; descending, χελώνη Orib. 49.4.51; with a downward tendency, heavy, στοιχεῖα, opp. ἀνωφερής, Stoic. 2.175, al., cf. Herm ap. Stob. 1.49.68, Simp. in Ph. 386.23; ὁρμή Eust. 603.39. Adv. -ρῶς Vett.Val. 153.4; gloss on κατωκάρα, Sch. Ar. Pax 152.

II prone to vice, lewd

metaph., prone to vice, lewd, v.l. for καταφερής in Apollod.Ath. ap. Ath. 7.281f, cf. Vett.Val. 18.3, EM 451.2; κ. εἰς τὰ ἀφροδίσια Hsch. s.v. Σαλαβακχώ.

In the wild

κατωφερῆ · katōpherē Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.20.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1943)
κατωφερὲς · katōpheres Xenophon, On Hunting 10.9 (DIORISIS sentence 453)
κατωφερῆ · katōpherē Xenophon, On Hunting 5.30 (DIORISIS sentence 214)

Where it came from

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