The corpus record

κατοπτάω

katoptao

roast, bake thoroughly, to be well baked

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Where it lives

De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

κατοπτάω · katoptaō — LSJ

roast, bake thoroughly, to be well baked, to be overheated

roast or bake thoroughly, Archestr. Fr. 13.6, Phld. D. 1.19, Str. 15.2.2, 16.4.13:—Pass., to be well baked, Arist. Aud. 802b2, 803a29; to be overheated, of the blood, Gal. 7.246.

In the wild

κατόπτα · katopta Aristophanes, Acharnians 435 (DIORISIS sentence 336)
κατοπτεῦσαι · katopteusai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 2)
κατοπτῆσαι · katoptēsai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6580)
κατόπτας · katoptas Herodotus, Histories 3.17.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2989)
κατοπτέον · katopteon Plato, Statesman 288

Where it came from

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