The corpus record

κατόπτ-ης

katoptes · ὁ

one who visits

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Where it lives

Rhesus 5 · 9.3/10k
Seven Against Thebes 3 · 5.96/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

κατόπτ-ης · katopt-ēs — LSJ

= κατοπτήρ I, h.Merc. 372, Hdt. 3.17, 21, etc.

2 one who visits, explores, one who contemplates

one who visits or explores, κλιμάτων καὶ ἐθνῶν Vett.Val. 330.15; one who contemplates, οὐρανοῦ Ph. Bybl. ap. Eus. PE 1.10.

II overseer

overseer, κατόπτης δʼ εἴμʼ ἐγὼ τῶν πραγμάτων A. Th. 41; ὦ Ζεῦ διόπτα καὶ κατόπτα Ar. Ach. 435.

κατόπτας, ὁ, title of an officer in Boeot. towns, IG 7.303.21 (Oropus), 3172.140 (Orchomenus).

In the wild

κατόπτης · katoptēs Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 369–371
κατοπτῆρας · katoptēras Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 36–37
κατόπτης · katoptēs Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 39–41
κατόπτην · katoptēn Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 767)
κατόπταν · katoptan Euripides, Rhesus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 319)
κατόπταν · katoptan Euripides, Rhesus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 85)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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