κατορθ-όω (katorthoo)

Where it lives

Answer to Philip's Letter 4 · 31.06/10k
Letter 2 2 · 15.67/10k
Letter 8 1 · 15.04/10k
Against the Sophists 1 · 7.55/10k
On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias 1 · 7.44/10k
Evagoras 3 · 6.53/10k
Proverbia 7 · 6.3/10k
Archidamus 3 · 4.9/10k
Second Olynthiac 1 · 4.89/10k
Panegyricus 5 · 4.64/10k
Eudemian Ethics 12 · 4.6/10k
To Philip 4 · 4.57/10k

Densest 12 of 70 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κατορθ-όω · katorth-oō — LSJ

set upright, erect, set straight, have, set straight

set upright, erect, δέμας E. Hipp. 1445, Andr. 1080; set straight a fractured or dislocated bone, Hp. Fract. 16, al. (Med., have it set straight, 8, al.); κ. τὰ κηρία, of bees, Arist. HA 625b19.

2 keep straight, set right, make, prosper

metaph., keep straight, set right, πολλά τοι σμικροὶ λόγοι . . κατώρθωσαν βροτούς S. El. 416; κατορθοῦντος φρένα Id. OC 1487; κ. τοὺς ἀγωνιζομένους make them prosper, D. 18.290.

b accomplish successfully, bring to a successful issue, succeed, prosper, thou hast rightly purposed, successful, the most perfect examples, is correctly accented

accomplish successfully, bring to a successful issue, τὸν ἀγῶνα Lys. 18.13; πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα Pl. Men. 99c; εἰ γὰρ ἓν ὧν ἐπεβούλευσεν κατώρθωσεν D. 21.106; ὁδόν Id. 24.7; μηδὲν ἁμαρτεῖν ἐστὶ θεῶν καὶ πάντα κ. Epigr.ib. 18.289; τουτὶ κατωρθώκαμεν περὶ ἐπιστήμης Pl. Tht. 203b, cf. E. Hel. 1067; τὰς ἐπιβολάς Plb. 10.2.5, etc.:—Pass., succeed, prosper, Hdt. 1.120, E. Hipp. 680, Arist. EN 1106b26; ἐπειδὴ δρᾶν κατώρθωσαι φρενί thou hast rightly purposed, A. Ch. 512; κατωρθωμένος, of works of art, succe

II go on prosperously, succeed, success

intr. as in Pass., go on prosperously, succeed, opp. πταίειν, Th. 6.12, cf. D. 11.11, Men. Epit. 339; opp. ἡττᾶσθαι, ἔν τινι Isoc. 4.124; opp. ἀτυχεῖν, ib. 48; opp. ἁμαρτάνειν, Arist. EN 1106b31, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.295; κ. τῷ σώματι Pl. Lg. 654c; of success in war, X. Mem. 3.1.3; τῇ μάχῃ, τοῖς ὅλοις, Plb. 2.70.6, 3.48.2; περί τινας τῶν πράξεων Isoc. 7.11; τὸ κατορθοῦν success, D. 2.20.

III

Med. in sense of Act. I.2 b, τῇ πόλει κατορθωσάμενος ἀγαθά IPE 12.34.28 (Olbia, i B.C.).

In the wild

κατώρθωσαι · katōrthōsai Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 512–513
κατορθώσασα · katorthōsasa Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 130)
κατορθώσασι · katorthōsasi Aristophanes, Frogs 735–737
κατορθοῖ · katorthoi Aristophanes, Peace 1 (DIORISIS sentence 655)
κατορθώσωμεν · katorthōsōmen Aristophanes, Plutus 350 (DIORISIS sentence 269)
κατορθωθῶσιν · katorthōthōsin Aristotle, Ars Poetica 13

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Where it came from

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