κᾰθά [θᾰ],Adv.forκαθ' ἅ,
A. according as, just as,
IG 12.90.43 , 116.27 , Men. Mon. 551 , PCair.Zen. 188.8
(iii B.C.), Plb. 3.107.10 , LXX Ge. 7.9 , etc.;ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμόςthe (so to speak) 'regular' pulse (a military metaphor), Archig. ap. Gal. 8.626 .
II. alsoκαθάπερ, Ion.
κατάπερ, Philol. 14 , Democr. 164 , Hdt. 1.182 , al., Ar. Eq. 8 , Ec. 61 , IG 12.39.42 , al., D. 37.16 , etc.: freq. in legal instruments, ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκης
PEleph. 1.12
(iv B.C.), etc.: with apart., like ὡς, ἅτε , D.C. 37.54 (nisi leg.καίπερ):—strengthd.,καθάπερ εἰ( Ion.
κατάπερ εἰ, Hdt. 1.170 ),like as if, exactly as, Pl. Phlb. 22e , 59e , al.;καθάπερ ἄν(forἐάν) D. 23.41 ;καθάπερ
ἂν εἰ
Pl. Lg. 684c
, Arist. Ph. 240b10 , Plb. 3.32.2 , etc.:—μάχαιραν κ.likea knife, Porph. Chr. 31 . Cf.καθό, καθώς.