Included with: κᾰθά [θᾰ],
adverb for καθ᾽ ἅ, according as, just as, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.90.43, 116.27, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 551, “PCair.Zen.” 188.8 (3rd c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.107.10, LXX.Gen.7.9, etc.] LXX+4th c.BC+]; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμός the (so to speak) 'regular' pulse (a military metaphor), [[ 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.626. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II also καθάπερ, Ionic dialect κατάπερ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus 14, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 164, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.182, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 8, “Ec.” 61, “IG” 12.39.42, +others, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.16, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in legal instruments, ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκης [[ “PEleph.” 1.12 (4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+], etc.: with a participle, like{ὡς},{ἅτε}, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.54 (nisi to be read καίπερ)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—strengthened, καθάπερ εἰ (Ionic dialect κατάπερ εἰ, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.170)] Refs 5th c.BC+], like as if, exactly as, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 22e, 59e, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.41 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; καθάπερ ἂν εἰ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 684c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 240b10, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.32.2, etc.:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —μάχαιραν κ. like a knife, [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “adversus Christianos - Abh. Berl. Akad.” 31. Cf. καθό, καθώς. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]