καθάπτω,
Ionic dialect κατ-, fasten or fix on, put upon, καθῆψεν ὤμοις.. ἀμφίβληστρον [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1051; κ. τι ἀμφί τινι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1006; τι ἐπί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.9; τι εἴς τι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.6.3; τι ἔκ τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.647e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄγκυραν καθάψας having made it fast, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 213.10; τὰ ὀστέα καθάπτει τὰ νεῦρα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Spiritu” 483b31 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, κισσὸν ἐπὶ κρατὶ καθάπτεσθαι [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus “Epigrammata” 3.4 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— passive, βρόχῳ καθημμένος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1222, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus “Adon.” 11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 equip by fastening or hanging on, in middle, σκευῇ σῶμ᾽ ἐμὸν καθάψομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 202, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 9.19 (1st c.BC: Archias):] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, νεβρίνῃ καθημμένος δορᾷ with a fawn-skin slung round him, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 219; καθημμένοι νεβρίδας 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.71. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 intransitive, attach itself, εἴς τι, πρός τι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 514b30, 515a3; later = 11.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], fasten upon, τῆς χειρός τινος [[ NT.Act.28.3, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.164. ] NT+2nd c.AD+]
__II used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in ] Refs 8th c.BC+]middle, καθάπτεσθαί τινα ἐπέεσσι, in good or bad sense, as, σὺ τόν γ᾽ ἐπέεσσι καθάπτεσθαι μαλακοῖσι do thou accost him.., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.582 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μαλακοῖσι καθαπτόμενος ἐπέεσσιν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.70; μειλιχίοις ἐπέεσσι κ. 24.393 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but also ἀντιβίοις ἐπέεσσι καθαπτόμενος assailing.. , [[ 18.415, 20.323; χαλεποῖσι κ. ἐπέεσσι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 332 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: without a qualifying adjective, accost, assail, ἐπέεσσι καθάπτετο θοῦρον Ἄρηα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.127, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.240; without ἐπέεσσι, γέροντα καθαπτόμενος προσέειπεν 2.39, compare 20.22, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.421. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]