κατά-βᾰσις, εως, ἡ,
opposed to ἀνάβασις, way down, descent, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.186 (_plural_), 7.223, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ εἰς Ἅιδου κ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.20, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.12, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.122 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; title of work by Dicaearchus, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 13.31.2 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; compare καταίβασις.
__2 descent from central Asia, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐπὶ θάλατταν κ. [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.25. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, descent of an idea into the mind, [[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.242. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__4 steep ground, declivity, [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 248 (_plural_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 ἔργον καταβάσεως hanging work, [[ LXX.3Ki.7.16(29). ] LXX]