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κατα-λύω,
future -λύσω[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.28 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: 3rd.pers. plural pluperfect -λελύκεσαν[[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.4.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, future -λῠθήσομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 714c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.22 (_future_ _middle_ in _passive_ sense, see below 1.2a)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect -λέλῠμαι[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— put down, destroy, πολλάων πολίων κατέλυσε κάρηνα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.117, 9.24 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τείχη, [πτόλιν], [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 819, 1080 (both Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γέφυραν break it up, [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus [prev. cited] ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 of political or other systems, dissolve, break up, put down, κ. ἀρχήν, βασιληΐην, ἰσοκρατίας, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.53, 54, 5.92. ; τοῦ Διὸς τὴν δύναμιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 142; τὸ κράτος τῆς βουλῆς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 7; τὰς προσόδους τὰς Μιλησίων “SIG” 633.40 (Milet., 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in Attic dialect, κ. τὸν δῆμον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 453, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.81; τὴν δημοκρατίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 948 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς πολιτείας Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.182 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, καταλελυμένης τῆς δημοκρατίας Legal cited in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.96, compare 95, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.4, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1292a29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future middle as passive, καταλύσεται.. ἡ ἀρχή (Cobet καταλελύσεται) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2.b with accusative person, put down, depose, κ. τύραννον [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18, etc.; κ. τινὰ τῆς ἀρχῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.24:] Refs 5th c.BC+] — passive, τῶν ἄλλων καταλελυμένων στρατηγῶν having been dismissed, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.43; καταλυθῆναι τῆς ἀρχῆς [prev. author] 1.104, compare 6.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.c dissolve, dismiss, disband a body, καταλύειν τὴν βουλήν, τὸν στόλον, [[ [prev. author] 5.72, 7.16. ; τῶν πόλεων τά τε βουλευτήρια καὶ τὰς ἀρχάς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.15; τὸ ναυτικόν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.102 (_passive_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.d abolish or annul laws, customs, etc., δίκην [[ 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Pal.” 17; νόμους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.66 (_passive_), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.8.2, cf. NT.Matt.5.17; ψήφισμα “Michel” 725.20 (2nd c.BC)] NT+5th c.BC+]; also κ. τὸν ἱππέα render him useless, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 12.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.e τὴν φυλακὴν κ. neglect the watch, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 2, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1308a29; τὴν φρουράν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 762c; τὴν κοινὴν φυλακὴν καταλυθῆναι βούλεται 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.112. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.f κ. τὴν τριηραρχίαν lay it down, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 18.59 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν ἄσκησιν, see below 3a.
__3 bring to an end, τὸν βίον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 7; ἐς Ἅιδαν καταλύσουσ᾽ ἔμμοχθον βίοτον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1004 (Lyric poetry); μώμου ἀδικίαν καὶ δόξης ἀμαθίαν 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Hel.” 21; ἐλπίδα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89; δόξα, ἣν αἰσχρόν ἐστιν ἐν σοὶ -λῦσαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.73 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. τὸ πλεῖν, τὴν ἄροσιν, [[ [prev. author] 33.4, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.1; κ. τὰς θυσίας 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 30.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.68; τὰ γυμνάσια 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.39; τὸν λόγον 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.126, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.176 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς λόγους περὶ τὰ μέγιστα κ. [[[prev. work]199: _absolutely_, ] Refs]make an end, ὥρᾳ κ. die in good time, [[ 5th c.BC: Diocles Comicus 14, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 8.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πύκτης ὢν κατέλυσε retired from the ring, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 11.79 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus), compare 161 ([prev. author]) (in full -λῦσαι τὴν ἄσκησιν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “προτρεπτικός - Scripta Minora” 14)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; καθάπερ ἐν τοῖς Χοροῖς ἐν τῷ καταλύειν in the ending, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 921a20: also ] Refs 4th c.BC+]perfect participle passive καταλελυμένος disused, obsolete, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.68 K. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3.b κ. τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν εἰρήνην break the peace, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.55 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but,
__3.c more commonly, κ. τὸν πόλεμον end the war, make peace, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 112, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.31, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.27, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δίκας settle disputes, [[ “IG” 5(2).357.15 (Stymphalus, 3rd c.BC): _absolutely_ (i.e. τὸν πόλεμον), Foed. cited in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.23; πρός τινα Foed.[prev. work] 8.58:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —more frequently in middle, καταλύσασθαι τὰς ἔχθρας, componere inimicitias, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.146; τὸν πόλεμον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.17, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36; στάσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 359 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, make peace, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.140.ά, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.81, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.8.6, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καταλύεσθαί τινι come to terms with one, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.11, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 passive, ἤδη καταλελυμένης τῆς ἡλικίας in the decay of life, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1335a34. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II unloose, unyoke, καταλύσομεν ἵππους [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.28 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ σῶμα τοῦ ἀδελφεοῦ κ. take it down from the wall where it was hung up, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121.γ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be taken down from hanging, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 2.43. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 intransitive, take up one's quarters, lodge, παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ καταλύει he is my guest, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 447b, compare “Prt.” 311a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.82: _absolutely_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315d: with _accusative_, κ. παρά τινα] Refs 5th c.BC+] turn off the road to a person's house, go and lodge with him, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.136; κ. εἰς πανδοκεῖον 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.97; Μεγαροῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 142c; ἐν τῷ ἱαρῷ “SIG” 978.8 (Cnidos, 3rd c.BC):] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, θανάτῳ καταλυσαίμαν may I take my rest in the grave, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 146 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
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