STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: καταστρέφω

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perfect κατέστραφα (transitive) [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.11.2:] Refs 2nd c.BC+] —passive, future - [[ στρᾰφήσομαι Dio Cassius Historicus [{2-3rd c.AD}] 42.42 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: perfect imperative [[ κατεστρέφθω Epicurus Philosophus [{4-3rd c.BC}] ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] (see. below): pluperfect 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person singular -έστραπτο [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus (see. below); 3rd._person_ etc for 1st._person_, 2nd._person_ _plural_ -εστράφατο 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 39.5 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— turn down, trample on, [[ ποσσί “hymnus ad Apollinem” 73 ] Refs]; turn the soil, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oec.” 17.10; κάνθαρον κ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] turn it upside down, so as to drain it, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 115, compare 3rd c.BC: Sotades Lyricus Comedy texts 1.33, LXX.2Ki.21.13; κατεστραμμένῳ τῷ ὀστράκῳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 622b8 ] LXX+4th c.BC+].

__II upset, overturn, [[ τὴν πόλιν κ. Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Equites” 274; τὰς εἰκόνας 3rd c.AD: Diogenes Laertius 5.82 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ruin, undo, [[ βίον καὶ τέκνα καὶ πόλεις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.11.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τινα [[“AP” 11.163 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus):] Refs 1st c.AD+] —passive, [[ τὰ προάστεια κατέστραπτο 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.4.8 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+].

__II.2 middle, subject to oneself, subdue, [[ πολέμῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.64, compare 71, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.244, etc.; νόσον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 477 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς μὲν κατεστρέψατο ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγήν subdued and made them tributary, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, [[ Ἰωνίην κατεστρέψατο δασμοφόρον εἶναι [prev\. author] 7.51 ] Refs].

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__IV turn round, direct, [καταπάλτην] train it on the enemy, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus “Bel.82.14”; especially towards an end, ποῖ καταστρέφεις λόγων τελευτή; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Pers.” 787; οὕτω κατέστρεψεν ἡ τύχη ταῦτα, ὥστ᾽ ἐναντία γενέσθαι τοῖς προσδοκωμένοις Dinarchus Orator [{4-3rd c.BC}] 1.32 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατέστρεψεν εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν τοὺς λόγους guided the conversations to a friendly end, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.39 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: hence, bring to an end, κ. τὴν βίβλον, τὸν λόγον, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.118.10, 22.9.4 (_passive_, ταῦτα μὲν αὐτοῦ κατεστρέφθω Epicurus Philosophus [{4-3rd c.BC}] “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 14.6); especially κ. τὸν βίον Cebes 10, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “NA” 13.21, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Thes.” 19,etc.; ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων [prev\. author] “Comp. Sol.Publ.” 1 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: absolutely, come to an end, close, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.2.1; τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ -στρέφοντος Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Caesar” 51 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; especially end life, die, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Ep.” 3p.61U., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Them.” 31, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “An.” 7.3.1, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.8.10; κ. εἰς ἀπώλειαν] Refs 4th c.BC+] end in.., [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.70; τοὺς λόγους ἐπὶ τὰ πράγματα -στρέφειν οἰόμενος Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Philopoemen” 4 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἡ ἡμέρα κ. εἰς ὥραν δεκάτην inclines towards.., [[ [prev\. author] “Sull.” 29. ] Refs]