κάτω,
adverb, (κατά):
__I with Verbs implying Motion, downwards, ἐπισκύνιον κ. ἕλκεται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.136; κ. ὁρόων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.91; κατὰ τείχεος κ. ῥίπτειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.53; κατώρυξέν με κατὰ τῆς γῆς κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 238; χώρει κ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 74; κ. δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 527 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 384 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially of the nether world, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 839, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 197, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. βλέπειν, φέρεσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 500b, 584e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. διεχώρει αὐτοῖς they suffered from diarrhoea, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.20, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φάρμακον πῖσαι κ. give a purgative, [[ [prev. author] “Aff.” 32, compare 15 ] Refs]; κ. βοηθεῖν go down to help, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 32.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; for ἄνω καὶ κάτω, ἄνω κάτω, etc., see at {ἄνω} (B) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.2 downwards, in a chain of causes, ἐπὶ τὸ κ. ἰέναι [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 994a19. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.3 with genitive, down from, πετρῶν ὦσαι κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 448 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__II with Verbs implying Rest (so more frequently in Prose), beneath, below, opposed to ἄνω, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 301, etc.: ὁ τόπος ὁ κ. καλούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 112c. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]