κάθοδος,
Ionic dialect κάτοδος, ἡ, descent, especially of Demeter, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.378e; represented in mysteries, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.56 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; and so of a procession, ἥρωος κ. [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 1.1.26 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: generally, going down, τῶν ἐδεστῶν ἐν τῇ κ. ἡ ἡδονή [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 690b30, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nec.” 2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; way down, [[ [prev. author] “DMort.” 27.1 ] Refs]; of planets, declination, [[ 6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis de Caelo commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 510.29. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__2 ἡ κ. ἡ ἐπὶ θάλασσαν, ={κατάβασις}, [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 journey down the Nile, [[ “POxy.” 1119.27 (3rd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II coming back, return, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 19, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.114 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of an exile to his country, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60, 61, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.85, 5.16, etc.; κ. καὶ ἄδεια [prev. author] 8.81. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III cycle, recurrence, χιλίων ἐτῶν κ. a thousand years twice told, in plural, [[ LXX.Eccl.6.6, compare 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. ] LXX+9th c.AD+]; also τρεῖς καθόδους three times, [[ LXX.3Ki.9.25, compare 2nd c.AD: Aquila LXX.Exo.34.24, +others; ἄχρι δύο καθόδων ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]twice over, [[ 6th c.AD: Alexander Trallianus Medicus 1.17. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]