κατα-πλήσσω,
Attic dialect καταπλήττω, future -ξω [[4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.194 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—strike down, τινὸς εἰς τὴν κατακλεῖδα [ξίφος] [[“PMag.Par.” 1.300: usually _metaphorically_ ] Refs], strike with amazement, astound, terrify, [[ κατέπλησσεν ἐπὶ τὸ φοβεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65; ὁ φόβος κ. τὰς ψυχάς Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.25; καταπλήξειν ᾤετο τὸν δῆμον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 6th c.BC+] [same place]; κ. τοὺς ἀκροατάς, of orators, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rh.” 1408a25; -πλῆξαί τινα τῇ προδοσίῃ] Refs 4th c.BC+] tax him with his treachery, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.128 (variant{-πλέξαι})] Refs 5th c.BC+]; browbeat, bully, [[ POxy. 237 viii 10 (2nd c.AD):] Refs 2nd c.AD+] —middle, [[ -πλήξασθαι τοὺς ὑπεναντίους 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.89.1, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 11.77, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Or.” 6.191a, etc.:] Refs 2nd c.BC+] —passive, to be panic-stricken, astounded, most frequently in aorist 2 and perfect (present, [[ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 159.10), κατεπλήγη φίλον ἦτορ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.31; -πλαγῆναι τῷ πολέμῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.81; τῷ πλήθει [prev\. author] 4.10; μὴ -πέπληχθε ἄγαν [prev\. author] 7.77 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with accusative, [[ πάνυ τοῦτ᾽ ἐπαινῶ καὶ -πλήττομαι 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus [same place]; τὴν ἀπειρίαν τὴν αὑτοῦ -πεπλῆχθαι Isocrates Orator [{5-6th c.BC}] “Epistulae” 4.11 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; μηδὲν -πλαγέντες τὸν Φίλιππον Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.185; -πεπλῆχθαι τὸν βίον [prev\. author] 37.43 codices; -πεπληγμένοι τὸν στόλον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; to be amazed at, [[ τὴν ἀπαθίαν τινῶν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Sto.Herc.” 339.7 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: later intransitive in perfect -πέπληγα, pluperfect -πεπλήγη [[2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Μιθριδάτειος” 19, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.22.2, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 13.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: especially in participle, [[ -πεπληγότες τὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων τάχος 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.25 ] Refs 1st c.BC+], etc.; τὸ περιδεὲς καὶ -πεπληγός abject terror, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Comparatio Pel.Marc.” 1. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]