καταπτήσσω,
future -πτήξω (see. below): 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person dual Epic dialect aorist 2 [[ καταπτήτην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.136 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: poetry aorist participle [[ καταπτᾰκών Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Eumenides” 252 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (compare καταπλακών): perfect [[ κατέπτηκα Vetus Testamentum Graece redditum “Joshua” 2.24 ] Refs] (variant{-έπτηχε}), [[ 1st c.BC: Didymus Grammaticus in D. 11.25, 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Or.” 24.309b, or κατέπτηχα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.8, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Per.” 25, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.510; _Epic dialect_ ] Refs 4th c.BC+] participle καταπεπτηώς (see. below):—crouch, cower, especially from fear, [[ καταπτήτην ὑπ᾽ ὄχεσφι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.136; καταπτήξας ὑπὸ θάμνῳ 22.191; κατὰ δ᾽ ἔπτηξαν ποτὶ γαίῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.190; λιμῷ καταπεπτηυῖα {8-7th c.BC}: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 265 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: also in Prose, κατέπτηχε μέντοι ταῦτα πάντα νῦν D.[same place], compare [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.50; ταπεινοὶ -πτήξετε πρὸς τὸ μέλλον Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Aemilius Paulus” 27; διὰ τὸ μέγεθος [prev\. author] “Sull.” 7 ] Refs 1st c.BC+].
__2 with accusative, cower beneath, [[ ἐξουσίαν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 11.18; τὸ θεοῦ κράτος 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.677, compare 322, 2.600 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of a breach in a wall, [[ ἀπειλουμένην ὅσον οὔπω κατεπτηχέναι τὴν ἐπίκλυσιν 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 9.5 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+].