κατα-σβέννῡμι
or κατασβεννύω, Ionic dialect aorist infinitive -σβῶσαι [[3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 5.39 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—put out, quench, [[ κατέσβεσε θεσπιδαὲς πῦρ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.381, compare 16.293 (tmesis), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Or.” 697, etc.: _metaphorically_, ἔστιν θάλασσα, τίς δέ νιν κατασβέσει] Refs 8th c.BC+]; who shall dry it up? [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” 958, compare “Th.” 584; κ. βοήν, ἔριν] Refs 4th c.BC+], quell noise, strife, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Aj.” 1149, “OC” 422; ἀνομίαν 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 25.40 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; τὰς ἡδονάς Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Leges” 838b; τὴν δυσχέρειαν [prev\. author] “Prt.” 334c; τὴν ταραχήν Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.55; Χολήν 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus ] Refs 6th c.BC+] [same place]; κ. τὰ τραύματα heal them, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMar.” 11.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II passive, future -σβήσομαι (see. below), with aorist 2 and perfect active, go out, be quenched, καιόμενον τὸν Χρυσὸν κατασβῆναι (aorist 2) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.5; κατασβεσθῆναι τὴν πυρήν [prev\. author] 1.87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ κάνθαρος (i. e. the Sun) -σβήσεται [[“PMag.Lend.V.” 2.18 ] Refs]: metaphorically, [[ κλαυμάτων πηγαὶ.. κατεσβήκασι Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Agamemnon” 888 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of tumours, [[ κατέσβη 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατασβεννύμενος, of passion, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” 411c; κατασβεσθεὶς ταῖς ἐλπίσιν Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] 2.168f ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the wind, [[ [prev\. author] “Tim.” 19. ] Refs]