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MorphologyDictionary- Liddell-Scott-Jones: A Greek-English lexicon
- κᾰθά [θᾰ], Adv. for καθ' ἅ,
according as, just as,
IG12.90.43, 116.27, Men.Mon.551, PCair.Zen.188.8 (iii B.C.), Plb.3.107.10, LXXGe.7.9, etc.; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμόσ the (so to speak
) 'regular' pulse (a military metaphor), Archig. ap. Gal.8.626. II. also καθάπερ, Ion. κατάπερ, Philol.14, Democr.164, Hdt.1.182, al., Ar.Eq.8, Ec. 61, IG12.39.42, al., D.37.16, etc.: freq. in legal instruments, ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκησ PEleph.1.12 (iv B.C.), etc.: with a part., like ὡς, ἅτε, D.C.37.54 (nisi leg. καίπερ):—
strengthd., καθάπερ εἰ (Ion. κατάπερ εἰ, Hdt.1.170), like as if, exactly as
, Pl.Phlb.22e, 59e, al.; καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) D.23.41; καθάπερ ἂν εἰ Pl.Lg.684c, Arist.Ph.240b10, Plb. 3.32.2, etc.:—
μάχαιραν κ. like
a knife, Porph.Chr.31. Cf. καθό, καθώσ.
- William J. Slater: Lexicon to Pindar
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