Κατωκάρα

Attic [speakers] read it under one [word]. Aristophanes [writes]: "if it were to be hung from its feet head downwards".¹ Meaning kata\ kefalh=s ["down upon the head"]. To fall on [one's] head is said "head downwards" amongst Attic [speakers], not separately, but as one [word].
Pindar [writes]: "they have been bound head downwards with chains."²
Agathias [writes]: "slipping on the declivity and falling headlong into the sea, they were perishing."³
And Aristophanes [writes]: "it would graze after throwing me head downwards".⁴ Speaking about the dung-beetle.⁵