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Κατακαίνων · killing (κ 571) · Suda

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κ567katakasa, whore
κ568I exult over
κ569to grind roasted barley
κ570to kill
κ571killing
κ572to be lying down
κ573enough!
κ574to rail at, to revile
κ575misusing

Suda/Κ kappa/κ571

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Κατακαίνων

killing

Translated by David Whitehead27 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

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2 notes · 30 words

Translation

[Meaning someone who is] dispatching, striking. "The ones to hand [he was] killing, others striking, others he had frightened".¹
And Xenophon [writes]: "[they were] killing some and chasing down others".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κατακαίνων· ἀναιρῶν, πλήττων. τοὺς μὲν κατακαίνων ἐν χερσί, τοὺς δὲ πλήττων, τοὺς δὲ φοβήσας. καὶ Ξενοφῶν· τοὺς μὲν κατακαίνοντες, τοὺς δὲ καταδιώξαντες.

Betacode

*katakai/nwn: a)nairw=n, plh/ttwn. tou\s me\n katakai/nwn e)n xersi/, tou\s de\ plh/ttwn, tou\s de\ fobh/sas. kai\ *cenofw=n: tou\s me\n katakai/nontes, tou\s de\ katadiw/cantes.

Notes (2)

The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is present active participle, masculine nominative singular, of katakai/nw (kappa 570); cf. under epsilon 1093.
1Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable. ↩
2Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.5 (web address 1).

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

κ570Κατακαίνεινto kill[Meaning] to take away, to murder. "The bowman shot an arrow, his aim being good enough to kill as many men as he shot arrows". Eunapius says [this].

Neighbouring entries

κ569Κατακαχρύσαιto grind roasted barley κ570Κατακαίνεινto kill κ571Κατακαίνωνkilling κ572Κατακεκλίσθαιto be lying down κ573Κατακέλευσονenough!

Revision history3 revisions · last 31 Jan 2013

31 Jan 2013Revised — David Whitehead
27 May 2008tweaks — David Whitehead
27 May 2008added link, set status — Catharine Roth
27 May 2008Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κατακαίνων (Adler number kappa 571), trans. David Whitehead, 27 May 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/571

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗