Καταλούῃ

[Meaning] you spend. Aristophanes [writes]: "you wash away my life as if I were dead". For it was the custom after the body was carried out to wash off the relatives of the dead person for the purpose of purification. Or [meaning] you spend on luxury. But now he calls superfluous [wealth] "life." Or [meaning] you spend on baths. From a metaphor of waters. They understand the prefix kata\ intensively, as in the [verb] katafagei=n ["to eat up"].¹