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καταπλέω

katapleo

sail down

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

καταπλέω, Ion. καταπλώω Hdt. 2.93 codd.: aor. -έπλωσα Id. 1.2, al.:— A. sail down; i.e., 1. sail from the high sea to land, put in, ἔνθα κατεπλέομεν Od. 9.142: abs., Hdt. 6.97, 7.137, Lys. 28.5, etc.; ἐς Αἶαν Hdt. 1.2, cf. 8.132; ἐπὶ Ἑλλησπόντου ib.109,9.98; ἐπʼ Ἀρτεμίσιον Id. 7.195; τὰς ἐκ Πόντου ναῦς Ἀθήναζε κ. X. HG 5.1.28; ἕως ἂν δεῦρο -πλεύσωμεν Test. ap. D. 21.168; ἐνταῦθα κ. Id. 32.14; sail home, Lys. 21.3, Phoenicid. 2.3; νεωστὶ καταπεπλευκώς having lately come ashore, Pl. Euthd. 297c; of things, to be brought by sea, πυρὸς Ἀθήναζε -πλέων Thphr. CP 4.9.5; ἡ -πλέουσα ἀγορά App. Pun. 100. 2. sail down stream, [ἐς] τὸν Εὐφρήτην Hdt. 1.185; in Egypt, down the Nile, κ. εἰς τὴν πόλιν (sc. Alexandria) PMagd. 22.4 (iii B.C.), cf. PTeb. 58.44 (ii B.C.), etc.; of fish, swim down stream, κ. ἐς θάλασσαν Hdt. 2.93, cf. Arist. HA 598b16. II. sail back, Hdt. 1.165, 3.45, And. 2.13, Phld. Acad.Ind.p.102M., etc.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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