κατέρχομαι

katerchomai

go down

Appears 9 times across Aristotle's works.

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Meteorology 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 12 347b34–349a11

348b15
Book II 1
Chapter 3 356b4–359b26

358b26
Rhetoric 2
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Book II 2
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33

1399b17
1399b17
History of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 16 494b19–496a3

495b19
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 13 473a15–474a24

474a5
Physiognomonics 1
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Chapter 3 807a31–808b10

808a24
Physics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 198b10–199b33

198b20
Politics 1
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Book V 1
Chapter 5 1304b19–1305a36

1304b34

Dictionary (LSJ)

κατέρχομαι, fut. κατελεύσομαι Od. 1.303, Hdt. 5.125, Arr. An. 6.12.3 (but in good Att. κάτειμι, as also κατῄειν is always used for the impf.): aor. κατήλῠθον or κατῆλθον, inf. κατελθεῖν; Dor. subj. κατένθῃ Berl.Sitzb. 1927.165 (Cyrene); Arc. part. κατενθών, pf. part. κατηνθηκώς, v. καθέρπω II: pf. κατελήλυθα SIG 675.24 (ii B.C.):—A. go down, Οὐλύμποιο κατήλθομεν Il. 20.125, etc.; τινʼ ἀθανάτων ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος . . κατελθέμεν 6.109; go down to the grave, κ. Ἄϊδος εἴσω, Ἄϊδόσδε, ib. 284, 7.330; εἰς Ἅιδου E. HF 1101, etc.: rarely c. acc., τίς . . σκότου πύλας ἔτλη κατελθεῖν; Ar. Fr. 149.2 (parod.); from high land to the coast, ἐπὶ νῆα θοὴν κατελεύσομαι Od. 1.303; from country to town, 11.188; down the Nile, εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν PLille 3.80(iii B.C.), etc. 2. of things, κατερχομένης ὑπὸ πέτρης by the descending rock, Od. 9.484, 541; of a river, κατέρχεται ὁ Νεῖλος πληθύων comes down in flood, Hdt. 2.19; κατελθόντος αἰφνιδίου τοῦ ῥεύματος Th. 4.75. 3. κ. εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα, Lat. descendere in certamen, S.E. M. 7.324. 4. c. acc., come to a place, ὑμέτερον δῶ Od. 24.115; ἀφθονία κατελήλυθε τὴν πόλιν Lyd. Mag. 3.76. 5. of property, pass to, PRein. 42.28 (i/ii A.D.), POxy. 1704.5(iii A.D.). II. come back, return, esp. come back from exile, Hdt. 4.4, al., A. Ag. 1647, Ch. 3, Eu. 462, S. OC 601, Ar. Ra. 1165, 1167, Pl. Ap. 21a, OGI 90.20 (Rosetta, ii B.C.), etc.; φυγὰς κατελθών S. Ant. 200; ὃς ἂν κατέλθῃ τήνδε γῆν E. IT 39: in pass. sense, ὑπʼ ὀλιγαρχίας κατελθεῖν to be brought back by . . , Th. 8.68; cf. κάτειμι II, καθέρπω II.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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