καθά
katha
according as, just as
Appears 41 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
καθά [θᾰ], Adv. for καθʼ ἅ, A. according as, just as, 12.90.43, 116.27, Mon. 551, PCair.Zen. 188.8 (iii B.C.), 3.107.10, Ge. 7.9, etc.; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμός the (so to speak) ‘regular’ pulse (a military metaphor), ap. 8.626. II. also καθάπερ, Ion. κατάπερ, 14, 164, 1.182, al., Eq. 8, Ec. 61, IG 12.39.42, al., 37.16, etc.: freq. in legal instruments, ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκης PEleph. 1.12 (iv B.C.), etc.: with a part., like ὡς, ἅτε, 37.54 (nisi leg. καίπερ):—strengthd., καθάπερ εἰ (Ion. κατάπερ εἰ, 1.170), like as if, exactly as, Phlb. 22e, 59e, al.; καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) 23.41; καθάπερ ἂν εἰ Lg. 684c, Ph. 240b10, 3.32.2, etc.:—μάχαιραν κ. like a knife, Chr. 31. Cf. καθό, καθώς.
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