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καθά

katha

according as, just as

Appears 581 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

καθά [θᾰ], Adv. for καθʼ ἅ, A. according as, just as, IG 12.90.43, 116.27, Men. Mon. 551, PCair.Zen. 188.8 (iii B.C.), Plb. 3.107.10, LXXGe. 7.9, etc.; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμός the (so to speak) ‘regular’ pulse (a military metaphor), Archig. ap. Gal. 8.626. II. also καθάπερ, Ion. κατάπερ, Philol. 14, Democr. 164, Hdt. 1.182, al., Ar. Eq. 8, Ec. 61, IG 12.39.42, al., D. 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, D.C. 37.54 (nisi leg. καίπερ):—strengthd., καθάπερ εἰ (Ion. κατάπερ εἰ, Hdt. 1.170), like as if, exactly as, Pl. Phlb. 22e, 59e, al.; καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) D. 23.41; καθάπερ ἂν εἰ Pl. Lg. 684c, Arist. Ph. 240b10, Plb. 3.32.2, etc.:—μάχαιραν κ. like a knife, Porph. Chr. 31. Cf. καθό, καθώς.
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