Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Κκ , κατα-κλίνω , κατα-κλύζω

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A.“-κλύσσω” Pi.O.10(11).10: pf. “κατακέκλυκα” PMagd.28.10 (iii B. C.):—deluge, inundate, “τὴν γῆν” Hdt. 2.13 (of the Nile), cf. 99 (Pass.), Pi.O.9.50, Th.3.89, Pl.Ti.22d, OGI 90.24 (Rosetta, ii B. C.):—Pass., PPetr.2p.15[= 3 p.xv] (iii B. C.), etc.; “ὑπ᾽ ὄμβρων -κλυζόμενος” Isoc.11.12; “κόσμος ὕδατι -κλυσθείς” 2 Ep.Pet. 3.6.

2. metaph., deluge, overwhelm, “τοίους γὰρ κατὰ κῦμα . . ἔκλυσεν” Archil.9.3; “τὴν Φρυγῶν πόλιν . . ἤλπισας κατακλύσειν δαπάναισιν” E.Tr. 995; “ἅπαντα . . κατακλύσει ποιήμασιν” Cratin.186; κ. ἀφθονίᾳ δίαιταν make life overflow with plenty, X.Oec.2.8; κατακλύσαι δεινῶν πόνων deluge with sufferings, E.Or.343 (lyr.); “εἰ καὶ μέλλει γέλωτι . . ὥσπερ κῦμα . . κατακλύσειν” Pl.R.473c:—Pass., ἀλλοδαπῶν κύματι φωτῶν -κλυσθῆναι, of a city, A.Th.1084 (anap.); “-κλυσθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ τοιούτου ψόγου ἢ ἐπαίνου” Pl.R.492c; “Χρυσίῳ -κεκλυσμένος” Plu.Dem.14; “-κλυσθέντα πλήθει κακῶν” Lib.Ep.5.1.

II. wash down or away, “κῦμα κ. ψᾶφον ἑλισσομέναν” Pi.O.10(11).10, cf. Thphr.CP3.22.3.

2. wash out, “τὰ ἴχνη τοῦ λαγώ” X.Cyn.5.4.

III. fill full of water, “τὴν πύελον” Ar. Pax843.

IV. clean out a bath, Gal.15.198.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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