A.to be held back, checked, “θρασὺς καὶ βδελυρὸς καὶ οὐδὲ κ. ἔτι” D. 21.2, cf. Plu.Fab.10, Pomp.66; τῶν πραγμάτων οὐκέτι πολλοῖς ὄντων καθεκτῶν since power could not be retained in the hands of many, Id.Brut.47; ἐν τῷ κ. εἶναι to contain oneself, Philostr.Im.2.6. Adv. οὐ -τῶς so as not to be restrained, “μάχεσθαι” Id.Her.10.5.
καθεκ-τός , ή, όν, (κατέχω)
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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