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καται-βάτης [α^], ου, ὁ, a name of Zeus as
A.descending in thunder and lightning, Ar.Pax42, Clearch.9, Lyc.1370, IG2.1659b, 12(3).1360 (Thera), 1093 (Melos), BCH50.245 (Thasos), Ἀρχ.Ἐφ.1924.146 (Thess.), Paus.5.14.10, Corn.ND9: applied by Athenian flattery to Demetrius, Plu.Demetr.10; also κ. κεραυνός, σκηπτός, A.Pr.361, Lyc.382.
2. of Hermes, who led souls down to the nether world, Sch.Ar.Pax649.
3. ofἈχέρων, that to which one descends, downward, E.Ba.1360.
4. of a person, descending underground, Dam. Isid.131.
5. καταιβάται, οἱ, members of a thiasos of worshippers of Dionysus, Inscr.Magn.215a36.--In these senses the form καταβάτης never occurs; cf. καταιβάσιος, καταιβάτις, etc.
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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