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κατατρέχω , aor. 1 inf. καταθρέξαι only in Hsch.: aor. 2
A.“κατέδρα^μον” Ar.Ec.961, etc.: pf. -δεδράμηκα [α^μ] X.HG4.7.6:—Pass., aor. inf. “καταδρα^μηθῆναι” Heph.Astr.1.21:—run down, Ar.l.c.; “ἀπὸ τῶν ἄκρων” Hdt.7.192; “κάτω” Id.3156; “ἐπὶ θάλατταν” X. An.7.1.20; “ἐπί τινας” Act.Ap.21.32.
2. of seamen or passengers by sea, run to land, disembark, X.HG5.1.12; “εἰς ἐμπόρια” Plb.3.91.2: metaph., κ. ξένιον ἄστυ come to a haven in . . , f.l. in Pi.N.4.23.
II. trans., run down, inveigh against, “τὴν Σπάρτην” Pl.Lg.806c, cf. Diog.Oen.12, D.C.50.2, etc.: more freq. c. gen., Phld.Vit.p.42 J., etc.; “κ. τῶν μάντεων” D.L.2.135; “τῶν συνόντων τοῖς δυνάσταις” D.C.61.10; “τῆς μέθης” Ath.1.1ce; “Ἀλκιβιάδου ὡς οἰνόφλυγος” Id.5.22oc, cf. A.D.Synt.100.19; κατὰ τῆς βουλῆς, κατὰ τῆς μοναρχίας, D.C.36.44, 66.13.
2. overrun, ravage, lay waste, “τῆς Σαλαμῖνος τὰ πολλά” Th.2.94, cf. 8.92, Dionys. Com.3.5, D.S.2.44, Luc.Alex.2, etc., oppress, “τοὺς γεωργούς” PTeb. 41.30 (ii B.C.).
3. run over, c. gen., “κὰδ δ᾽ ἄρα οἱ βλεφάρων βαρὺς ἔδραμεν ὕπνος” Theoc.22.204.
4. pursue, LXX Le.26.37.
5. hurry, Plu.2.512e.
6. slip down, of a bandage, Gal.18(1).829.
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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