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Headword: Καθηκούσαις
Adler number: kappa,80
Translated headword: descending
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Proceeding through and out.[1] Xenophon [writes]: "on rocks descending at that place".[2]
Greek Original:
Καθηκούσαις: διεκτρεχούσαις. Ξενοφῶν: ἐν πέτραις καθηκούσαις ἐπ' αὐτὸν τὸν τόπον.
Notes:
[1] Dative plural of this participle, extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.3.11 (which has "at that river": see web address 1). For the verb καθήκω in this same geographical sense of land reaching water cf. e.g. Herodotus 7.22.2, 7.130.1; Thucydides 2.27.2, 3.96.3.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 July 2001@03:50:10.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link) on 16 July 2001@14:41:56.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 17 September 2002@08:49:00.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 9 March 2008@10:52:19.
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