κατά

κατά, before γ sometimes κάγ, before δ κάδ, before π and φ κάπ, before ρ κάρ (and by some written in combination with its case, e. g. καγγόνυ, καδδύναμιν): down.—I. adv., down, utterly (here belong all examples of ‘tmesis’ so-called); κατὰ δάκρυ χέουσα, fig., κατὰ δ' ὅρκια πάτησαν, ‘under foot,’ Il. 4.157 ; κατὰ δ' ἅρματα ἄξω, break ‘to pieces;’ κατὰ ταῦρον ἐδηδώς, having devoured, stronger than ‘eaten,’ through the force of κατά, Il. 17.542; Πηλῆά γ' ὀίομαι ἢ κατὰ πάμπαν | τεθνάμεν, to be dead and gone, cf. καταθνήσκω, Il. 19.334; the appropriate case of a subst. may specify the relation of the adv., κατὰ δὲ νότιος ῥέεν ἱδρὼς | ὤμων καὶ κεφαλῆς (local gen.), Il. 11.811.—II. prep., (a) w. gen., down, down from, down over, κατ' οὐρανοῦ εἰλήλουθεν, Od. 7.199; κατ ὀφθαλμοῦ κέχυτ ἀχλύς, Il. 5.696; ἀμβροσίην καὶ νέκταρ ἐρυθρὸν | στάξε κατὰ ῥῖνῶν, ‘down through,’ ‘in through,’ Il. 19.39 ; κατ' ἄκρης, ‘from top to bottom,’ ‘utterly.’—(b) w. acc., down, down through, down into, κατὰ τεῖχος ἔβησαν, Il. 13.737; of motion not so vaguely as ἀνά, ‘up and down,’ but usually rather with reference to some definite end or purpose, δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ' αὐτοὺς.. ἐδίνευον κατὰ μέσσους, ‘among them.. down the centre,’ Od. 4.18 ; ναίειν κατὰ πόλιν, in particular places throughout the city, Il. 2.130; so, κατὰ γαῖαν, κατὰ πόντον, and simply local, κατὰ στῆθος, in the breast, met., κατὰ θῦμόν, ‘in the heart;’ transferred from the physical or local sense to other relations, distributive, according to, by, κατὰ φῦλα, κατὰ στίχας, so κατὰ σφέας, ‘by themselves;’ fitness, κατὰ θῦμόν, according to one's wish; κατὰ κόσμον, κατ' αἶσαν, κρομύοιο λοπὸν κάτα, ‘after the semblance’ of an onion-skin, Od. 19.233; purpose, κατὰ πρῆξιν, ‘on business’; κατὰ δαῖτα, ‘for a banquet,’ Il. 1.424.