- καθά
- κᾰθά [pron. full] [θᾰ], Adv. for καθ' ἅ,A according as, just as, IG12.90.43, 116.27, Men.Mon.551, PCair.Zen.188.8 (iii B.C.), Plb.3.107.10, LXXGe.7.9, etc.; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμός the (so to speak) 'regular' pulse (a military metaphor), Archig. ap. Gal.8.626.II also [full] καθάπερ, [dialect] Ion. [full] κατάπερ, Philol.14, Democr.164, Hdt.1.182, al., Ar.Eq.8, Ec. 61, IG12.39.42, al., D.37.16, etc.: freq. in legal instruments,
ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκης PEleph.1.12
(iv B.C.), etc.: with a part., like ὡς, ἅτε, D.C.37.54 (nisi leg. καίπερ):—strengthd., [full] καθάπερ εἰ ([dialect] Ion. κατάπερ εἰ, Hdt.1.170), like as if, exactly as, Pl.Phlb.22e, 59e, al.; [full] καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) D.23.41; [full] καθάπερἂν εἰ Pl.Lg.684c
, Arist.Ph.240b10, Plb. 3.32.2, etc.:—μάχαιραν κ. like a knife, Porph.Chr.31. Cf. καθό, καθώς.
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