Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κατῆμαι ‎(katêmai) (Ionic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /káθime/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /káθime/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /káθime/

Verb

κάθημαι • ‎(káthēmai)

1. to be seated
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.191
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.407
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.82
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.207
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.448
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.497
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.530
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 466
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.420
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 411
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.83
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.118
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.73
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.149
   • 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 315
   • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1084
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 773
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 328.C
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.54
   • Alciphron, Collected Works 3.27
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 55
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 266
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 394
   1. to be seated in court
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 18.13
      • 344 BCE – 343 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Philippic 3
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 208
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.85
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 35.C
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Theocrines 25
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 6.42
      • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 116
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.10.5
      • Hegesipp., Ἀδελφ. 1.29
   2. to sit still, sit quietly, sit idly, do nothing
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 16.264
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.76
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.45
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 380
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.403
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.134
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.124
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Reply to Philip 17
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.20
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 752
   3. to lead a sedentary, obscure life
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.133, (compare Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 919)
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 4.2
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.86
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timotheus 42, (compare Against Stephanus 1 33)
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Neaera 67
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 6.18
   4. (of people) to be settled
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.63
   5. (of things) to be set or placed
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 215.A
      • 5th century BC, Telecleides, Sterrhoi 2
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Mechanics 5.3

Inflection

The perfect functions as the verb's present tense.

References

• κάθημαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάθημαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάθημαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κάθημαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κάθημαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κάθημαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2521”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979