καθήκω
Infl. ionic κατ-ήκω
Infl. fut. -ήξω
I. "to have come or gone down", esp. to fight, Aesch.
2. "to come down to, come or reach to", Hdt.
3. "to have come to" any one, καθῆκεν ἐς ἡμᾶς ὁ λόγος the turn of speaking "came" to us, Aeschin.
4. of Time, ὁ χρόνος καθήκει the time "is come", Xen.; ὅταν ἐκ τῶν νόμων καθήκῃ when "[the time]" appointed by the law "comes", Dem.
II. "to be meet, fit, proper", τοῦ καθήκοντος χρόνου Soph.; αἱ καθ. ἡμέραι "the regular, proper" days, Dem.
2. impers., καθήκει μοι "it belongs to" me, "beseems" me, c. inf., οἷς καθήκει ἀθροίζεσθαι whose "duty it is" to assemble, Xen.:—in part., τὸ καθῆκον, τὰ καθήκοντα, ionic τὰ κατήκοντα, "that which is meet, fit or proper, one's due or duty", Hdt., Xen.; also "the present state of things, circumstances", Hdt.