καθαιρέω
Infl. ionic κατ-
Infl. fut. ήσω
Infl. fut. 2 καθελῶ
Infl. aor2 καθεῖλον
Infl. inf. καθελεῖν
Infl. Pass., aor1 καθῃρέθην
Infl. perf. -ῄρημαι
I. "to take down", καθείλομεν ἱστία "we lowered" sail, Od.; κ. ἄχθος "to take" a load "down", i. e. off one's shoulders, Ar.:—Mid., καταιρεῖσθαι τὰ τόξα "to take down one's" bow, Hdt.
2. "to put down or close" the eyes of the dead, Hom.
3. of sorcerers, "to bring down", Lat. caelo deducere, σελήνην Ar., Plat.
4. κατά με πέδον γᾶς ἕλοι (in tmesi) may earth "swallow" me! Eur.
II. "to put down by force, destroy", Od., Trag.: simply "to kill, slay", Eur.
2. in a milder sense, "to put down, reduce", Hdt., Dem., etc.: "to depose, dethrone", Hdt.; κ. τὸ λῃστικόν "to remove" it "utterly", Thuc.
3. "to rase to the ground, pull down", τὰς πόλεις id=Thuc.; τῶν τειχῶν a part of the walls, Xen.
4. "to cancel, rescind", τὸ ψήφισμα Thuc.
5. as attic law-term, "to condemn", Soph.
6. "to reduce" in flesh, Plut.
III. "to overpower, seize", κὰδ δέ μιν ὕπνος ᾕρει (in tmesi) Od.; καθ. τινὰ ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ "to catch" in the act of folly, Soph.: c. gen. partis, κ. τῶν ὤτων "to seize by" the ears, Theocr.
IV. "to fetch down as a reward or prize", καθαιρεῖν ἀγῶνα or ἀγώνισμα Plut.: metaph. "to achieve", Pind.; so in Mid., φόνῳ καθαιρεῖσθ᾽, οὐ λόγῳ, τὰ πράγματα Eur.; in Pass., Hdt.
V. more rarely like the simple αἱρέω, "to take and carry off, seize", id=Hdt.