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κατοικέω

κατοικέω, to settle; to inhabit

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κατοικοῦσʼ present active participle masculine dative plural, present active participle neuter dative plural, present active indicative 3rd plural, present active participle feminine nominative singular, present active participle feminine vocative singular of κατοικέω

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κατοικ-έω,
  • settle in, colonize, πόλιν Hdt. 7.164; γῆν E. Med. 10; τοῖς κατοικεῖν ἐθέλουσι τὰν πόλιν Decr.Byz. ap. D. 18.91: generally, inhabit, τόπους S. Ph. 40; τὴν Ἀσίαν SIG 557.17 (Magn. Mae., iii B.C.), etc.:— Pass., to be dwelt in or inhabited, opp. κατοικίζομαι (to be just founded), Arist. Pol. 1266b2.
      • 2 abs., settle, dwell, ζητοῦσα . . ποῦ κατοικοίης S. OC 362; ἵνα χρὴ κατοικεῖν Ar. Av. 153; ἐν δόμοις, ἐν ἄστεσι, E. Hel. 1651, Pl. Lg. 666e, etc.; αὐτόθι Th. 3.34; ἐν μοναρχίᾳ Isoc. 1.36; ἐπὶ γῆς Apoc. 3.10; esp. of non-citizens, Ἐφέσιοι καὶ οἱ -οῦντες SIG 352.4 (Ephesus, iv B.C.). cf. 633.67 (Milet., ii B.C.):— pf. and plpf. Pass., to have been planted or settled, κατὰ κώμας Hdt. 1.96, cf. 2.102; κ. νῆσον, τὴν μεσόγειαν, Id. 4.8, Th. 1.120.
    • II administer, govern, οἱ τὰς πόλεις -οῦντες Phld. Rh. 2.225 S.:—more freq. in Pass., κατῴκηνται καλῶς, of Athens, S. OC 1004; ὀρθῶς κ., of Sparta, Pl. Lg. 683a.
    • III intr. of cities, lie, be situated, ἐν τοῖς πεδίοις ib. 677c, cf. 682c: also c. acc. loci, τὰς τὴν Ἀσίαν κατοικούσας which are situated in . ., Isoc. 5.123.

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