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καθήκω

καθήκω, to have come; to suit, to belong to, be one’s duty

καθήκω, Ion. κατήκω, (v. ἥκω)
  • come or go down, esp. to fight, A. Ch. 455 (lyr.).
      • 2 come down to, reach to, ἐς θάλασσαν Hdt. 7.22, 130; ἐπὶ θάλ. Id. 2.32, 5.49, Th. 2.27; πρὸς τὸν Μηλιακὸν κόλπον Id. 3.96; κέρκος . . εἰς λεπτὸν καθήκουσα tapering away, Arist. HA 503a20: metaph., of descent, ὃ [γένος] εἰς αὐτὸν κ. Arr. An. 1.11.8.
      • 3 come in due course to any one, καθῆκεν ἐς ἡμᾶς ὁ λόγος the turn of speaking came to us, Aeschin. 2.25; παρὰ τετάρτην ἡμέραν ἑκάστῃ σημαίᾳ καθήκειν τὴν λειτουργίαν Plb. 6.33.9, cf. PCair.Zen. 218.24 (iii B.C.); τῆς βολῆς καθηκούσης ἐς αὐτόν Plu. Alc. 2; ἐν τῷ ξυμποσίῳ . . ἐπὶ τὸν Θεσμόπολιν καθῆκε τὸ σκῶμμα Luc. Merc.Cond. 34.
      • 4 of Time, ὁπότε καθήκοι ὁ χρόνος X. HG 4.7.2; ὅταν οἱ χρόνοι καθήκωσι Arist. HA 591a8; πρότερον ἢ τὴν ὥραν καθήκειν PRev.Laws 41.14 (iii B.C.); in part., τοῦ καθήκοντος χρόνου the normal time, S. OT 75, D. 4.35, cf. Aeschin. 3.126; αἱ κ. ἡμέραι the regular, proper days, D. 59.80; ἐν τῇ κ. ὥρᾳ Arist. HA 568a17; ἐν τοῖς κ. καιροῖς ib. 573a30; of events, ἑορτῆς εἰς τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκείνας καθηκούσης as the festival fell on those days, Plu. Fab. 18, cf. Plb. 4.7.1; ἐκκλησίαν ποιῆσαι, ὅταν ἐκ τῶν νόμων καθήκῃ when it is legally due, D. 19.185; ἡ κ. σύνοδος or ἐκκλησία, Plb. 4.14.1, 1.15.8, etc.
    • II to be meet, fit, proper, τοῖς κ. [νομίμοις] Arist. Pol. 1325a13; τὰς ἐσθῆτας τὰς κ. ἀεὶ ταῖς περιθεταῖς suiting them, Plb. 3.78.3; ὁ καθήκων ἐκ τῶν νομίμων ἀριθμός a quorum, D.C. 39.30; also καθῆκόν ἐστιν αὐτὸν ἐπαινεῖσθαι Inscr.Prien. 114.32 (i B.C.).
      • 2 impers., καθήκει μοι it belongs to me, is my duty, c. inf., οἷς καθήκει ἁθροίζεσθαι X. An. 1.9.7, cf. Cyr. 8.1.4, etc.: in later writers, impf. καθῆκε in pres. sense, it is meet, proper, οὐδʼ ἅψασθαι καθῆκέ τινων Aristeas 149; οὐ κ. αὐτὸν ζῆν Act.Ap. 22.22: freq. in part., τὰ καθήκοντα oneʼs due or duty, X. Cyr. 1.2.5; τὰ κατήκοντα Σπαρτιήτῃσι Hdt. 7.104; ποιεῖν τὸ κ. Men. 575: esp. in Stoic philos. (from signf. I.3 acc. to D.L. 7.108, cf. κατά B. I.3), περὶ τοῦ κ., title of work by Zeno, cf. Stoic. 1.55, etc.: freq. in pl., ib. 3.30, etc.; μὴ κ. unbecoming, Ep.Rom. 1.28.
      • 3 τὰ κατήκοντα the present crisis, Hdt. 1.97, 5.49; τὰ κ. πρήγματα Id. 8.19, 40, 102.
        • b τὰ καθήκοντα the payments due, UPZ 42.15 (ii B.C.); τὴν -ουσαν ἡμῖν δίδοσθαι σύνταξιν τῶν δεόντων ib. 6.
      • 4 Adv. pres. part. καθηκόντως fittingly, properly, Epicur. Ep. 2 p.53 U., OGI 90.28 (Rosetta, ii B.C.), Plb. 5.9.6, v.l. in D.S. 1.93; πρός τι Porph. Abst. 1.43; consistently with duty, Stoic. 3.188, Plu. Virt.mor. 2.448e; appropriately, c. dat., τῷ τόπῳ Aristeas 81; κ. ἔχειν πρός τι Id. 87.
    • III τὸ καθῆκον the precise proportion, Thphr. Lap. 46.

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