καθʼ (kath)

καθʼ is an Ancient Greek form of κατά, meaning “down; along, according to (+gen./acc.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 6,409 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.168: ἐν ποταμῷ καθʼ ἕλος λελοχημένοι ἠγορόωντο.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.2: … κ ἔχοντες οὐδὲ γῆν φυτεύοντες, ἄδηλον ὂν ὁπότε τις ἐπελθὼν καὶ ἀτειχίστων ἅμα ὄντων ἄλλος ἀφαιρήσεται, τῆς τε καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀναγκαίου τροφῆς πανταχοῦ ἂν ἡγούμενοι ἐπικρατεῖν, οὐ χαλεπῶς ἀπανίσταντο, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ οὔτε μεγέθει π …

Euripides, Cyclops 457: ἐς πῦρ καθήσω· κᾆθ’, ὅταν κεκαυμένον

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.