κατʼ (kat)

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

Found 5,802 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.371: σκάπτον δʼ αἶψα κατʼ εὖρος ὅσον περιβάλλετο χῶρον,

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5.3: ἐλῄζοντο δὲ καὶ κατ’ ἤπειρον ἀλλήλους.καὶ μέχρι τοῦδε πολλὰ τῆς Ἑλλάδος τῷ παλαιῷ τρόπῳ νέμεται περί τε Λοκροὺς τοὺς Ὀζόλας καὶ Αἰτωλοὺς καὶ Ἀκαρνᾶνας καὶ τὴν ταύτῃ ἤπειρον. τό τε σιδηροφορεῖσθαι τούτοις τοῖς ἠπειρώταις ἀπὸ τῆς παλαιᾶς λῃστείας ἐμμεμένηκεν·

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.144: … εἰς αὐτὸν ἡμῶν ἐστιν οὕτως ἔχον· ἔκλυον, Μενέδημε, τεὸν μόρον, ὡς ἑκὼν ἀπέσβης ἐν ἡμέρῃσιν ἑπτὰ μηδὲν ἐσθίων. κᾆτʼ ἔργον ἔρεξας Ἐρετρικόν, ἀλλʼ ὅμως ἄνανδρον· ἀψυχίη γὰρ ἡγεμὼν ἔπειγέ σε. Καὶ οὗτοι μὲν οἱ Σωκρατικοὶ καὶ οἱ ἀ …

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.