καταβάλλειν (kataballein)

καταβάλλειν is an Ancient Greek form of καταβάλλω, meaning “throw down”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 16.2: … τε φόρους αὐτάς τε πόλεις, τὰς μὲν δεῖν, τὰς δʼ ἀναλύειν, λάϊνα τείχη, τὰ μὲν οἰκοδομεῖν, τὰ δʼ ἔπειτα πάλιν καταβάλλειν, σπονδάς, δύναμιν, κράτος, εἰρήνην, πλοῦτόν τʼ εὐδαιμονίαν τε. καὶ ταῦτα καιρὸς οὐκ ἦν οὐδʼ ἀκμὴ καὶ χάρις ἀν …

All forms of καταβάλλω (conjugation table)

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.