καταβῆναι (katabenai)

καταβῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of καταβαίνω, meaning “go down, come down”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.20.1: γνώμῃ δὲ τοιᾷδε λέγεται τὸν Ἀρχίδαμον περί τε τὰς Ἀχαρνὰς ὡς ἐς μάχην ταξάμενον μεῖναι καὶ ἐς τὸ πεδίον ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἐσβολῇ οὐ καταβῆναι·

Aesop, Fables 302: Νεανίσκος τις ἐφʼ ἵππον ἀνέβη μαινόμενον. Αρπάσας δὲ αὐτὸν ἔφερεν ὁ ἵππος· ὁ δʼ οὐκ ἔτι καταβηναι τοῦ ἵππου θέοντος ἐδύνατο. Καί τις ἀπαντήσας ἠρώτησεν αὐτὸν “ποίαν ἄπεισιν;“ Ὁ δʼ εἶπεν· “ὅποι ἂν τούτῳ δοκῇ, …

All forms of καταβαίνω (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.