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κατακομ-ίζω ,
A.bring down, esp.from the inland to the coast, “σῖτον τῷ στρατεύματι” Th.6.88; <ὕλην> ποταμοῖς κ. Str.11.2.17, cf. OGI132.10 (Egypt, ii B.C.), Hdn.8.2.3 (Pass.), etc.:—Med., cause to be brought down, “ὡραῖα πλοίοις” Pl.Criti.118e.
2. bring into harbour, “ναῦν” D. 50.55; “ναῦν Ἀθήναζε” Id.56.27; εἰς τὸν Πειραιᾶ ib.20; bring home, “τριήρεις” Aeschin.2.71.
3. bring into a place of refuge, “κ. τὰ ἐλεύθερα σώματα καὶ τοὺς καρποὺς ἐν τῇ πόλει” Aen.Tact.10.3; “κ. γυναῖκας ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν” D.19.125; κ. τὰ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν Decr. ap. eund.18.38; “παῖδας καὶ γυναῖκας ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν εἰς τὰ τείχη” Lycurg.16, cf. D.S.12.39.
4. import, “κεράμου πανταχόθεν -ομένου” Ath.11.784c.
5. bury, prob. in Berl.Sitzb.1927.161 (Cyrene).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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