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κατακοιμ-ίζω ,
A.= κατακοιμάω 11 (for which it is a constant v.l.), lull to sleep, “τὴν φυλακήν” Hecat.33J.; “τὰ δυσυπνοῦντα τῶν παιδίων” Pl.Lg.790d, cf. Smp.223d (v.l. -κοιμήσαντ'), Luc.VH2.34,Asin.6: metaph., “κ. τὸν λύχνον” Phryn.Com.24; “ὀργάς” Com.Adesp.521; “τοὺς πολεμίους” Plu.2.346c:—Pass., go to sleep, Plb.3.67.2; of troublesome questions, “ἵνα . . ἀεὶ ἂν κατακοιμισθῶσιν” IG22.1121.26.
II. sleep through, τὴν φυλακήν sleep out one's watch, Hdt.9.93. Ael. NA1.15, al.; “τῆς ἡμέρας τὸ Χρησιμώτατον -κοιμίζουσα” X.Mem.2.1.30.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.93
    • Plato, Laws, 790d
    • Plato, Symposium, 223d
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.1.30
    • Theocritus, Idylls, 11
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.67.2
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.15
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