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καταλείπω , later καταλιμπάνω (q.v.), Ep. also καλλείπω Il.10.238: fut.
A.“καλλείψω” 14.89: aor. “κάλλι^πον” 12.92: aor. 1 subj. “καλλείψῃς” Q.S.10.299; part. “καλλείψας” Nonn.D.32.130; “καταλείψας” Luc. DMeretr.7.3; Ion. iterat. καταλίπεσκε （κατελίπεσκε, καταλειπέεσκε codd.) Hdt.4.78: pf. “-λέλοιπα” Ar.Lys.736:—Med., fut. καταλείψομαι (in pass. sense) X.An.5.6.12: aor. 2 “-ελιπόμην” Hdt.3.34, Pl. Smp.209d (in pass. sense, Berl.Sitzb.1927.161 (Cyrene)):—Pass., fut. “καταλειφθήσομαι” Isoc.15.7, 17.1:—leave behind, “πὰρ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὄχεσφιν ἄλλον . . κάλλιπεν” Il.12.92; esp. of persons dying or going into a far country, “κὰδ δέ με Χήρην λείπεις ἐν μεγάροισι” 24.725; “οὖρον . . κατέλειπον ἐπὶ κτεάτεσσιν” Od.15.89; “οἷόν μιν Τροίηυδε κιὼν κατέλειπεν Ὀδυσσεύς” 17.314; so later, “τὴν στρατιὴν καταλίπεσκε ἐν τῷ προαστίῳ” Hdt.4.78; “φύλακον κ. τινά” Id.1.113, cf. 2.103:—Med., καταλείπεσθαι παῖδας leave behind one, Pl.Smp.l.c., cf. Hdt.3.34, etc.:— Pass., to be left, remain behind, “κατελέλειπτο ἐν Πέρσῃσι” Hdt.1.209, cf. 7.170, X.An.5.6.12: c. gen., [στρατὸς] καταλελειμμένος τοῦ ἄλλου στρατοῦ a force left behind the rest, Hdt.9.96.
2. bequeath, [τόξον] “παιδὶ κάλλιπ᾽ ἀποθνῄσκων” Od.21.33: metaph., “ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ὀδύνας τε γόους τε κάλλιπεν” 1.243, cf. 11.279; “δόκησιν ἰσχύος καὶ ξυνέσεως ἐς τὸ ἔπειτα” Th.4.18; “τοῖς θρέψασι λύπας” Lys.2.70; παισὶν αἰδῶ οὐ Χρυσὸν κ. Pl.Lg.729b: c. inf., εἰ καταλείψει μηδὲ ταφῆναι not enough to be buried with, Ar.Pl.556:—Pass., [Χρήματα] “καταλειφθέντα” Is.1.45.
b. κ. διαθήκας leave a will (when going on service), Id.9.14.
3. Med., leave in a certain state, “κόλπον βαθὺν καταλιπόμενος τοῦ κιθῶνος” Hdt.6.125.
II. forsake, abandon, οὕτω δὴ μέμονας Τρώων πόλιν . . καλλείψειν; Il.14.89, cf. 22.383; πολλοὺς καταλείψομεν we shall leave many upon the field, 12.226; “ὤ μοι, εἰ μέν κε λίπω κάτα τεύχεα” 17.91; “κὰδ δέ κεν εὐχωλὴν Πριάμῳ καὶ Τρωσὶ λίποιεν Ἀργείην Ἑλένην” 2.160: c. inf., “κάλλιπεν οἰωνοῖσιν ἕλωρ καὶ κύρμα γενέσθαι” Od.3.271; σχεδίην ἀνέμοισι φέρεσθαι κ. 5.344; “μέλη . . θηρσὶν βοράν” E.Supp.46 (lyr.); “μή ποτ᾽ ἐμὸν κατ᾽ αἰῶνα λίποι θεῶν πανάγυρις” A. Th.219; “μή με καταλίπῃς μόνον” S.Ph.809; “οἰκίας τε καὶ ἱερά” Th. 2.16; πατέρας καὶ ξυγγενεῖς ἀτίμους κ. Id.3.58; κ. τὴν δίαιταν not to appear at the trial, Test. ap. D.21.93.
2. let drop, give up, “τὰ αὑτῶν ἔργα” X.Cyn.3.10, cf. 10.15; “εἰ ἐνταῦθα -λίποιμι τὸν λόγον” Isoc. 9.33.
III. leave remaining, “ὀκτὼ μόνον” X.An.6.3.5 codd.; κ. ἄφοδον leave an exit, ib.4.2.11:—Med., “κ. στενὴν διέξοδον” Pl.Ti.73e; -λείπεσθαι ἑαυτῷ reserve for oneself, X.Mem.1.1.8; “ὑπερβολὴν οὐ κ. Χαρᾶς” Plb.16.23.4, cf. 16.25.6:—Pass., to be left, remain, τίς ἔτι ἡδονὴ -λείπεται; Lys.2.71, cf. Ep.Hebr.4.1, etc.; of the remainder in calculations, PPetr.3p.326, al. (iii B.C.), Nicom.Ar.1.13.13, etc.: impers. καταλείπεται c. inf., it remains that . . , τὸν κόσμον κ. ἀθάνατον εἶμεν Aristaeusap.Stob.1.20.6, cf. D.Chr.37.16, etc.; -λείπεται μάχη yet remains to be fought, X.Cyr.2.3.11.
2. leave alone, opp. περιαιρέω, Id.Mem.3.2.4, cf. Arist.Pol.1342a34.
b. leave undisputed, “τὰς παραλλαγάς” Phld.Sign.24: hence, admit, allow the truth of a doctrine, Id.Po.5.34, Demetr.Lac.Herc.1055.13:—Pass., Phld.Piet. 80.
c. omit, c. inf., Alex.Aphr.in SE118.10.
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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