καθεύδω

A. ἐκάθευδον Lys. 1.13,23, X. Oec. 7.11: fut. καθευδήσω Ar. Ec. 419, X. Cyr. 6.2.30, etc.: aor. ἐκαθεύδησα (not in Att.), Luc. Asin. 6; inf. καθευδῆσαι Hp Int. 12:— lie down to sleep, sleep, Il. 1.611, Od. 3.402, etc.; opp. ἀγρυπνέω, ἐγρήγορα, Thgn. 471, Pl. Phd. 71c, etc.; καλὸς νέκυς, οἷα καθεύδων Bion 1.71; κ. μάτην A. Ch. 881; νυκτὸς κ. to sleep by night, Pl. Phdr. 251e; κ. τὰς νύκτας to sleep all one's nights, Bato 4; μαλακῶς, σκληρῶς κ., Antiph. 187.6, Timocl. 16.2; of male and female, ἵνα τώ γε καθεύδετον ἐν φιλότητι Od. 8.313; κ. μετά τινος Pl. Smp. 219d: generally, pass the night, τὴν βουλὴν εἰς ἀκρόπολιν ἰέναι κἀκεῖ κ. And. 1.45; κ. ἐπὶ ξύλου roost, of a fowl, Ar. Nu. 1431; ἐκ τοῦ καθεύδοντος from a sleeping state, Pl. Phd. 72b.

II. metaph., lie asleep, lie idle, Χερί A. Ag. 1357, cf. X. HG 5.1.20, An. 1.3.11, D. 19.303; κ. τὸν βίον to be asleep all one's life, sleep away one's life, Pl. R. 404a; opp. ἐνεργεῖν, Arist. EN 1157b8; opp. προσέχειν τοῖς πράγμασι, Plu. Pomp. 15.

2. of things, lie still, be at rest, ἐλπίδες οὔπω κ. E. Ph. 634; καθεύδειν ἐᾶν ἐν τῇ γῇ κατακείμενα τείχη Pl. Lg. 778d: τοὺς νόμους ἐᾶν κ. Plu. Ages. 30.

3. of the sleep of death, καθεύδοντες ἐν τάφῳ LXX Ps. 87(88).6, cf. Da. 12.2, 1 Ep.Thess. 5.10.