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catabasis

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catabasis [kəˈtæbəsɪs]
n pl -ses [-ˌsiːz]
1. a descent or downward movement
2. (Medicine / Pathology) the decline of a disease
catabatic  [ˌkætəˈbætɪk] adj

catabasis
the tapering-off of a disease. — catabatic, adj.
See also: Disease and Illness
anabasis, catabasis - An anabasis is a military expedition and a catabasis is the retreat of an army.
See also related terms for retreat.


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Death is so pervasive a theme at the Cena that Bodel likens Trimalchio's house to an underworld populated by dead ex-slaves, a place that Encolpius and the others enter 'as if on a catabasis.
 
 
 
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