Attic [speakers] read it under one [word]. Aristophanes [writes]: "if it were to be hung from its feet head downwards".[1] Meaning kata\ kefalh=s ["down upon the head"]. To fall on [one's] head is said "head downwards" amongst Attic [speakers], not separately, but as one [word]. Pindar [writes]: "they bind them head downwards with chains."[2]
Agathias [writes]: "enduring from face down and falling head downwards to the sea, they died."[3]
And Aristophanes [writes]: "it would graze after throwing me head downwards".[4] Speaking about the dung-beetle.[5]