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• kat'a-pan, n. the governor of Calabria and Apulia for the Byzantine emperor. [Acc. to Littré, from Gr. katepan[=o] t[=o]n axi[=o]mat[=o]n, 'he who is placed over the dignities.']

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson