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===substantive===

[[sharp]] [[end]] of [[anything]]: Ar. and V. [[ἀκμή]], ἡ ([[Euripides]], ''[[Supplices]]'' 318).

[[point of a spear]]: P. and V. [[λόγχη]], ἡ (Plat., ''Lach.'' 183D).

[[point of an arrow]]: V. [[γλωχίς]], ἡ.

[[goad]]: P. and V. [[κέντρον]], τό.

[[sharp point of rock]]: V. [[στόνυξ]], ὁ (Eur., ''[[Cyclops]]'').

[[since the land about Cynossema has a conformation coming to a sharp point]]: P. [[τοῦ χωρίου τοῦ περὶ τὸ Κυνὸς σῆμα ὀξεῖαν καὶ γωνιώδη τὴν περιβολὴν ἔχοντος]] (Thuc. 8, 104).

[[cape]]: P. and V. [[ἄκρα]], ἡ, P. [[ἀκρωτήριον]], τό, V. [[ἀκτή]], ἡ, [[προβλής]], ὁ, Ar. and V. [[ἄκρον]], τό, [[πρών]], ὁ.

[[meaning]]: P. [[διάνοια]], ἡ; see [[meaning]].

[[lead from the point]]: P. [[ἀπάγειν ἀπὸ τῆς ὑποθεσέως]] (Dem. 416), or simply P. and V. [[πλανᾶν]].

[[miss the point]]: P. and V. [[πλανᾶσθαι]].

[[beside the point]]: P. [[ἔξω τοῦ πράγματος]] (Dem. 1318), Ar. and P. [[ἔξω τοῦ λόγου]].

[[to the point]]: P. [[πρὸς λόγον]].

[[there is no point in]]: P. [[οὐδὲν προὔργου ἐστί]] (with infin.).

a [[case in point]]: P. and V. [[παράδειγμα]], τό.

[[question in discussion]]: P. and V. [[λόγος]], ὁ.

[[disputed points]]: P. [[τὰ διαφέροντα]], [[τὰ ἀμφίλογα]].

[[it is a disputed point]]: P. [[ἀμφισβητεῖται]].

[[the chief point]]: P. [[τὸ κεφάλαιον]].

[[a fresh point]]: P. and V. [[καινόν τι]].

[[I hear this is his chief point of defence]]: P. ἀκούω . . . τοῦτο μέγιστον ἀγώνισμα εἶναι (Lys. 137, 8<).

[[highest point]], [[zenith]]: P. and V. [[ἀκμή]], ἡ.

[[be at its highest point]], v.: P. also V. [[ἀκμάζειν]].

[[carry one's point]]: P. and V. [[νικᾶν]], [[κρατεῖν τῇ γνώμῃ]].

[[make a point]], [[score a point]] (in an [[argument]]): P. and V. [[λέγειν τι]].

herein you give us a [[point]] ([[advantage]]) as in [[draught]]s: V. [[ἓν μεν τοδ' ἡμῖν ὥσπερ ἐν πεσσοῖς δίδως κρεῖσσον]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Supplices]]'' 409).

[[turning point in a racecourse]]: P. and V. [[καμπή]], ἡ.

Met., [[crisis]]: P. and V. [[ἀκμή]], ἡ, [[ἀγών]], ὁ, [[ῥοπή]], ἡ; see [[crisis]].

[[to make known the country's weak points]]: P. [[διδάσκειν ἃ πονηρῶς ἔχει τῶν πραγμάτων]] (Lys. 143, 7).

[[strong points]]: P. [[τὰ ἰσχυρότατα]] (Thuc. 5, 111).

[[weak points]]: P. [[τὰ σαθρά]] (Dem. 52).

[[the weak point in the walls]]: V. [[τὸ νόσουν τειχέων]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenissae]]'' 1097).

[[point of view]]: P. and V. [[γνώμη]], ἡ, [[δόξα]], ἡ.

[[point of conscience]]: P. and V. [[ἐνθύμιον]], τό.

[[at this point]]: P. and V. [[ἐνθάδε]].

[[from that point]]: P. and V. [[ἐντεῦθεν]], [[ἐνθένδε]].

[[up to this point]]: P. [[μέχρι]] [[τούτου]].

[[I wish to return to the point from which I digressed into these subjects]]: P. [[ἐπανελθεῖν ὁπόθεν εἰς ταῦτα ἐξέβην βούλομαι]] (Dem. 298).

[[I return to the point]]: P. [[ἐκεῖσε ἐπανέρχομαι]] (Dem. 246).

[[in one point perplexity has assailed me]]: V. [[ἔστιν γὰρ ᾗ ταραγμὸς ἐμπέπτωκέ μοι]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Hecuba]]'' 857).

[[be on the point of]], [[be about to]]: P. and V. [[μέλλειν]] (infin.).

[[whom I am on the point of seeing killed]]: V. ὃν . . . ἐπ' ἀκμῆς εἰμὶ [[κατθανεῖν]] [[ἰδεῖν]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Helen]]'' 896).

[[make a point of]], [[see to it that]]: P. [[ἐπιμέλεσθαι ὅπως]] (fut. indic. or aor. subj.).

===verb intransitive===

[[sharpen]]: Ar. and P. [[ἀκονᾶν]] (Xen.), Ar. and V. [[θήγειν]].

[[sharpen at the end]]: V. [[ἐξαποξύνειν]] (Eur., ''[[Cyclops]]'').

[[direct]]: P. and V. [[τείνειν]].

[[point out]] or [[point to]]: P. and V. [[δεικνύναι]], [[ἐπιδεικνύναι]], [[ἀποδεικνύναι]], V. [[ἐκδεικνύναι]]. Ar. and P. [[φράζειν]]; see [[show]].

[[make known]]: P. and V. [[διδάσκειν]].

V. intrans. [[be directed]], [[tend]]: P. and V. [[τείνειν]], [[φέρω]], [[φέρειν]], [[νεύειν]]; see [[tend]].

[[it is impossible that the oracle points to this, but to something else more important]]: Ar. [[οὐκ ἔσθ' ὅπως ὁ χρησμὸς εἰς τοῦτο ῥέπει ἀλλʼ εἰς ἕτερόν τι μεῖζον]] (Pl. 51).

[[the cruel violence to his eyes was the work of heaven to point the moral to Greece]]: V. [[αἱ θ' αἱματουργοὶ δεργμάτων διαφθοραί θεῶν σόφισμα κἀπίδειξις Ἑλλάδι]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenissae]]'' 870).
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