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|Definition=-ατος, τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[end]], [[boundary]], chiefly ''poet.'':<br><span class="bld">I</span> [[goal]] round which [[horse]]s and [[chariot]]s had to [[turn]] at [[race]]s, περὶ τέρμαθ' ἑλισσέμεν Il.23.309; <b class="b3">περὶ τ. βαλούσας, εὖ σχεθέειν περὶ τέρμα</b>, ib.462,466; <b class="b3">τέρματα θεῖναι</b> or τέρματα [[σημῆναι]], ib.333,358; ἔστασεν ἐν τέρμασιν ἀγῶνος Pi.''P.'' 9.114; <b class="b3">τέρμα δωδεκάγναμπτον</b>, i.e. [[doubled]] [[twelve]] [[time]]s, Id.''O.''3.33; <b class="b3">δρόμου τέρματα</b> dub. l. in S.''El.''686; <b class="b3">ἐξωτέρω ἀποκάμπτειν τοῦ τέρμα</b> Arist. ''Rh.''1409b23.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[mark set to show how far a quoit was thrown]], ἔθηκε δὲ τέρματ' Ἀθήνη Od.8.193.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., [[issue]], [[event]], A. ''Ag.''781,1177 (both lyr.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[end]], [[limit]], δολιχῆς τ. κελεύθου Id.''Pr.''286 (anap.), cf. 706, 823; <b class="b3">ποῦ τὸ τέρμα τῆς φυγῆς</b>; Id.''Eu.'' 422: pl., ὁδοῦ τέρματα Thgn.1166; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τέρμασι τοῖσι ἐκείνης</b> (''[[sc.]]'' <b class="b3">τῆς Εὐρώπης</b>) [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.54; <b class="b3">συνάγουσι τὰ τέρματα</b> (oftwo rivers) they contract their [[bounds]], i.e. draw together and so contract the space between them, Id.4.52: metaph., <b class="b3">πλούτου τέρμα</b> a [[limit]] to [[wealth]], Thgn. 227.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[end]], in point of time or distance, <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τέρμ' ἀφίκετο</b> reached the [[limit]], was at the [[end]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''48; <b class="b3">Ἑρμῆς σφ' ἄγει.. πρὸς αὐτὸτ</b>. Id.''El.''1397 (lyr.); βιότου τέρμα = the [[term]] or [[end]] of [[life]], [[death]], Simon. 85.13; <b class="b3">τέρμα βίου</b> or <b class="b3">τέρμα τοῦ βίου</b>, A.''Fr.''362, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1530 (troch.), E.''Alc.''643; <b class="b3">γήρως ἐσχάτοις πρὸς τέρμασιν</b> Id.''Andr.''1081; <b class="b3">τέρμα μόχθων, τέρμα πόνων, τέρμα ἄθλου</b>, A.''Pr.''100 (anap.), 186 (lyr.), 259; Σισύφου πέτρος ἀνήνυτος, οὗ τὰ τέρματα αὖθις ἄρχει πόνων Pl.''Ax.''371e; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τέρματι</b> [[at last]], A.''Eu.''633: also [[τέρμα]] abs., like [[τέλος]], Ps.-Phoc.138.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[culmination]], [[highest point]], [[goal]], <b class="b3">τέρμα ἀέθλων</b> [[prize]], Pi.''I.''4(3).85(67); κακῶν E.''Supp.'' 369 (lyr.); πρὸς τέρμασιν ὥρας [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Birds|Av.]]''705; τέρματα νίκης Archestr. ''Fr.''34.10; τέρμα τέχνης Parrhas. 2; <b class="b3">ὑγιείας ἀκόρεστον τέρμα</b> the [[bound]]s of [[health]] are [[insatiable]], A.''Ag.''1002 (lyr.); [[ἀγχόνη|ἀγχόνης]] τέρματα Id.''Eu.''746; <b class="b3">θανάτου τέρμα</b> E.''Hipp.''140 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[highest power]], [[supremacy]], <b class="b3">τέρμα Κορίνθου ἔχειν</b> to be [[sovereign]] of [[Corinth]], Simon.112; θεοὶ.. πάντων τέρμ' ἔχοντες E.''Supp.''617 (lyr.); <b class="b3">σωτηρίας γὰρ τέρμ' ἔχεις ἡμῖν μόνη</b> you are the [[arbiter]].., Id.''Or.''1343; <b class="b3">τέρμα τῆς σωτηρίας</b> [[final]] [[pledge]].., S.''OC''725; δαίμονες οἳ φιλίης τέρματ'.. ἔχετε ''AP''12.170 (Diosc.). (Cf. [[τέρμων]], [[τέρθρον]], Skt. tárati, tiráti '[[cross]], [[win through]], [[overcome]]', Lat. [[terminus]], [[trans]], [[intrare]].)