τέρμα: Difference between revisions

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