ἀτρεκής
Ῥῦσέ με δεινῶν νοσημάτων, ἱερώτατε, ἱερωσύνην συναρμόσας ἐν χαρᾷ και ἐπιστήμης τὸ πολύτιμον κεφάλαιον → Deliver me from grievous afflictions, most holy one, joining sanctity together in joy with the precious fountainhead of knowledge
English (LSJ)
ές,
A strict, precise, exact, ἀλάθεια, καιρός, Pi.N.5.17, P.8.7; ἀριθμός Hdt. 7.187; δίαιτα Hp.Mochl.42; βιότου ἀ. ἐπιτηδεύσεις over-nice, precise, E.Hipp.261; τὸ ἀ., = ἀτρέκεια, φράσαι, εἰπεῖν τὸ ἀ., Hdt.5.9,7.60; τὸ -έστερον τούτων more precise details, Id.5.54; τὸ -έστατον Id.7.214; ἐγγὺς τοῦ -εστάτου ἥκειν Hp.VM12; rarely of persons, exact, strict, Ἑλλανοδίκας Pi.O.3.12. 2 sure, certain, ποδὶ ἀτρεκέϊ Id.N.3.41; ἀ. δόξα E.Hipp.1115 (lyr.). II Hom. has only Adv. ἀτρεκέως (neut. as Adv., ἀτρεκὲς . . βαλών accurately, Il.5.208 (expld. as Adj. by Eust. ad loc.); δεκὰς ἀ. precisely, Od.16.245): mostly with the Verbs ἀγορεύειν, καταλέξαι, tell truly, exactly, Il.2.10, Od.1.169, etc.; ἀ. μαντεύσομαι 17.154; ἀ. ἔφρασεν IG3.716; ἀ. ὀλίγοι Thgn. 636; freq. in Hdt., ἀ. εἰπεῖν 1.57,al.; εἰδέναι 1.209, al.; ἐπίστασθαι 3.130; ἐκμαθεῖν 7.10.ή; διακρῖναι 1.172; διασημῆναι 5.86; φαίνειν 2.49; ἀ. ἀριθμεῖσθαι Hp.Prog.20; ἀ. ὅμοιον precisely similar, Diog. Apoll.5. 2 ἀ. ἀποκαυλισθεῖσα broken straight across, opp. παραμηκέως, Hp.Art.14. 3 neut. as Adv. (cf. supr. 11.1), τὸ δ' ἀτρεκὲς ὄλβιος οὐδείς Thgn.167; ἐπ' ἀτρεκές IG9(1).880(Corc.).—The word and its derivs. are rare in Trag. and not found in Att. Prose, ἀκριβής and its derivs. being used instead: freq. in Ion. Prose, esp. in Hp. and Aret., SD2.12, al., and in later Prose, cf. ἐπιστήμη καὶ γνώμη ἀ. Plb.1.4.9, ἀ. τιακάς Plu.Rom.12; ὁ σενᾶτος ἀτρεκῶς γερουσίαν σημαίνει strictly, ib.13; οὐκ ἔφυγον δ' ἀτρεκῶς not really, Epigr. Gr.339.5; of persons, truthful, accurate, J.BJ3.8.9. (Cf. ἄτρακτος.)
