κεφάλαιος

English (LSJ)

[ᾰ], α, ον, (κεφαλή)

   A of the head: metaph., principal, chief, ῥῆμα κ. (with a play on κεφαλίτης λίθος) Ar.Ra.854; τὸ κ. μέρος PMasp.151.16 (vi A.D.): Sup. -ότατος v.l. in Pl.Grg.494e.    II mostly Subst. κεφάλαιον, τό, = κεφαλή, head, parts about the head, esp. of fish, θύννου κ. τοδί Callias Com.3: in pl., Amphis 35, Sotad. Com.1.5; also κ. ῥαφανῖδος Ar.Nu.981; of an infant, Leonid. ap. Aët.6.1.    2 chief or main point, κ. δὴ παιδείας λέγομεν τὴν ὀρθὴν τροφήν Pl.Lg.643c; esp. in speaking or writing, sum, gist of the matter, κεφάλαια λόγων Pi.P.4.116; κ. τοῦ παντὸς λόγου Men.Georg. 75, cf. Cic.Att.5.18.1; τὰ κ. συγγράφων Εὐριπίδῃ drawing up the heads of the play, Antiph.113.5: freq. in Prose, Th.4.50, Pl.Grg. 453a, etc.; κ. τῶν εἰρημένων Isoc.3.62, cf. 5.154; κ. τῆς οἰκονομίας Phld.Rh.1.68 S. (pl.); ἐν κεφαλαίῳ, or ὡς ἐν κ., εἰπεῖν to speak summarily, X.Cyr.6.3.18, Pl.Smp.186c, al.; ἐν κεφαλαίοις ὑπομνῆσαι, ἀποδείξειν, περιλαβεῖν τι, Th.6.87, Lys.13.33, Isoc.2.9; βραχυτάτῳ κ. μαθεῖν Th.1.36; τύπῳ καὶ ἐπὶ κεφαλαίου (v.l. -αίῳ), opp. ἀκριβέστερον, Arist.EN1107b14; ἐπὶ κ. Plb.1.65.5, 3.5.9; ἐπὶ κεφαλαίων D.19.315, etc.; esp. in an argument, summing up, ἐν κεφαλαίοις Pl.Ti. 26c; κεφαλαίῳ δέ... Lat. denique, Decr. ap. D.18.164; τὸ δ' οὖν κ. ib.213; τὸ δὲ κ. τῶν λόγων, ἄνθρωπος εἶ Men.531.10; συναγαγεῖν τὸ κ. to sum up, Arist.Metaph. 1042a4.    3 metaph., of persons, the head or chief, ὅ τι περ κ. τῶν κάτωθεν, of Pericles, Eup.93; τὸ κ. οὐδέπω λογίζομαι, τὸν δεσπότην Men.Pk.173; ὅ τι περ τὸ κ. Luc.Harm. 3, Gall.24, Philops.6; τὰ κ. τῶν μαθημάτων, of philosophers, Id.Pisc. 14; τὸ κ. τοῦ πολέμου App.BC5.50; οἳ τὸ τῆς στάσεως κ. ἦσαν ib.43; τὸν Θαλῆν τῶν σοφῶν τὸ κ. Jul.Or.3.125d: hence, of qualities, etc., σχεδόν τι τὸ κ. τῶν κακῶν (sc. avarice) Apollod. Gel.4; τὸ κ. τῆς εὐδαιμονίας ἡ διάθεσις Diog.Oen.57.    4 Rhet., head, topic of argument, D.H.Comp.1, Rh.10.5, Str.1.2.31.    5 of money, capital, opp. interest or income, Pl.Lg.742c, D.27.64, etc.    b sum total, IG12.91.23, al., Lys.19.40, D.27.10; πολλοῦ κ. for a large sum, Act. Ap.22.28, cf. Aristeas 24, Plu.Fab.4, etc.; κ. ἀργυρικά PRyl.133.15 (i A.D.); also σιτικὰ καὶ ἀργυρικὰ κ. PSI4.281.31 (ii A.D.).    6 crown, completion of a thing, τὸ μὲν κ. τῶν ἀδικημάτων the crowning act of wrong, D.27.7; δύο ταῦτα ὡσπερεὶ κ. ἐφ' ἅπασι . . ἐπέθηκε Id.21.18.    7 chapter, section, PGnom.Prooem., Ammon.in Int.1.17, al., Chor.in Hermes 17.223; distd. from τίτλος, Suid. s.h.v.