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ἀκρέσπερος

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Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος – For men reason is a healer of grief – Für Menschen ist der Trauer Arzt allein das WortMaeroris unica medicina oratio.

Menander, Sententiae, 452
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Transliteration A: akrésperos Transliteration B: akresperos Transliteration C: akresperos Beta Code: a)kre/speros

English (LSJ)

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   A on edge of evening (ἄκρος 11), hence, at nightfall, Nic.Th.25 (cf. Sch.), AP7.633 (Crin.); τὴν ἀκρέσπερον [νύκτα] Arist.HA619b21, as cited by Ath.8.353b (ἀρχέσπερον codd. Ath., ἄχρις ἑσπερίου codf. Arist.):—neut. ἀκρέσπερον as Adv., Theoc.24.77; but, on approach of evening, Hp.Epid.7.23.