ὡραῖος

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   A produced at the right season (ὥρα), seasonable, timely: esp. of the fruits of the earth, βίος or βίοτος ὡ. store of fruits gathered in due season, Hes.Op.32,307; ὡ. καρποί the fruits of the season, καρποὺς . . κατατίθεσθαι ὡραίους to store them up in season, Hdt.1.202: freq. in neut., ὡραῖα, τά, Th.1.120, 3.58, X.An.5.3.9, Pl.Lg.845e; ἑραίως τὰ ὡραῖα ἀποδιδόναι Hp.Aph.3.8; ὡραῖα . . ἀποτελεῖν ἱερά to render fruits of the season as sacred offerings, Pl.Criti. 116c, cf. Orac. ap. D.21.52; τρωκτὰ ὡ. X.An.5.3.12; ἄνθεα AP9.564 (Nicias); σῦκα Aret.CD1.3; also of animals, ὡ. ἄρνες yearling, AP6.157 (Theodorid.); of tunnies at a year old (from six months to one year they were called πηλαμύδες), πηλαμὺς . . ὡραία θέρους τῷ Βοσπορίτῃ S.Fr.503; ὡ. θύννοι Ps.-Hes. ap. Ath.3.116b, cf. Hices.ib.116e, Archestr.Fr.38.9, Plaut.Capt.851; τάριχος ὡ. fish salted or pickled in the season, Alex.186.5; ἰχθύες ἐς τάγηνον ὡ. Babr.6.4; σαργάναι ὡ. pickling-tubs, Poll.7.27: hence generally, agricultural produce, εἶναι ἐνεχυρασίαν Αἰξωνεῦσιν ἐκ τῶν ὡ. τῶν ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου IG22.2492.8 (iv B. C.).    2 τὰ ὡραῖα, = τὰ καταμήνια, esp. at their first appearance, Hp.Superf.34.    3 Subst. ἡ ὡραία (in full, ὥρη ἡ ὡραίη Aret. SD1.4, Phryn.PSp.128 B., etc.), harvest-time, esp. the twenty days before and twenty days after the rising of the dog-star, μίμνει ἐς ὡραίην till harvest-time, A.R.3.1390.    b the campaigning-season, during which the troops kept the field, D.9.48, 56.30, Plb.3.16.7.    c τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐκ ὕει it does not rain in the season (sc. of rain), Hdt.4.28.    II happening or done in due season, seasonable, ἄροτος, ἔργον, Hes.Op.617.642; πλόος ib.630; χειμῶνες Thphr.HP4.14.1; ὕδατα Id.CP2.2.1; σκαπάνη ib.3.16.1; τομὴ [καλάμου] Id.HP4.11.4; ὅτε ὡραῖον εἴη when the weather permitted, App.Pun.120.    2 metaph., (ὥρα (C) B) seasonable, due, proper, ὡραίων τυχεῖν, = νομίμων τυχεῖν (cf. ὥριος (A). 111.2), E.Supp.175: ἐν ὡραί[ᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ] dub. in SIG668.4 (Delphi, ii B. C.); ἐνιαύτια ὡ. ib. 1025.37 (Cos, iv/iii B. C.), cf. Hsch.    III of persons, seasonable or ripe for a thing, c.gen., ἀνδρὸς ὡραίη Hdt.1.107, cf. Lys.Fr.4; γάμων or γάμου ὡραῖαι, Hdt.1.196, 6.122, cf. X.Cyr.4.6.9; ἐς ἥβην ὡραίαν γάμων E.Hel.12 (ὡραίων codd.); ὅστις οὐκέθ' ὡραῖος γαμεῖ Id.Fr.804; ὡ. γάμος seasonable marriage, A.Fr.55; also of old persons, ripe or ready for death, πατήρ γε μὴν ὡ. E.Alc.516; αὐτὸς δ', ἐν ὠ. γὰρ ἕσταμεν βίῳ, θνῄσκειν ἕτοιμος Id.Ph.968; θάνατος ὡ. X.Ages.10.3; σορός Ar.V.1365; ὡραῖος ἀποτέθνηκεν Plu.2.178e; so ὕλη ὡ. τέμνεσθαι Thphr.HP5.1.1.    2 in reference to age, in the prime of life, youthful, Hes.Op.695: hence in the bloom of youth, opp. ἄωρος, X.Smp.8.21, Pl.R.574c; ὡ. ἐὼν καὶ καλός Pi.O.9.94; παιδίσκη ὡραιοτάτη Ar.Ach.1148 (anap.), cf. Ra.291,514; παῖς ὡραῖος Id.Av.138: but not necessarily implying beauty, τοῖς τῶν ὡραίων προσώποις, καλῶν δὲ μή Pl.R.601b; ἄνευ κάλλους ὡραῖοι Arist.Rh. 1406b37; cf. ὥρα (C) B. 11.    3 generally, of things, beautiful, graceful, LXX Ge.3.6, 2 Ch.36.19, Ev.Matt.23.27; ἡ ὡ. πύλη τοῦ ἱεροῦ Act.Ap.3.10, cf. 3.2.    IV irreg. Sup. ὡραιέστατος Epich.186d.    V Adv. ὡραίως Hp.Aph.3.8.