ἱκανός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῐ], ή, όν,</b> (ἱκνέομαι) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[sufficing]], [[becoming]], [[befitting]]; prose Adj., used two or three times by Trag. (v. infr.): </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">I</span> of persons, <b class="b2">sufficient, competent to do</b> a thing, c. inf., <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.45</span>, <span class="bibl">Antipho 1.15</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἱ. τεκμηριῶσαι</b> [[sufficient]] to prove a point, <span class="bibl">Th.1.9</span>; -ώτατος [εἰπεῖν] καὶ γνῶναι <span class="bibl">Lys.2.42</span>; <b class="b3">τίς σοῦ -ώτερος πεῖσαι</b>; <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.4.12</span>; <b class="b3">ἱ. ζημιοῦν</b> [[with sufficient power]] to punish, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lac.</span>8.4</span>; ἱ. βοηθεῖν <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Phdr.</span>277a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>365a</span>; ἱ. ὥστε γνῶναι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>875a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Phdr.</span>258b</span>; ἱ. κατὰ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν <span class="bibl">Plb.25.3.6</span>, al.: c. acc. rei, <b class="b3">ἀνὴρ γνώμην ἱ</b>. a man of [[sufficient]] prudence, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.4</span>; <b class="b3">ἱ. τὴν ἰατρικήν</b> [[sufficiently versed in]] medicine, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.6.15</span>: c. dat. rei, ἱ. ἐμπειρίᾳ καὶ ἡλικίᾳ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 467d</span>; οἱ τοῖς χρήμασιν -ώτατοι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>2.1</span>: c. dat. pers., [[a match for]], [[equivalent to]], εἷς ἔχων ἰατρικὴν πολλοῖς ἱ. ἰδιώταις <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>322c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tht.</span>169a</span>: abs., ἱ. Ἁπόλλων <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>377</span>; οἱ -ώτατοι τῶν πολιτῶν <span class="bibl">Isoc. 12.132</span>; κριτὴς -ώτερος <span class="bibl">Id.10.38</span>; ἱ. σοφιστής <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ly.</span>204a</span>; <b class="b3">αὐληταὶ ἱ. ὡς πρὸς ἰδιώτας</b> [[very tolerable]] in comparison with... <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Prt.</span>327c</span>; γυνὴ ἱ. μέν, ἄγροικος δέ <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DDeor.</span>20.3</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ Ἱ</b>. [[the Almighty]], <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ru.</span> 1.21</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in bad sense, [[capable]], ἱ. εἶ λαλῶν κατακόψαι πάντα <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Sam.</span>69</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> of things, in amount, [[sufficient]], [[adequate]], τὰ ἀρκοῦνθ' ἱ. τοῖς γε σώφροσιν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>554</span>; ἱ. τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὰ παρακείμενα <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1047</span>; <b class="b3">ἱκανὰ τοῖς πολεμίοις ηὐτύχηται</b> they have had successes [[enough]], <span class="bibl">Th.7.77</span>; <b class="b3">ἱ. εἴς, ἐπί, πρός τι</b>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Hier.</span>4.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 371e</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Prt.</span>322b</span>; [πρόβατα] ἱ. ἐς φορβήν <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.121</span>; of size, [[large enough]], οὐχ ἱκανῆς οὔσης τῆς Ἁττικῆς <span class="bibl">Th.1.2</span>; <b class="b3">οὐδ' ἦν ἱκανά σοι . . μέλαθρα . . ἐγκαθυβρίζειν</b> not [[large enough]] to riot in, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>996</span>; χώρα ἱ. τρέφειν τοὺς τότε <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>373d</span>, al.; of number or magnitude, [[considerable]], λῦπαι <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.2.2</span>; <b class="b3">μέρος τῶν ὄντων</b> ib.<span class="bibl">2.1.6</span>, etc.; of Time, [[considerable]], [[long]], ἱ. χρόνον <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>354</span> (lyr.); ἱ. χρόνος τινὶ ἐπιλαθέσθαι <span class="bibl">Lys.3.10</span>; ἱκανόν ἐστί τινι <span class="bibl">Damox.1.1</span>: with personal constr., ἔφη ἱκανὸς αὐτὸς ἀτυχῶν εἶναι <span class="bibl">Is.2.7</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[sufficient]], [[satisfactory]], ἱ. μαρτυρίαν παρέχεσθαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>179b</span>; ἱ. λόγῳ ἀποδεῖξαι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hp.Mi.</span>369c</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ ἱ. λαμβάνειν</b> to take [[security]] or [[bail]], Act.Ap.17.9, <span class="title">OGI</span>629.100 (Palmyra, ii A.D.); <b class="b3">τὸ ἱ. ποιεῖν</b> give [[security]], <span class="bibl">Plb.32.3.13</span>, <span class="bibl">D.L.4.50</span>, <span class="bibl">Just.<span class="title">Nov.</span>86.4</span> (but simply, [[satisfy]], τῷ ὄχλῳ <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Marc.</span>15.15</span>); ἱ. δοῦναι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>6.554.23</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>294.23</span> (i A.D.); <b class="b3">ἐφ' ἱκανόν</b>,= <b class="b3">ἱκανῶς</b>, <span class="bibl">Plb.11.25.1</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.11.40</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> Adv. <b class="b3">-νῶς</b> [[sufficiently]], [[adequately]], <span class="bibl">Th.6.92</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">λαγόνες λαπαραὶ ἱ</b>. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>5.30</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Phgn.</span> 807b26</span>; ἱ. εἴρηται περί τινος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">EN</span>1096a3</span>, al.; later, [[considerably]], [[amply]], <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>3.6</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">VS</span>1.8.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.7.7</span>; [[fully]], μιᾶς ὥρας ἱ. παρελθούσης Ptol.<span class="title">Alm.</span>4.6. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[excessively]], <b class="b3">οὔτε γὰρ ἱ. ὑγρόν ἐστι</b> not [[too]] moist, Gal.6.765, cf. 767,768; ἱ. βλαβερά <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Vict.Att.</span>8</span>; <b class="b3">παχὺ ἱ. αἷμα</b> ibid. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ἱ. ἔχειν</b> to be [[sufficient]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.91</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἱ. ἐχέτω</b> let this be [[enough]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>245e</span>; ἱ. ἔχει πρός τι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>430c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>6.3.22</span>; περί τινος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>402a</span>; <b class="b3">ἱ. ἔχειν τινί</b> to be [[sufficiently]] supplied <b class="b2">with . .</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Grg.</span>493c</span>; ἱ. ἔχειν τοῦ βάθους <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tht.</span>194d</span>; ἐπιστήμης <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>62a</span>; ἱ. πεφυκέναι πρὸς τἆλλα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Chrm.</span>158b</span>: abs., <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.1.1</span>: Sup. -ωτάτως <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">de Arte</span>12</span>; -ώτατα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span> 67a</span>.</span>