ἔσχατος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=ἔσχᾰτος, η, ον [prob. from ἐκ, ἐξ, as if ἔξατος,]<br />[[outermost]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of Space, as [[always]] in Hom. the [[furthest]], [[uttermost]], [[extreme]], Hom., Hdt., [[attic]]; ἔσχατοι ἄλλων, of the Thracians who were the [[last]] in the [[Trojan]] lines, Il.; ἔσχατοι [[ἀνδρῶν]], of the Aethiopians, Od.: ἔσχατα, τά, extremities, ἐσχ. γαίης Hes.; τὰ ἔσχ. τοῦ στρατοπέδου Thuc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> the [[furthest]] in [[each]] [[direction]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[uppermost]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> lowest, deepest, Lat. [[imus]], ἀΐδας Theocr.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> innermost, Lat. [[intimus]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> the [[last]], hindmost, Soph.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> of Degree, the [[uttermost]], [[utmost]], [[last]], [[worst]], [[πόνος]], [[κίνδυνος]] Plat.:—as Subst., τὸ ἔσχατον, τὰ ἔσχατα, the [[utmost]], Hdt.; of [[suffering]], [[pain]], etc., Hdt., [[attic]]; ἐπ' ἔσχατα βαίνεις Soph.; ἔσχατ' ἐσχάτων κακά [[worst]] of [[possible]] evils, Soph.; so in Sup., τὰ πάντων ἐσχατώτατα the extremest of all, Xen.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> of [[Time]], [[last]], ἐς τὸ ἔσχ. to the end, Hdt., Thuc.; ἐσχάτας [[ὑπὲρ]] ῥίζας [[over]] the [[last]] [[scion]] of the [[race]], Soph.: —neut. ἔσχατον as adv., for the [[last]] [[time]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> adv. -τως, to the [[uttermost]], [[exceedingly]], Xen.:—so, ἐς τὸ ἔσχ. Hdt., Xen.