τέλειος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[τέλος]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> having reached its end, [[finished]], [[complete]], Il., etc.: of victims, [[perfect]], without [[spot]] or [[blemish]], Il.; τὰ τέλεα τῶν προβάτων Hdt.; of sacrifices, ἱερὰ τέλεια of [[full]] [[tale]] or [[number]], or performed with all rites, Thuc.; so, αἰετὸς τελειότατος πετεηνῶν is prob. the surest [[bird]] of [[augury]], Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of animals, fullgrown, Xen., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of persons, [[absolute]], [[complete]], [[accomplished]], [[perfect]] in his or its [[kind]], Plat., etc.: —so of things, [[φάρμακον]] τελεώτατον Plat.; τ. [[ἀρετή]], [[φιλία]], etc., Arist.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> of prayers, vows, etc., [[fulfilled]], [[accomplished]], Pind., Aesch.; [[ὄψις]] οὐ τελέη a [[vision]] [[which]] [[imported]] [[nothing]], Hdt.; τ. [[ψῆφος]] a [[fixed]] [[resolve]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> in Arithm., those numbers are τέλειοι, [[which]] are [[equal]] to the sum of [[their]] divisors, as 6 = 3 + 2 + 1, Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of the gods, fulfilling [[prayer]], [[Ζεύς|Ζεὺς]] τ. [[Zeus]] the fulfiller, Pind., Aesch.; of [[Hera]] [[ζυγία]], Lat. [[Juno]] [[pronuba]], the presiding [[goddess]] of [[marriage]], Pind., Aesch., etc.:—so, [[τέλειος]] [[ἀνήρ]], = Lat. [[paterfamilias]], the [[lord]] of the [[house]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> = [[τελευταῖος]], [[last]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> τέλειον (not τέλεον), τό, a [[royal]] [[banquet]], as a transl. of the Pers. tycta, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> adv. [[τελέως]], at [[last]], Aesch., Plat., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[perfectly]], [[absolutely]], [[thoroughly]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the neut. τέλεον is also used as adv., Luc.<br /><b class="num">VI.</b> comp. and Sup.: Hom. uses τελεώτερος, -εώτατος or τελειότερος, -ειότατος, as his [[metre]] requires: in [[attic]] τελεώτερος, -ώτατος [[prevail]].