ὅρος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[ὅρος]], ''Ionic'' [[οὖρος]], ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[boundary]], [[landmark]], and in plural bounds, boundaries, Il., etc.:— the [[boundary]] [[between]] two places is expressed by putting [[both]] in gen., [[οὖρος]] τῆς Μηδικῆς καὶ τῆς Λυδικῆς Hdt.: [[generally]], a [[boundary]], [[limit]], [[ἑβδομήκοντα]] ἔτη [[οὖρον]] τῆς ζόης ἀνθρώπῳ [[προτίθημι]] I set 70 years as the [[limit]] of [[human]] [[life]], Hdt.; metaph. of a [[woman]]'s [[mind]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in plural marking-stones (στῆλαι, cippi), [[bearing]] inscriptions, Hdt.: in [[attic]] Law, [[stone]] tablets set up on mortgaged lands as a [[register]] of the [[debt]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> a [[limit]], [[rule]], [[standard]], [[measure]], Plat., Dem., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> an end, aim, Dem., etc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> in [[Aristotle]]'s Logic, the [[term]] of a [[proposition]]:—its [[definition]], [[species]]: so, in Mathematics, ὅροι are the terms of a [[ratio]] or [[proportion]], Arist.