μέτριος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[μέτριος]], η, ον [[μέτρον]]<br />[[within]] [[measure]], and so,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of Size, of [[average]] [[height]], Hdt.; μ. [[πῆχυς]] the [[common]] [[cubit]], Hdt.; so of [[time]], [[moderate]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[of Number]], [[few]], [[Xen]].<br /><b class="num">III.</b> of Degree, holding to the [[mean]], [[moderate]], Hes., Eur., etc.:—of a [[mean]] or [[middle]] [[state]], opp. to a [[high]] or low [[estate]], Trag., etc.; τὸ [[μέτριον]] the [[mean]], Lat. [[aurea]] [[mediocritas]], Soph.; so, τὰ μέτρια Eur., etc.; —so, μ. [[φιλία]] a [[friendship]] not too [[great]], Eur.; μ. ἐσθῆτι [[χρῆσθαι]] [[common]] [[dress]], Thuc.; μετρίᾳ φυλακῇ not in [[strict]] [[custody]], Thuc.; οἱ μέτριοι [[common]] men, the [[common]] [[sort]], Dem.:—also, [[ὅσον]] οἰόμεθα [[μέτριον]] [[εἶναι]] [[just]] [[sufficient]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[moderate]], [[tolerable]], Hdt., Soph., etc.; τὰ μ. [[moderate]] terms, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of Persons, [[moderate]], [[temperate]], [[virtuous]], Theogn., Eur.; μετριώτεροι ἐς τὰ πολιτικά Thuc.; μέτρ. πρὸς δίαιταν Aeschin.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[proportionate]], [[fitting]], Xen.<br />B. adv. [[μετρίως]], [[moderately]], [[within]] due limits, in due [[measure]], [[fairly]], Hdt., Thuc., etc.; μ. ἔχειν τοῦ βίου to be [[moderately]] well off, Hdt.:—comp. μετριώτερον, Sup. -ώτατα, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[enough]], [[sufficiently]], Ar., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[modestly]], [[temperately]], Eur., Xen.:— to [[fair]] terms, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> the neut. [[μέτριον]] and μέτρια are also used as adv., Plat.:—with Art., τὸ [[μέτριον]] Xen.; τὰ μέτρια Thuc.