point
αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων → always strive for excellence and prevail over others (Iliad 6.208, 11.784)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
sharp end of anything: Ar. and V. ἀκμή, ἡ (Eur., Supp. 318).
point of a spear: P. and V. λόγχη, ἡ (Plat., Lach. 183D).
point of an arrow: V. γλωχίς, ἡ.
sharp point of rock: V. στόνυξ, ὁ (Eur., Cyclops).
since the land about Cynossema has a conformation coming to a sharp point: P. τοῦ χωρίου τοῦ περὶ τὸ Κυνὸς σῆμα ὀξεῖαν καὶ γωνιώδη τὴν περιβολὴν ἔχοντος (Thuc. 8, 104).
cape: P. and V. ἄκρα, ἡ, P. ἀκρωτήριον, τό, V. ἀκτή, ἡ, προβλής, ὁ, Ar. and V. ἄκρον, τό, πρών, ὁ.
meaning: P. διάνοια, ἡ; see meaning.
lead from the point: P. ἀπάγειν ἀπὸ τῆς ὑποθεσέως (Dem. 416), or simply P. and V. πλανᾶν.
miss the point: P. and V. πλανᾶσθαι.
beside the point: P. ἔξω τοῦ πράγματος (Dem. 1318), Ar. and P. ἔξω τοῦ λόγου.
to the point: P. πρὸς λόγον.
there is no point in: P. οὐδὲν προὔργου ἐστί (with infin.).
a case in point: P. and V. παράδειγμα, τό.
question in discussion: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ.
disputed points: P. τὰ διαφέροντα, τὰ ἀμφίλογα.
it is a disputed point: P. ἀμφισβητεῖται.
the chief point: P. τὸ κεφάλαιον.
a fresh point: P. and V. καινόν τι.
I hear this is his chief point of defence: P. ἀκούω . . . τοῦτο μέγιστον ἀγώνισμα εἶναι (Lys. 137, 8<).
highest point, zenith: P. and V. ἀκμή, ἡ.
be at its highest point, v.: P. also V. ἀκμάζειν.
carry one's point: P. and V. νικᾶν, κρατεῖν τῇ γνώμῃ.
make a point, score a point (in an argument): P. and V. λέγειν τι.
herein you give us a point (advantage) as in draughts: V. ἓν μεν τοδʼ ἡμῖν ὥσπερ ἐν πεσσοῖς δίδως κρεῖσσον (Eur., Supp. 409).
turning point in a race-course: P. and V. καμπή, ἡ.
Met., crisis: P. and V. ἀκμή, ἡ, ἀγών, ὁ, ῥοπή, ἡ; see crisis.
to make known the country's weak points: P. διδάσκειν ἃ πονηρῶς ἔχει τῶν πραγμάτων (Lys. 143, 7).
strong points: P. τὰ ἰσχυρότατα (Thuc. 5, 111).
weak points: P. τὰ σαθρά (Dem. 52).
the weak point in the walls: V. τὸ νόσουν τειχέων (Euripides, Phoenissae 1097).
point of view: P. and V. γνώμη, ἡ, δόξα, ἡ.
point of conscience: P. and V. ἐνθύμιον, τό.
at this point: P. and V. ἐνθάδε.
from that point: P. and V. ἐντεῦθεν, ἐνθένδε.
up to this point: P. μέχρι τούτου.
I wish to return to the point from which I digressed into these subjects: P. ἐπανελθεῖν ὁπόθεν εἰς ταῦτα ἐξέβην βούλομαι (Dem. 298).
I return to the point: P. ἐκεῖσε ἐπανέρχομαι (Dem. 246).
in one point perplexity has assailed me: V. ἔστιν γὰρ ᾗ ταραγμὸς ἐμπέπτωκέ μοι (Eur., Hec. 857).
be on the point of be about to: P. and V. μέλλειν (infin.).
whom I am on the point of seeing killed: V. ὃν . . . ἐπʼ ἀκμῆς εἰμὶ κατθανεῖν ἰδεῖν (Euripides, Helen 896). make a point of, see to it that: P. ἐπιμέλεσθαι ὅπως (fut. indic. or aor. subj.).
verb intransitive
sharpen: Ar. and P. ἀκονᾶν (Xen.), Ar. and V. θήγειν.
sharpen at the end: V. ἐξαποξύνειν (Eur., Cyclops).
point out or point to: P. and V. δεικνύναι, ἐπιδεικνύναι, ἀποδεικνύναι, V. ἐκδεικνύναι. Ar. and P. φράζειν; see show.
make known: P. and V. διδάσκειν.
V. intrans. be directed, tend: P. and V. τείνειν, φέρω, φέρειν, νεύειν; see tend.
it is impossible that the oracle points to this, but to something else more important: Ar. οὐκ ἔσθ' ὅπως ὁ χρησμὸς εἰς τοῦτο ῥέπει ἀλλʼ εἰς ἕτερόν τι μεῖζον (Pl. 51).
the cruel violence to his eyes was the work of heaven to point the moral to Greece: V. αἱ θ' αἱματουργοὶ δεργμάτων διαφθοραί θεῶν σόφισμα κἀπίδειξις Ἑλλάδι (Euripides, Phoenissae 870).
