κριτικός

English (LSJ)

ή, όν,

   A able to discern, critical, δύναμις σύμφυτος κ. Arist. APo.99b35; οὐκ ἔχει ῥῖνα κριτικὴν πρὸς τοὖψον Posidipp.1.4; αἰσθήσεις κ. Phld.Mus.p.8 K.; τὸ κ. the power of discerning, Arist.de An.432a16; ἡ κριτική (sc. τέχνη) Pl.Plt.260c, etc.: c. gen., ἡ γεῦσις τῶν σχημάτων κριτικωτάτη Arist.Sens.442b17, cf. Thphr.Sens.43, Ocell.2.7; of persons, [τὸν ὅλως πεπαιδευμένον] περὶ πάντων ὡς εἰπεῖν κ. τινὰ νομίζομεν εἶναι Arist.PA639a9: esp. in language, grammarian, scholar, literary critic, Pl.Ax.366e, Phld.Po.5.24, Str.9.1.10, etc.; of Crates, Ath. 11.490e, who distd. κ. and γραμματικός, S.E.M.1.79; εἰ δύναταί τις εἶναι κ. καὶ γραμματικός, title of work by Galen (Libr.Propr.17); but τῶν ὕστερον γραμματικῶν κληθέντων πρότερον δὲ κ. D.Chr.53.1, cf. Apollod. ap. Clem.Al.Strom.1.16.79; οἱ κ. τῶν λόγων Philostr.VS 2.1.14; πρὸς τοὺς κ., title of work by Chrysippus, Stoic.2.9; ἡ κ., opp. ἡ γραμματική, Taurisc. ap. S.E.M.1.248, cf. Sch.DTp.3 H. Adv. -κῶς, ἔχειν τινός Artem.4Praef., cf. Erot.Praef.p.7 N., Men.Rh. p.391 S.    2 of or for judging, ἀρχὴ κ. the office of judges, opp. ἀρχὴ βουλευτική, Arist.Pol.1275b19.    II = κρίσιμος, ἑβδομάς Ph.1.45 (Sup.), cf. Plu.2.134f, Gal.9.93, al. Adv. -κῶς Id.UP17.2, al.