κορυφαῖος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[head man]], [[chief]], [[leader]], αὐτὸς ἕκαστος βουλόμενος κ. εἶναι <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.82</span>; <b class="b3">τῶν ἀνδρῶν τοὺς κ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">159</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">6.23</span>, <span class="bibl">98</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>173c</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ κορυφαῖοι</b> = [[party]]-[[leader]]s, <span class="bibl">Plb.28.4.6</span>, cf. Phld.<span class="title">Sto.Herc.</span>339.11; in the Drama, [[coryphaeus]], [[leader of the chorus]], ἡγεμὼν τῆς φυλῆς κ. <span class="bibl">D.21.60</span> codd., cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1277a11</span>, <span class="bibl">Posidon.15J.</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">κ. ἑστηκώς</b> standing [[at the head of the row]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>953</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as Adj., [[at the top]], <b class="b3">ὁ κορυφαῖος πῖλος</b> the [[apex]] of the Roman [[flamen]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Marc.</span>5</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ κ. τῆς νίκης</b> the [[crowning fruits]] of... <span class="bibl">Hdn.8.3.5</span>; κ. τέλος τῶν πραγμάτων <span class="bibl">Id.7.5.2</span>; <b class="b3">τοῦ λαμπροῦ κορυφαῖον</b> (sc. [[αἴτιον]]) <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Po.</span>2.41</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> epith. of Zeus, <span class="title">CIG</span>4458.4 (Seleucia in Pieria); of the Roman [[Jupiter Capitolinus]], <span class="bibl">Paus.2.4.5</span>: Sup. [[κορυφαιότατος]] in later Gr., κ. ἀρχαί <span class="title">CIG</span>3885 (Eumeneia), cf. Plu.2.1115b, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Sol.</span>5</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Hist.Conscr.</span>34</span>.</span>