σύμμετρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, (μέτρον) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[commensurate with]], [[of like measure]] or [[of like size with]], σύμμετρος σῷ ποδί (sc. ἡ [[βάσις]]) <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>533</span>; χαμεύνῃ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 676</span>; βόστρυχον . . σύμμετρον τῷ σῷ κάρᾳ = [[exactly]] [[like]] it, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>230</span>: especially of [[time]], [[commensurate with]], [[keeping even with]], δαλὸν ἥλικα ξύμμετρόν τε διαὶ βίου ib.<span class="bibl">610</span> (lyr.); τῷδε τἀνδρὶ σ. [[being]] of like age with him, <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">OT</span>1113</span>; [[ποίᾳ ξύμμετρος προὔβην τύχῃ]]; = [[coincident with what chance have I come]]? i.e. in the very nick of time, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ant.</span>387</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>26</span> (infr. ''III''). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in Mathematics, [[having a common measure]], σύμμετροι αἱ τῷ αὐτῷ μέτρῳ μετρούμεναι (sc. [[γραμμαί]]) <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">LI</span>968b6</span>; freq. denied of the relation between the [[diagonal]] of a [[square]] and its [[side]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">APo.</span>71b27</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">APr.</span>41a26</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ph.</span>221b25</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>1392a18</span>; τὸ [[νόμισμα]] πάντα ποιεῖ σύμμετρα [[commensurable]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">EN</span>1133b22</span>; [[μήκει οὐ σύμμετροι τῇ ποδιαίᾳ]] = [[not lineally commensurate with the one-foot side]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>147d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">148b</span>: Comp., of musical intervals, ταῖς αἰσθήσεσιν εὐληπτότερα τὰ συμμετρότερα <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Harm.</span>1.10</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[in accord with the metre]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Eleg.</span>1</span>; σύμμετροι ἐπεκτύπεον ποδῶν χορείαις [[in time]], <span class="bibl">Tim. <span class="title">Pers.</span>213</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[in measure with]], [[proportionable]], [[exactly suitable]], [[λόγοι ἀνδράσι σύμμετροι]] = [[words befitting a man]] <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.83</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">5.110</span>, <span class="bibl">12.135</span>; [[γῆ θηρίοις μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώποις σύμμετρος]] = [[region more fitting to beasts than men]] <span class="bibl">Str.15.1.26</span>; σύμμετρος πρός τι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>625d</span>, Metrod.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1, etc.; c. dat., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Men.</span>76d</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ti.</span>67c</span>, <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Fr.</span>81</span> (Comp.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> abs., [[in right measure]], [[in due proportion]], [[symmetrical]], opp. [[ὑπερβάλλων]] and [[ἐλλείπων]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1104a18</span>, al.; τὸ σ. καὶ καλόν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>66b</span>; τῶν φύσει ξηροτέρων . . ὡς πρὸς τὸν σ. παραβάλλειν Gal.6.360, cf. 27, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> generally, [[fitting]], [[meet]], [[due]], ξύμμετρον δ' ἔπος λέγω <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>532</span> (lyr.); δένδρον πολυκαρπότερον τοῦ συμμέτρου <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>86c</span>, cf. Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.288S., al.; [[ξύμμετρος ὡς κλύειν]] = [[within fit distance for hearing]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>84</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[moderate]], πόνοι <span class="bibl">Isoc.1.12</span>; ὥστε σύμμετρον . . τὸ πνεῦμα . . ποιεῖν <span class="bibl">Antiph.202.16</span>; σ. τροφαί <span class="bibl">Sor.1.26</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">49</span>, al.; σ. [[στέγη]] [[moderate in size]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>8.13</span>; [[of suitable size]], σκῆπτρον <span class="title">OGI</span>56.62 (Canopus, iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[συμμέτρως]] [[in moderation]], <span class="bibl">Isoc.1.32</span>, etc.; [[in due time]], ἀφίκετο <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>26</span>; [[συμμέτρως πρὸς ἑωυτόν]] = [[conveniently]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Off.</span>3</span>; [[συμμέτρως ἔχειν πρός τι]] = to [[be in proportion to]]... <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1.16</span>; εἴς τι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mir.</span> 834a15</span>; σ. ἴσχειν λεπτότητος καὶ πάχους <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>85c</span>; τὸ μετὰ νοῦ καὶ τὸ σ. <span class="bibl">Nicom.Com.1.36</span>; = [[μετρίως]], [[φέρειν]] <span class="title">IG</span>12(7).396.31 (Amorgos, ii B.C.), cf. <span class="bibl">Aristid.Quint.2.5</span>. Comp. [[συμμετρότερον]] [[more fittingly]], <span class="bibl">D.61.27</span> (v.l. [[συμμετρώτερον]]).</span>