ἀτρεκής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ές, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[strict]], [[precise]], [[exact]], [[ἀλάθεια]], [[καιρός]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>5.17</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">P.</span>8.7</span>; ἀριθμός <span class="bibl">Hdt. 7.187</span>; δίαιτα Hp.<span class="title">Mochl.</span>42; βιότου ἀ. ἐπιτηδεύσεις [[over-nice]], [[precise]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>261</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ ἀ</b>., = [[ἀτρέκεια]], φράσαι, εἰπεῖν τὸ ἀ., <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.9</span>,<span class="bibl">7.60</span>; τὸ -έστερον τούτων [[more precise details]], <span class="bibl">Id.5.54</span>; τὸ -έστατον <span class="bibl">Id.7.214</span>; ἐγγὺς τοῦ -εστάτου ἥκειν <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span>12</span>; rarely of persons, [[exact]], [[strict]], Ἑλλανοδίκας <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>3.12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[sure]], [[certain]], ποδὶ ἀτρεκέϊ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">N.</span>3.41</span>; ἀ. δόξα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>1115</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Hom. has only Adv. [[ἀτρεκέως]] (neut. as adverb, ἀτρεκὲς . . βαλών [[accurately]], <span class="bibl">Il.5.208</span> (expld. as adjective by Eust. ad loc.); δεκὰς ἀ. [[precisely]], <span class="bibl">Od.16.245</span>): mostly with the Verbs [[ἀγορεύειν]], [[καταλέξαι]], tell [[truly]], [[exactly]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.10</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.1.169</span>, etc.; ἀ. μαντεύσομαι <span class="bibl">17.154</span>; ἀ. ἔφρασεν <span class="title">IG</span>3.716; ἀ. ὀλίγοι <span class="bibl">Thgn. 636</span>; freq. in Hdt., ἀ. εἰπεῖν <span class="bibl">1.57</span>,al.; εἰδέναι <span class="bibl">1.209</span>, al.; ἐπίστασθαι <span class="bibl">3.130</span>; ἐκμαθεῖν <span class="bibl">7.10</span>.ή; διακρῖναι <span class="bibl">1.172</span>; διασημῆναι <span class="bibl">5.86</span>; φαίνειν <span class="bibl">2.49</span>; ἀ. ἀριθμεῖσθαι <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Prog.</span>20</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. ὅμοιον</b> [[precisely]] similar, Diog. Apoll.5. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">ἀ. ἀποκαυλισθεῖσα</b> broken [[straight across]], opp. [[παραμηκέως]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>14</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> neut. as adverb (cf. supr. <span class="bibl">11.1</span>), τὸ δ' ἀτρεκὲς ὄλβιος οὐδείς <span class="bibl">Thgn.167</span>; ἐπ' ἀτρεκές <span class="title">IG</span>9(1).880(Corc.).—The word and its derivs. are rare in Trag. and not found in Att. Prose, [[ἀκριβής]] and its derivs. being used instead: freq. in Ion. Prose, especially in Hp. and <span class="bibl">Aret., <span class="title">SD</span>2.12</span>, al., and in later Prose, cf. ἐπιστήμη καὶ γνώμη ἀ. <span class="bibl">Plb.1.4.9</span>, ἀ. τιακάς <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Rom.</span>12</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ σενᾶτος ἀτρεκῶς γερουσίαν σημαίνει</b> [[strictly]], ib.<span class="bibl">13</span>; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἔφυγον δ' ἀτρεκῶς</b> not <b class="b2">really, Epigr. Gr</b>.<span class="bibl">339.5</span>; of persons, [[truthful]], [[accurate]], <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>3.8.9</span>. (Cf. [[ἄτρακτος]].) </span>