ἱκανός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], ή, όν, ([[ἱκνέομαι]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[sufficing]], [[becoming]], [[befitting]]; prose Adj., used two or three times by Trag. (v. infr.): </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> of persons, [[sufficient]], [[competent]] to [[do]] a thing, c. inf., <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.45</span>, <span class="bibl">Antipho 1.15</span>, etc.; ἱκανὸς [[τεκμηριῶσαι]] [[sufficient]] to [[prove]] a [[point]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.9</span>; ἱκανώτατος [[εἰπεῖν]] καὶ [[γνῶναι]] <span class="bibl">Lys.2.42</span>; τίς σοῦ ἱκανώτερος πεῖσαι; <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.4.12</span>; ἱκανὸς [[ζημιοῦν]] = with [[sufficient]] [[power]] to [[punish]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lac.</span>8.4</span>; ἱκανὸς [[βοηθεῖν]] <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Phdr.</span>277a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>365a</span>; ἱκανὸς ὥστε γνῶναι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>875a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Phdr.</span>258b</span>; ἱκανὸς κατὰ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν <span class="bibl">Plb.25.3.6</span>, al.: c. acc. rei, ἀνὴρ γνώμην ἱ. a man of [[sufficient]] [[prudence]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.4</span>; [[ἱκανὸς τὴν ἰατρικήν]] = [[sufficiently]] [[versed in]] [[medicine]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.6.15</span>: c. dat. rei, ἱκανὸς ἐμπειρίᾳ καὶ ἡλικίᾳ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 467d</span>; οἱ τοῖς χρήμασιν ἱκανώτατοι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>2.1</span>: c. dat. pers., [[a match for]], [[equivalent to]], εἷς ἔχων ἰατρικὴν πολλοῖς ἱ. ἰδιώταις <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>322c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tht.</span>169a</span>: abs., ἱ. Ἁπόλλων <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>377</span>; οἱ ἱκανώτατοι τῶν πολιτῶν <span class="bibl">Isoc. 12.132</span>; κριτὴς ἱκανώτερος <span class="bibl">Id.10.38</span>; ἱκανὸς σοφιστής <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ly.</span>204a</span>; αὐληταὶ ἱ. ὡς πρὸς ἰδιώτας = very [[tolerable]] in comparison with... <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Prt.</span>327c</span>; γυνὴ ἱ. μέν, [[ἄγροικος]] δέ <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DDeor.</span>20.3</span>; ὁ Ἱκανός = the [[Almighty]], <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Ru.</span> 1.21</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> in bad sense, [[capable]], ἱ. εἶ λαλῶν κατακόψαι πάντα <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Sam.</span>69</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> of things, in amount, [[sufficient]], [[adequate]], τὰ ἀρκοῦνθ' ἱ. τοῖς γε σώφροσιν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>554</span>; ἱ. τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὰ παρακείμενα <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1047</span>; [[ἱκανὰ τοῖς πολεμίοις ηὐτύχηται]] = the enemies have had [[success]] [[enough]], <span class="bibl">Th.7.77</span>; ἱκανὸς [[εἴς]], [[ἐπί]], [[πρός]] [[τι]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Hier.</span>4.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 371e</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Prt.</span>322b</span>; [πρόβατα] ἱ. ἐς φορβήν <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.121</span>; of size, [[large enough]], οὐχ ἱκανῆς οὔσης τῆς Ἁττικῆς <span class="bibl">Th.1.2</span>; οὐδ' ἦν ἱκανά σοι . . μέλαθρα . . [[ἐγκαθυβρίζειν]] = not [[large]] [[enough]] to [[riot]] in, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>996</span>; χώρα ἱ. τρέφειν τοὺς τότε <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>373d</span>, al.; of number or magnitude, [[considerable]], λῦπαι <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.2.2</span>; [[μέρος τῶν ὄντων]] ib.<span class="bibl">2.1.6</span>, etc.; of [[time]], [[considerable]], [[long]], ἱ. χρόνον <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>354</span> (lyr.); ἱ. χρόνος τινὶ [[ἐπιλαθέσθαι]] <span class="bibl">Lys.3.10</span>; ἱκανόν ἐστί τινι <span class="bibl">Damox.1.1</span>: with personal constr., ἔφη ἱκανὸς αὐτὸς ἀτυχῶν εἶναι <span class="bibl">Is.2.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[sufficient]], [[satisfactory]], ἱ. μαρτυρίαν παρέχεσθαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>179b</span>; ἱ. λόγῳ ἀποδεῖξαι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hp.Mi.</span>369c</span>; τὸ ἱκανὸν [[λαμβάνειν]] to [[take]] [[security]] or [[bail]], Act.Ap.17.9, <span class="title">OGI</span>629.100 (Palmyra, ii A.D.); τὸ ἱκανὸν [[ποιεῖν]] = give [[security]], <span class="bibl">Plb.32.3.13</span>, <span class="bibl">D.L.4.50</span>, <span class="bibl">Just.<span class="title">Nov.</span>86.4</span> (but simply, [[satisfy]], τῷ ὄχλῳ <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Marc.</span>15.15</span>); ἱ. δοῦναι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>6.554.23</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>294.23</span> (i A.D.); [[ἐφ' ἱκανόν]] = [[ἱκανῶς]], <span class="bibl">Plb.11.25.1</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.11.40</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[ἱκανῶς]] = [[sufficiently]], [[adequately]], <span class="bibl">Th.6.92</span>, etc.; λαγόνες λαπαραὶ ἱ. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>5.30</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Phgn.</span> 807b26</span>; ἱ. εἴρηται περί τινος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">EN</span>1096a3</span>, al.; later, [[considerably]], [[amply]], <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>3.6</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">VS</span>1.8.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.7.7</span>; [[fully]], μιᾶς ὥρας ἱ. παρελθούσης Ptol.<span class="title">Alm.</span>4.6. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[excessively]], οὔτε γὰρ ἱ. ὑγρόν ἐστι = not [[too]] [[moist]], Gal.6.765, cf. 767,768; ἱ. βλαβερά <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Vict.Att.</span>8</span>; παχὺ ἱ. [[αἷμα]] ibid. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> ἱκανῶς [[ἔχειν]] to [[be sufficient]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.91</span>, etc.; ἱκανῶς ἐχέτω = let this be [[enough]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>245e</span>; ἱ. ἔχει πρός τι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>430c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>6.3.22</span>; περί τινος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>402a</span>; ἱ. ἔχειν τινί = to be [[sufficiently]] supplied with . ., <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Grg.</span>493c</span>; ἱ. ἔχειν τοῦ βάθους <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tht.</span>194d</span>; ἐπιστήμης <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>62a</span>; ἱ. πεφυκέναι πρὸς τἆλλα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Chrm.</span>158b</span>: abs., <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.1.1</span>: Sup. [[ἱκανωτάτως]] <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">de Arte</span>12</span>; [[ἱκανώτατα]] <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span> 67a</span>.</span>