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|Definition=[ᾰ], α, ον, ([[κεφαλή]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[of the head]]: metaph., [[principal]], [[chief]], [[ῥῆμα]] κεφάλαιον (with a play on [[κεφαλίτης]] [[λίθος]]) Ar.''Ra.''854; τὸ κεφάλαιον [[μέρος]] ''PMasp.''151.16 (vi A.D.): Sup. [[κεφαλαιότατος]] [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 494e.<br><span class="bld">II</span> mostly Subst. [[κεφάλαιον]], τό = [[κεφαλή]], [[head]], [[parts about the head]], especially of [[fish]], <b class="b3">θύννου κ. τοδί</b> Callias Com.3: in plural, Amphis 35, Sotad. Com.1.5; also [[κεφάλαιον]] ῥαφανῖδος Ar.''Nu.''981; of an infant, Leonid. ap. Aët.6.1.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[chief]] or [[main]] [[point]], κεφάλαιον δὴ [[παιδεία]]ς λέγομεν τὴν ὀρθὴν [[τροφή]]ν Pl.''Lg.''643c; especially in speaking or writing, [[sum]], [[gist of the matter]], κεφάλαια λόγων Pi.''P.''4.116; κ. τοῦ παντὸς λόγου Men.''Georg.'' 75, cf. Cic.''Att.''5.18.1; <b class="b3">τὰ κεφάλαια συγγράφων Εὐριπίδῃ</b> [[drawing]] up the [[head]]s of the [[play]], Antiph.113.5: freq. in Prose, Th.4.50, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 453a, etc.; κ. τῶν εἰρημένων Isoc.3.62, cf. 5.154; κ. τῆς [[οἰκονομία]]ς Phld.''Rh.''1.68 S. (pl.); [[ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν]] or [[ὡς ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν]] = to [[speak]] [[summarily]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''6.3.18, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Symposium|Smp.]]'' 186c, al.; ἐν κεφαλαίοις [[ὑπομνῆσαι]], [[ἀποδείξειν]], [[περιλαβεῖν]] τι, Th.6.87, Lys.13.33, Isoc.2.9; βραχυτάτῳ κ. μαθεῖν Th.1.36; <b class="b3">τύπῳ καὶ ἐπὶ κεφαλαίου</b> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] κεφαλαίῳ), opp. [[ἀκριβέστερον]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1107b14; ἐπὶ κ. Plb.1.65.5, 3.5.9; ἐπὶ κεφαλαίων D.19.315, etc.; especially in an [[argument]], [[summing up]], ἐν κεφαλαίοις Pl.''Ti.'' 26c; <b class="b3">κεφαλαίῳ δέ</b>... Lat. [[denique]], Decr. ap. D.18.164; <b class="b3">τὸ δ' οὖν κεφάλαιον</b> ib.213; τὸ δὲ κεφάλαιον τῶν λόγων, ἄνθρωπος εἶ Men.531.10; [[συναγαγεῖν τὸ κεφάλαιον]] = to [[sum up]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]'' 1042a4.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., of persons, the [[head]] or [[chief]], <b class="b3">ὅ τι περ κ. τῶν κάτωθεν</b>, of Pericles, Eup.93; τὸ κεφάλαιον οὐδέπω [[λογίζομαι]], τὸν δεσπότην Men.''Pk.''173; ὅ τι περ τὸ κεφάλαιον Luc.''Harm.'' 3, ''Gall.''24, ''Philops.''6; <b class="b3">τὰ κεφάλαια τῶν μαθημάτων</b>, of [[philosopher]]s, Id.''Pisc.'' 14; τὸ κεφάλαιον τοῦ πολέμου App.''BC''5.50; <b class="b3">οἳ τὸ τῆς στάσεως κ. ἦσαν</b> ib.43; τὸν Θαλῆν τῶν σοφῶν τὸ κεφάλαιον Jul.''Or.''3.125d: hence, of qualities, etc., <b class="b3">σχεδόν τι τὸ κεφάλαιον τῶν κακῶν</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[avarice]]) Apollod. Gel.4; τὸ κεφάλαιον τῆς [[εὐδαιμονία]]ς ἡ [[διάθεσις]] Diog.Oen.57.<br><span class="bld">4</span> Rhet., [[head]], [[topic]] of [[argument]], [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''1, ''Rh.''10.5, Str.1.2.31.<br><span class="bld">5</span> of money, [[capital]], opp. [[interest]] or [[income]], Pl.''Lg.''742c, D.27.64, etc.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[sum total]], IG12.91.23, al., Lys.19.40, D.27.10; <b class="b3">πολλοῦ κεφαλαίου</b> for a [[large]] [[sum]], Act. Ap.22.28, cf. Aristeas 24, Plu.''Fab.''4, etc.; κεφάλαια ἀργυρικά ''PRyl.''133.15 (i A.D.); also σιτικὰ καὶ ἀργυρικὰ κεφάλαια ''PSI''4.281.31 (ii A.D.).<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[crown]], [[completion]] of a thing, <b class="b3">τὸ μὲν κεφάλαιον τῶν ἀδικημάτων</b> the [[crown]]ing [[act]] of [[wrong]], D.27.7; δύο ταῦτα ὡσπερεὶ κ. ἐφ' ἅπασι… ἐπέθηκε Id.21.18.<br><span class="bld">7</span> [[chapter]], [[section]], PGnom.Prooem., Ammon.''in Int.''1.17, al., Chor.in ''Hermes'' 17.223; distinguished from [[τίτλος]], Suid. s.h.v.