ἀτρεκής: Difference between revisions

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