καλός: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[καλός]], ή, όν<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[beautiful]], beauteous, [[fair]], Lat. [[pulcher]], of [[outward]] [[form]], Hom., etc.; καλὸς [[δέμας]] [[beautiful]] of [[form]], Od.; so, [[εἶδος]] [[κάλλιστος]] Xen.; καλὸς τὸ [[σῶμα]] Xen.; c. inf., κ. [[εἰσοράασθαι]] Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> τὸ [[καλόν]], like [[κάλλος]], [[beauty]], Eur., etc.: τὰ [[καλά]] the decencies, proprieties, elegancies of [[life]], Hdt., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in [[reference]] to use, [[beautiful]], [[fair]], [[good]], κ. [[λιμήν]] Od.; καλὸς εἴς τι Xen.; πρός τι Plat.; c. inf., [[κάλλιστος]] τρέχειν Xen.;—esp. in the foll. phrases, ἐν καλῷ [τόπῳ] in a [[good]] [[place]], Thuc.; ἐν καλῷ τοῦ κόλπου, τῆς πόλεως Xen.; ἐν κ. (sub. χρόνῳ), in [[good]] [[time]], in [[season]], Eur.:—so, [[καλόν]] ἐστι, c. inf., Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of sacrifices, [[good]], [[auspicious]], Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> in [[moral]] [[sense]], [[beautiful]], [[noble]], [[καλόν]] [ἐστι] c. inf., Hom., etc.; καλὰ ἔργματα [[noble]] deeds, Pind., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> τὸ [[καλόν]] [[moral]] [[beauty]], [[virtue]], opp. to τὸ αἰσχρόν ([[Cicero]]'s [[honestum]] and [[turpe]]), Xen., Plat.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> in [[attic]] not [[seldom]] [[ironically]], like Lat. [[praeclarus]], [[admirable]], [[specious]], [[fair]], κ. γὰρ οὑμὸς [[βίοτος]], [[ὥστε]] θαυμάσαι Soph.; μετ' ὀνομάτων [[καλῶν]] Thuc.<br />B. Degrees of comp.: comp. [[καλλίων]] ([[short]] ι) ον, Sup. [[κάλλιστος]], η, ον, Hom., etc.<br />C. adv.:— [[καλόν]] as adv., καλὸν ἀείδειν, etc., Hom.; so [[καλά]] Il.; τὸ [[καλόν]] Theocr.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> regul. adv. [[καλῶς]], [[mostly]] in [[moral]] [[sense]], well, [[rightly]], Od.; [[καλῶς]] ζῆν, τεθνηκέναι, etc., Soph., etc.; οὐ [[καλῶς]] ταρβεῖς Soph.; often in [[phrase]] [[καλῶς]] καὶ εὖ, [[καλῶς]] τε καὶ εὖ Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of [[good]] [[fortune]], well, [[happily]], κ. πράσσειν = εὖ πράσσειν to [[fare]] well, Aesch., etc.; κ. ἔχειν to be well, Aesch.; κ. [[ἔχει]], c. inf., 'tis well to…, Xen.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[καλῶς]] = [[πάνυ]], [[right]] well, κ. [[ἔξοιδα]] Soph.; so in comp., [[κάλλιον]] [[εἰδέναι]] Plat.; and in Sup. [[κάλλιστα]], Soph., etc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> κ. ποιῶν, as adv., [[rightly]], [[deservedly]], Lat. [[merito]], κ. ποιῶν ἀπόλλυται Ar.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> in answers, to [[approve]] the words of the [[former]] [[speaker]], well said! Lat. [[euge]], Eur., Dem.:—but, also, to [[decline]] an [[offer]] [[courteously]] or [[ironically]], [[thank]] you! Lat. [[benigne]], Ar.; and in Sup., κάλλιστ', ἐπαινῶ Ar.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> [[ironically]], [[finely]], Lat. [[belle]], Soph., Eur.<br />D. Quantity: ᾱ in epic Poets: ᾰ in [[attic]]: in [[later]] Poets ᾰ or ᾱ, as the [[verse]] requires.