ἀκριβής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἀκριβές,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[exact]], [[accurate]], [[precise]], E.''El.''367, etc.; σημεῖον Th.1.10; δίαιτα Hp.''Aph.''1.4; [[τριταῖος]] [[returning precisely]] at its time, Id.''Epid.''1.24; [[γαλήνη]] [[complete]] calm, Jul. ''Or.''1.25c.<br><span class="bld">II</span> of persons, [[precise]], [[strict]], δικασταί Th.3.46; ἐπίσκοποι Pl.''Lg.''762d; δεινὸς καὶ ἀκριβής Lys.7.12; [[ἀκριβὴς τοῖς ὄμμασι]] = [[sharp-sighted]], Theoc.22.194; of arguments, Ar.''Nu.''130; ἀ. μουσική E. ''Supp.''906, etc.; [[τὸ ἀκριβές]] = [[ἀκρίβεια]], Hp.''VM''9; τὸ πάνυ ἀκριβές Th.6.18: freq.in Adv. [[ἀκριβῶς]] = [[to a nicety]], [[precisely]], [[ἀκριβῶς]] [[εἰδέναι]], [[ἀκριβῶς]] [[ἐπίστασθαι]], [[ἀκριβῶς]] [[καθορᾶν]], [[ἀκριβῶς]] [[μαθεῖν]], etc., [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.32, etc.; ἀκριβῶς [[οἶσθα]] [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''330; opp. [[ἁπλῶς]], Isoc.5.46; opp. [[τύπῳ]] ([[in outline]], [[roughly]]), [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1104a2: Comp. ἀκριβέστερον Pl.''R.''436c, ''Act.Ap.''18.26: Sup. ἀκριβέστατα Pl.''R.''484c; [[ἀκριβῶς καὶ μόλις]] = [[with greatest difficulty]], Plu.''Alex.''16:—also [[οὐκ εἰς ἀκριβὲς ἦλθες]] = [[you did not come at the right moment]], E.''Tr.''901.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[in the strict sense of the word]], ὁ ἀκριβὴς [[ἰατρός]] = the [[doctor]] in the [[precise]] [[sense]] Pl.''R.''342d; ὁ τῷ ἀκριβεῖ λόγῳ ἰατρός ib.341c.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[pure-bred]], [[genuine]], [[Κόλχος]] Eun.''Hist.''p.263D.<br><span class="bld">c</span> Astron., [[true]], opp. [[φαινόμενος]], Procl. ''Hyp.''4.31.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[parsimonious]], [[stingy]], ἀκριβὴς τοὺς τρόπους Men.235. Adv. [[ἀκριβῶς]], [[διαιτᾶσθαι]] And.4.32.—Rare exc. in Att., mostly Prose. (The sense points to [[ἄκρος]] as the first part of the word, but ἀκρῑβης remains dub.)