ἀκμή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, (cf. [[ἀκή]] A)<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[point]], [[edge]]: [[proverb|prov.]], [[ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἀκμῆς]] = [[on the razor's edge]] (v. sub [[ξυρόν]]); <b class="b3">ἀκμὴ φασγάνου, ἀκμὴ ὅπλων</b>, Pi.''P.''9.81, Plb.15.16.3 (pl.); ὀδόντων Pi.''N.''4.63, etc.; λόγχης ἀκμή E.''Supp.''318; κερκίδων ἀκμαί S.''Ant.''976; <b class="b3">ἀμφιδέξιοι ἀ.</b> both [[hand]]s, Id.''OT''1243; <b class="b3">ποδοῖν ἀ.</b> [[feet]], ib.1034; <b class="b3">ἔμπυροι ἀκμαί</b> [[pointed]] flames, E.''Ph.''1255, cf. [[πυρὸς]] ἀκμαί Epicr.6codd.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[highest]] or [[culminating point]] of anything, [[flower]], [[prime]], [[zenith]], especially of man's age, ἀκμὴ ἥβης [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''741; ἐντῇδε τοῦ κάλλους ἀκμῇ Cratin.195; σώματός τε καὶ φρονήσεως Pl.''R.''461a; μέτριος χρόνος ἀκμῆς 460e; <b class="b3">ὀξυτάτη δρόμου ἀ.</b> ibid.; ἀκμὴ βίου [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''7.2.20, etc.; ἐν ταύταις ταῖς ἀ. Isoc.7.37; <b class="b3">ἐν ἀκμῇ εἶναι</b>, of corn, to be [[ripe]], Th.4.2; ἀκμὴν ἔχειν τῆς ἄνθης [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedrus|Phdr.]]''230b; τοσοῦτον τῆς ἀ. ὑστερῶν Isoc. ''Ep.''6.4; <b class="b3">τῆς ἀ. λήγειν</b> begin to decline, Pl.''Smp.''219a:—in various relations, <b class="b3">ἀκμὴ ἦρος</b> [[spring]]-[[prime]], Pi.''P.''4.64; <b class="b3">ἀκμὴ θέρους</b> [[mid]]-[[summer]], X. ''HG''5.3.19; βραχεῖα ἀκμὴ πληρώματος Th.7.14; <b class="b3">ἀκμὴ τοῦ ναυτικοῦ</b> [[flower]] of their navy, Id.8.46; ἀκμὴ τῆς δόξης Id.2.42; ἡ ἀκμὴ τῆς [[Σπάρτη]]ς, τῶν νέων Demad.12; <b class="b3">ἀκμὴ νούσου</b> [[crisis]] of [[disease]], Hp.''Acut.''38:—generally, [[strength]], [[vigour]], ἐν χερὸς ἀκμᾷ Pi.''O.''2.63, cf. [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''1060; <b class="b3">ἀκμὴ ποδῶν</b> [[swiftness]], Pi.''I.''8(7).41, cf. A.''Eu.''370; φρενῶν Pi.''N.''3.39; <b class="b3">συμπεσεῖν ἀκμᾷ βαρύς</b> cj. Id.''I.''4(3).51: [[periphrasis]] like [[βία]], ἀκμὴ Θησειδᾶν [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]'' 1066.<br><span class="bld">2</span> Rhet., <b class="b3">ἀκμὴ λόγου</b> [[supreme]] [[effort]], [[culmination]], [[climax]], Hermog.''Inv.''4.4, ''Id.''1.10; pl., ib.''ΙΙ'', cf. Philostr.''VS''1.25.7.<br><span class="bld">III</span> of [[time]], like [[καιρός]], the [[time]], i.e. [[best]], [[most]] [[fitting]] [[time]], freq. in Trag., ἡνίκ' ἂν δὴ πρὸς γάμων ἥκητ' ἀκμάς [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1492; <b class="b3">ἔργων, λόγων, ἕδρας ἀκμή</b> [[time]] for doing, speaking, sitting still, Id.''El.''22, ''Ph.''12, ''Aj.''811: c. inf., κοὐκέτ' ἦν [[μέλλειν]] ἀ. [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''407, cf.''Ag.''1353; ἀπηλλάχθαι δ' ἀ. S.''El.''1338; σοὶ . . ἀ. [[φιλοσοφεῖν]] Isoc.1.3; ὁ καιρὸς ἔστ' ἐπ' αὐτῆς τῆς ἀκμῆς Ar.''Pl.''256; <b class="b3">ἐπ' ἀκμῆς εἶναι</b>, c. inf., to be on [[point]] of [[doing]], E.''Hel.'' 897; <b class="b3">εἰς ἀκμὴν ἐλθὼν φίλοις</b> [[in the nick of time]], E.''HF''532; <b class="b3">ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἥκει τὴν ἀκμήν</b> it is [[come]] to the [[critical]] [[time]], D.4.41; <b class="b3">ἀκμὴν εἴληφεν</b> have [[reach]]ed a [[critical]] [[moment]], Isoc.''Ep.''1.1, cf. Plu.''Sol.''12, 15, 2.656f.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[eruption]] on [[face]], Cass.''Pr.''13, Aët.7.110, 8.13 (f.l. [[ἀκνάς]], whence mod. [[acne]]). ἄκμη, v. [[ἄκμηνος]].