| Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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kurios [u_], a, on, also os, on Aesch. Supp. 732, Eur. Heraclid. 143, Aristot. Pol. 1306b20:-- Thess. kurros IG9(2).517.20 (Larissa, iii B.C.): (kuros) (not in Hom.):
I. of persons, having power or authority over, c. gen., Zeus ho pantôn k. Pind. I. 5.53, cf. P.2.58; emôn te kai sôn k. pistômatôn Aesch. Ag. 878; prin an se k. stêsô teknôn put thee in possession of . . , Soph. OC 1041; kurioi politeias Antiph. 3.1.1; k. kataluseôs Thuc. 4.20; eirênês kai polemou Xen. Hell. 2.2.18; -ôtatoi tou hierou Thuc. 5.53 (but ho -ôtatos theos tou hierou, of the god to whom a temple is dedicated, OGI90.39 (Rosetta, ii B.C.)); tôn hautou k. Plat. Laws 929d, cf. Isoc. 19.34, etc.; thanatou k. tinos with power of life and death over, Plat. Criti. 120d; k. peri tinos Aristot. Pol. 1286a24.
2. kurios eimi c. inf., I have authority to do, am entitled to do, Aesch. Ag. 104 (lyr.); houtos k. horkômotein (prob. for -ôn) Eur. Supp. 1189; k. apolesai, sôsai d' akuroi Andoc. 4.9, cf. Thuc. 5.63, au=Thuc. 8.5; -ôteroi dounai better able to give, IDEM=Thuc. 4.18; ou . . k. oute anelesthai polemon oute katalusai Xen. Anab. 5.7.27; douloi k. mastigoun tous eleutherous Ephor.29 J.; hai archai k. krinein Aristot. Pol. 1287b16; also k. tou mê methusthênai having power not to . . , IDEM=Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1113b32: c. acc. et inf., k. einai ê toian einai [polin] ê toian Plat. Rep. 429b.
3. folld. by a dependent clause, k. genesthai, hontina dei katastêsasthai Isaeus 6.4.
4. c. part., priamenous ti ê pôlountas kurious einai Thuc. 5.34; k. ên prassôn tauta IDEM=Thuc. 8.51, cf. Plb.6.37.8, au=Plb. 18.37.10; kurioi eontô suleontes Schwyzer 337.13 (Delph.).
5. abs., having authority, supreme, ti tônde kuriôterous meneis; Aesch. Supp. 965; -ôteros sethen Eur. Ba. 505; ho patêr mechri toutou k. [esti] Aristot. Rh. 1402a1; to k. the sovereign power in a state, IDEM=Aristot. Pol. 1281a11, cf. Plat. Rep. 565a, etc.; ta k. the supreme authorities, Dem. 19.259, Aristot. Rh. 1365b27; ta têsde tês gês k. Soph. OC 915; at Athens, k. ekklêsia a sovereign or principal assembly, Aristoph. Ach. 19, Aristot. Ath. Pol. 43.4, IG12.42.22, al., au=IG 22.493.8, etc.; agora k. IBID=au=IG 1298.7.
II. of things, ho tês hôras tês katarchês k. [astêr] Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.1.99: but usu. abs., authoritative, decisive, dikai E.Heracl.l.c., Andoc. 1.88, Plat. Crito 50b; muthos -ôteros of more authority, Eur. IA 318 (troch.); -ôtatê tôn epistêmôn [hê politikê] Aristot. Pol. 1282b15; hai -ôterai archai IDEM=Arist.Cael.285a26, cf. ti=Aristot. Met. 997a12; [hê phronêsis] tês sophias kuriôtera IDEM=Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1143b34; -ôtera hê katholou [apodeixis] IDEM=Arist.APo.86a23; tarachos ho -ôtatos Epicur.Ep.1p.30U.; of sovereign remedies, -ôtatê tôn katharseôn Plat. Soph. 230d; -ôtatê kenôsis Gal.1.299; important, principal, k. doxai, of certain doctrines of Epicurus, Phld.Ir.p.86 W.; ta -ôtata merê tês phuseôs Epicur.Sent.9; -ôtera merê tou sômatos Philostr.Gym.50; ta -ôtata the principal organs, Gal.1.385 (but, the most important matters, Epicur.Sent.16); to -ôtaton tês Ephesou Philostr.VS1.22.4: Gramm., k. tonos principal accent, D.T.Supp. 674.32.
2. opp. akuros, valid, nomos, dogmata, Dem. 24.1, Plat. Laws 926d; k. poiein [tên gnôsin], opp. akuron p., Dem. 21.92, cf. au=Dem. 39.15; tas sunthêkas kurias poiein Lys. 18.15; hê sungraphê hêde k. estô PEleph. 1.14 (iv B.C.); estô ta krithenta k. Lexap.Dem. 21.94; so tas tôn allôn doxas k. poiein Plat. Theaet. 179b.
3. of times, etc., ordained, appointed, hê kuriê hêmerê Hdt. 5.50, cf. au=Hdt. 5.93=lr (pl.); hê k. tôn hêmereôn IDEM=Hdt. 1.48, au=Hdt. 6.129; k. en hêmerai Aesch. Supp. 732; tode k. êmar Eur. Alc. 105 (lyr.), etc.; k. mên, of a woman with child, i.e. the ninth month, Pind. O. 6.32; hotan to k. molêi phaos (prob.) the appointed time, Aesch. Ag. 766 (lyr.); k. menei telos IDEM=Aesch. Eum. 544 (lyr.); hê k. [hêmera] Dem. 21.84, cf. Test.IBID=au=Dem. 21.93=lr; but hai k. [hêmerai], = kritikai, Hp.Aff.9.
4. legitimate, lawful, hupnos ponos te, k. xunômotai Aesch. Eum. 127, cf. au=Aesch. Eum. 327; kuri' echontes having lawful power, IBID=au=Aesch. Eum. 960 (lyr.).
5. hê k. aretê goodness proper, real goodness, Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1144b4; [phloios] ho k. Thphr.HP4.15.1; Rhet. and Gramm., k. onoma the real or actual, hence current, ordinary, name of a thing, opp. metaphora, glôtta, Aristot. Rh. 1404b6, au=Aristot. Rh. 1410b12, ti=Aristot. Poet. 1457b3, cf. D.H. Comp.21, D.L.10.13, etc.; spanei kuriou onomatos for lack of a current term, D.H.Comp.24; -ôtata onomata most ordinary terms, IBID=au=D.H. Comp. 3 (hence also k. onoma proper, personal name, Plb.6.46.10, A.D.Pron. 10.11, al., Hdn.7.5.8; onoma alone in this sense, Diog.Bab.Stoic.3.213); k. [lexeis] Phld.Rh.1.181 S.; kata ton k. tropon, opp. katachrômenê, IBID=au=S. 1.59 S.
III. Adv. kuriôs , v. sub voc.
B. Subst. kurios, ho, lord, master, toisi k. dômatôn Aesch. Lib. 658, cf. au=Aesch. Lib. 689, Soph. Aj. 734, etc.; ho k. alone, head of a family, master of a house (cf. Sch.Aristoph. Kn. 965), Antiph. 2.4.7, Aristoph. Pl. 6, Aristot. Pol. 1269b10; tous k. tôn oikiôn PTeb.5.147 (ii B.C.); also, guardian of a woman, Isaeus 6.32, PGrenf.2.15 i 13 (ii B.C.), etc.: generally, guardian, trustee, Isaeus 2.10, Dem. 43.15, au=Dem. 46.19, Men.Epit.89, etc.
2. fem. kuria, hê, mistress, lady of the house, Philem.223, LXXIs.24.2, etc.; k. tês oikias Men.403: in voc., madam, D.C.48.44; applied to women from fourteen years upwards, Epict. Ench.40. (In later Gr. freq. written kura, PGrenf.1.61.4 (vi A.D.), etc.)
3. of gods, esp. in the East, Seknebtunis ho k. theos PTeb.284.6 (i B.C.); Kronos k. CIG4521 (Abila, i A.D.); Zeus k. Supp.Epigr.2.830 (Damascus, iii A.D.); k. Sarapis POxy.110.2 (ii A.D); hê k. Artemis IG 4.1124 (Tibur, ii A.D.); of deified rulers, tou k. basileos theou OGI86.8 (Egypt, i B.C.); hoi k. theoi megistoi, of Ptolemy XIV and Cleopatra, Berl.Sitzb.1902.1096: hence, of rulers in general, basileus Hêrôdês k. OGI415 (Judaea, i B.C.); of Roman Emperors, BGU1200.11 (Augustus), POxy.37 i 6 (Claudius), etc.
4. ho Kurios, = Hebr. ti=POxy. Yahweh, LXX Ge.11.5, al.; of Christ, 1 Ep.Cor.12.3, etc.
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