Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“ἤρκει” Il.13.440, A.Pers.278: fut. ἀρκέσω: aor. ἤρκεσα, Dor. “ἄρκεσα” Pi.O.9.3:—Med., aor. ἠρκεσάμην, 2sg. ἠρκέσω dub. in A.Eu.213 (s.v.l.):—Pass., inf. “ἀρκέεσθαι” Hdt.9.33, ἀρκεῖσθαι Poet. ap. Greg.Cor.p.425 S.: pf. “ἤρκεσμαι” Sthenid. ap. Stob.4.7.63: aor. “ἠρκέσθην” Plu.Pel.35, Luc.Salt.83: fut. “ἀρκεσθήσομαι” D.H.6.94, D.S.1.8, etc.:—ward off, keep off, c. dat. pers. et acc. rei, “σάκος τό οἱ ἤρκεσε λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον” Il.20.289, cf. 6.16; “πατρίδι δουλοσύνην” Simon. 101; “κῆρας μελάθροις” E.El.1300 (lyr.); “ὅς οἱ ἀπὸ χροὸς ἤρκει ὄλεθρον” Il.13.440, cf. 15.534; “τοῦτό γ᾽ ἀρκέσαι” S.Aj.535; ὡς οὐκ ἀρκέσοι τὸ μὴ οὐ . . θανεῖν would not keep off death, ib.727.

2. c. dat. only, defend, “πυκινὸς δέ οἱ ἤρκεσε θώρηξ” Il.15.529; οὐδ᾽ ἤρκεσε θώρηξ, without dat., 13.371.

3. assist, succour, 21.131, Od.16.261, S.Aj.824, El. 322, E.Hec.1164.

II. c. acc. cogn., make good, achieve, “οὐδ᾽ ἔργα μείω χειρὸς ἀρκέσας ἐμῆς” S.Aj.439.

III. mostly in Trag., and always in Prose, to be strong enough, suffice, c. inf., first in Pi.O.9.3; ἀρκῶ σοι σαφηνίσαι （-σας Linwood) A.Pr.621 codd., cf. S.OT1209 (lyr.): c. part., ἀρκέσω θνῄσκουσ᾽ ἐγώ my death will suffice, Id.Ant.547; cf. “ἀρκοῦμεν ἡμεῖς οἱ προθνῄσκοντές σεθεν” E.Alc.383; ἔνδον ἀρκείτω μένων let him be content to stay within, S.Aj.76; “ἀρκεῖν γὰρ οἶμαι μίαν ψυχὴν τάδ᾽ ἐκτίνουσαν” Id.OC498; “οὔτε ἰατροὶ ἤρκουν θεραπεύοντες” Th.2.47; ellipt., σοφοὺς ὥσπερ σύ, μηδὲν μᾶλλον: ἀρκέσουσι γάρ [σοφοὶ ὄντες] E.Heracl.576; “ἀ. εἴς τι” X.Cyr.8.2.5; “πῶς ἡ πόλις ἀρκέσει ἐπὶ τοιαύτην παρασκευήν;” Pl.R.369d; ταὐτὸν ἀρκεῖ σκῶμμα ἐπὶ πάντας holds equally for all, Id.Tht.174a; ὅτ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἀρκεῖ [ἡ μάθησις] when it avails no more, S.Tr.711.

2. c. dat., suffice for, satisfy, “οὐδὲ ταῦτά τοι μοῦνα ἤρκεσε” Hdt.2.115, cf. S.Ant.308, etc.

3. to be a match for, c. dat., “ψιλὸς ἀρκέσαιμι σοί γ᾽ ὡπλισμένῳ” Id.Aj.1123; “πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους” Th. 6.84.

4. abs., to be enough, avail, endure, “ἀρκείτω βίος” A.Ag.1314; “οὐδὲν γὰρ ἤρκει τόξα” Id.Pers.278; holdout, last, “ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀρκεῖν” Th. 1.71, X.Cyr.6.2.31; οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀρκῶ I can hold out no longer, S.El.186 (lyr.); ὥστε ἀρκεῖν πλοῖα to be sufficient in number, X.An.5.1.13: freq. in part., ἀρκῶν, οῦσα, οῦν, sufficient, enough, “βίος ἀρκέων ὑπῆν” Hdt.1.31, cf. 7.28; “τἀρκοῦντα” a sufficiency, E.Supp.865; “ἀρκοῦσα ἀπολογία” Antipho 2.4.10; ἀρκοῦντα or τἀρκοῦντα ἔχειν, X.Mem.1.2.1, Smp.4.35; “τῶν ἀρκούντων περιττὰ κτᾶσθαι” Id.Cyr.8.2.21.

5. impers., ἀρκεῖ μοι 'tis enough for me, I am well content, c. inf., “οὐκ ἀρκέσει ποθ᾽ ὑμὶν . . εἴκειν” S.Aj.1242, cf. X.An.5.8.13: c. acc. et inf., “ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀρκεῖ τοῦτον ἐν δόμοις μένειν” S.Aj.80; ἀρκεῖ ἢν . . , ὅτι . . , X.Cyr.8.1.14, Mem. 4.4.9; ἔμ᾽ ἀρκεῖ βουλεύειν 'tis enough that I . . , A.Th.248; οὐκ ἀρκοῦν μοί ἐστι, c. acc. et inf., Antipho 2.2.2; ἀρκεῖν δοκεῖ μοι it seems enough, seems good, S.El.1364.

IV. in Pass., to be satisfied with, c. dat. rei, Poet. ap. Greg.Cor.l.c.; “ἔφη οὐκέτι ἀρκέεσθαι τούτοισι” Hdt.9.33, cf. Pl.Ax.369e, Arist.EN1107b15, AP6.329 (Leon.), Plot.5.5.3: abs., ib.3.6, etc.

2. later, c. inf., to be contented to do, Plb.1.20.1, Ps.-Luc.Philopatr.29, etc.