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ἄκος , εος, τό, (ἀκέομαι)
A.cure, remedy, c. gen. rei, “κακῶν” Od.22.481, etc.; “νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων” A.Ch.71; “κύβους . . τερπνὸν ἀργίας ἄ.” S.Fr. 479.4; “κακὸν κακῷ διδοὺς ἄ.” Id.Aj.363: abs., “ἄ. εὑρεῖν” Il.9.250; δίζησθαι, ἐξευρεῖν, ἐκπονεῖν, λαβεῖν, Hdt.1.94, 4.187, A.Supp.367, E.Ba. 327; ἄκη ποιεῖσθαι, c. dat., Pl.Lg.910a: in medical sense, Hp.Acut.1; by a medical metaph., ἄ. ἐντέμνειν, τέμνειν, A.Ag.17, E.Andr.121; “ἄ. τομαῖον” A.Ch.539: ἄ. [ἔστι], c. inf., ἄ. γὰρ οὐδὲν τόνδε θρηνεῖσθαι it boots not to . . , Id.Pr.43.
2. means of obtaining a thing, c. gen., “σωτηρίας” E.Hel.1055.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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