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ἄκρα , Ion. ἄκρη , ἡ, (fem. of ἄκρος)
A.highest or farthest point:
1. headland, cape, Il.4.425, 14.36, Od.9.285, S.Tr.788, Pl.Criti.111a: metaph., “ἄκρην πενίης οὐχ ὑπερεδράμομεν” Thgn.619, cf. A.Eu.562; “κάμπτειν” Men.4.
2. hill-top, height, Od.8.508, Hymn.Is.72 (pl.).
3. of a wave, crest, “οὐ γὰρ ὑπερθεῖν κύματος ἄκραν δυνάμεσθα” E.Fr.230.
4. Hom. only in phrase κατ᾽ ἄκρης, νῦν ὤλετο πᾶσα κατ᾽ ἄκρης Ἴλιος αἰπεινή from top to bottom, i.e. utterly, Il.13.772; “κατ᾽ ἄ. Ἴλιον ἑλέειν” 15.557, cf. 24.728, Hdt.6.18, Th.4.112; “κατ᾽ ἄ. ἐξαιρεῖν” Pl. Lg.909b; γῆν πατρῴαν . . πρῆσαι κατ᾽ ἄ. utterly, S.Ant.201: metaph., κατ᾽ ἄ. ὡς πορθούμεθα how utterly . .! A.Ch.691, cf. S.OC1242, E.IA 778; but ἔλασεν μέγα κῦμα κατ᾽ ἄ. from above, Od.5.313.
5. citadel built on a steep rock overhanging a town (usu. ἀκρόπολις), X. An.7.1.20, Hyp.Lyc.Fr.3, Luc.Bis Acc.13.
6. end, extremity, Arist.HA512a6, 518a9: Math., of lines, Papp.682.14; of the extremes in a proportion, Id.70.6, Euc.6.16, etc.
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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