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ἄκρον , ον, τό, (neut. of ἄκρος)
A.like ἄκρα, highest or farthest point:
1. mountain top, peak, “Γάργαρον ἄκρον Ἴδης” Il.14.292; “ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν” Od.11.597; τὰ ἄκρα heights, Hdt.6.100, Pl.Criti. 110e, etc.
b. ἄκρα νάων ships' tops, Alc.Supp.12.9.
2. headland, cape, “Σούνιον ἄκρον Ἀθηνέων” Od.3.278.
3. end, extremity, τὰ ἄ. τῆς θαλάσσης, [τοῦἀέρος], Pl.Phd. 109d, 109e; ἄκρα χειρῶν hands, Luc. Im.6; ἐξ ἄκρων at the end, Ar.Fr.29; “ἐξ ἄκρου” Com.Adesp.398; “ἐπ᾽ ἄκροις” Pl.Sph.220d:—border, frontier, Plb.1.42.2.
II. metaph., highest pitch, height, “πανδοξίας ἄκρον” Pi.N.1.11; εἰς ἄκρον ἀνδρείας ἱκέσθαι to highest pitch, Simon.58; εἰς ἄκρον ἁδύς exceedingly, Theoc. 14.61; ἐπ᾽ ἄκρον ἀφικέσθαι, ἐλθεῖν, Pl.Plt.268e, Ti.20a; “πρὸς ἄκρῳ γενέσθαι” Id.Phdr.247b; “ἄκρον ἔχων σοφίης” Epigr.Gr.442 (Nabataea); “ἄκρον ἐρώτων εἰδότος, ἄκρα μάχας” AP7.448 (Leon.):—ἄκρα, τά, heights, highest point, οὔτοι ποθ᾽ ἥξει (sic) “τῶν ἄκρων ἄνευ πόνου” S.Fr.397; ἄκρα φέρεσθαι win prize, Theoc.12.31; “ἄκρα φέρουσ᾽ ἀρετῆς ὑμῖν” Epigr.Gr. 224.2 (Samos).
2. of persons, Ἄργεος ἄκρα Πελασγοί pride of Argos, Theoc.15.142.
III. δρυὸς ἄκρα, = ἀκρόδρυα, ib.112.
IV. in Logic of Arist. τὰ ἄκρα are major and minor terms of syllogism, opp. to μέσον or middle, APr.25b36, al.
V. extremes in a proportion, Id.EN1133b2.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.100
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.292
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.278
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.597
    • Plato, Phaedo, 109d
    • Plato, Phaedo, 109e
    • Plato, Statesman, 268e
    • Plato, Sophist, 220d
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 247b
    • Plato, Critias, 110e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 20a
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 397
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.42.2
    • Lucian, Imagines, 6
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