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ἄρκιος (A), α, ον Arat.741, ος, ον AP11.59 (Maced.): (ἀρκέω):—Ep. Adj.
A.to be relied on, sure, certain, οὔ οἱ ἔπειτα ἄρκιον ἐσσεῖται φυγέειν he shall have no hope to escape, Il.2.393; νῦν ἄρκιον ἢ ἀπολέσθαι ἠὲ σαωθῆναι one of these is certain, to perish or be saved, 15.502; μισθὸς δέ οἱ ἄ. ἔσται a sure reward, 10.304, cf. Od.18.358, but, a sufficient reward in Hes.Op.370; βίος ἄ. ib.501,577.
II. enough, sufficient, ἄρκιον εὑρεῖν to be sure of having enough, ib.351, A.R.2.799, Theoc. 8.13; ὄφρα . . σφίσιν ἄρκιος εἴη that he might be sufficient for them, Id.25.190; “δέμας ἄρκιος” Opp.C.3.185, cf. H.3.601; helpful, useful, “παντὶ γὰρ ἄ. ἐστι” Nic.Th.508, cf. Opp.C.3.173; ἄρκια νούσων remedies against . . , Nic.Th.837: c. inf., able to . . , Call.Fr.51a, cf. Cer.35. Adv. “-ίως” Hsch.
III. in comp. sense, “ἄρκιον ἦν θνᾴσκειν” it were better . . , AP9.154 (Agath.).
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 (9):
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 351
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 370
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 501
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 577
    • Homer, Iliad, 10.304
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.502
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.393
    • Homer, Odyssey, 18.358
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.799
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