A.agreeable to truth:
1. of persons, truthful, trusty, στράτευμα, φίλοι, X.An.1.9.17, D.9.12, cf. Posidipp.26. Adv. “-νῶς, φιλεῖν” X.Smp.9.5: Sup. “-ώτατα” Plb.39.37.
2. of things, true, genuine, Pl.R.499c, Arist.EN1107a31 (Comp.); esp. of purple, “πορφυρίς” X.Oec.10.3, cf. Edict.Diocl.24.6; ἰχθύς Amph.26; “πέλαγος” Men.65; “λόγος” Id.Sam.114; τὰ ἀ. real objects, opp. τὰ γεγραμμένα, Arist.Pol.1281b12; of persons, ἐς ἀ. ἄνδρ᾽ ἀποβῆναι to turn out a genuine man, Theoc.13.15: Astron., true (opp. φαινόμενος apparent), of risings and settings, Autol.1 Def.1, al.
II. Adv. -νῶς truly, really, opp. γλίσχρως, Isoc.5.142; ζῶντα ἀ. really alive, Pl.Ti.19b; “ἀ. γεγάμηκεν” ; Antiph.221.
2. honestly, straightforwardly, OGI 223.17 (Erythrae).