A.strict, precise, exact, ἀλάθεια, καιρός, Pi.N.5.17, P.8.7; “ἀριθμός” Hdt. 7.187; “δίαιτα” Hp.Mochl.42; “βιότου ἀ. ἐπιτηδεύσεις” over-nice, precise, E.Hipp.261; τὸ ἀ., = ἀτρέκεια, φράσαι, εἰπεῖν τὸ ἀ., Hdt.5.9,7.60; “τὸ -έστερον τούτων” more precise details, Id.5.54; “τὸ -έστατον” Id.7.214; “ἐγγὺς τοῦ -εστάτου ἥκειν” Hp.VM12; rarely of persons, exact, strict, “Ἑλλανοδίκας” Pi.O.3.12.
II. Hom. has only Adv. ἀτρεκέως (neut. as Adv., “ἀτρεκὲς . . βαλών” accurately, Il.5.208 (expld. as Adj. by Eust. ad loc.); “δεκὰς ἀ.” precisely, Od.16.245): mostly with the Verbs ἀγορεύειν, καταλέξαι, tell truly, exactly, Il.2.10, Od.1.169, etc.; “ἀ. μαντεύσομαι” 17.154; “ἀ. ἔφρασεν” IG3.716; “ἀ. ὀλίγοι” Thgn. 636; freq. in Hdt., “ἀ. εἰπεῖν” 1.57,al.; “εἰδέναι” 1.209, al.; “ἐπίστασθαι” 3.130; “ἐκμαθεῖν” 7.10.“ή; διακρῖναι” 1.172; “διασημῆναι” 5.86; “φαίνειν” 2.49; “ἀ. ἀριθμεῖσθαι” Hp.Prog.20; ἀ. ὅμοιον precisely similar, Diog. Apoll.5.
3. neut. as Adv. (cf. supr. 11.1), “τὸ δ᾽ ἀτρεκὲς ὄλβιος οὐδείς” Thgn.167; “ἐπ᾽ ἀτρεκές” IG9(1).880(Corc.).—The word and its derivs. are rare in Trag. and not found in Att. Prose, ἀκριβής and its derivs. being used instead: freq. in Ion. Prose, esp. in Hp. and Aret., SD2.12, al., and in later Prose, cf. “ἐπιστήμη καὶ γνώμη ἀ.” Plb.1.4.9, “ἀ. τοͅιακάς” Plu.Rom.12; ὁ σενᾶτος ἀτρεκῶς γερουσίαν σημαίνει strictly, ib. 13; οὐκ ἔφυγον δ᾽ ἀτρεκῶς not really, Epigr. Gr. 339.5; of persons, truthful, accurate, J.BJ3.8.9. (Cf. ἄτρακτος.)