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ἀτρεκ-ής , ές,
2. sure, certain,ποδὶ ἀτρεκέϊId.N.3.41; “. δόξαE.Hipp.1115 (lyr.).
II. Hom. has only Adv. ἀτρεκέως (neut. as Adv., “ἀτρεκὲς . . βαλώνaccurately, Il.5.208 (expld. as Adj. by Eust. ad loc.); “δεκὰς .precisely, Od.16.245): mostly with the Verbs ἀγορεύειν, καταλέξαι, tell truly, exactly, Il.2.10, Od.1.169, etc.; “. μαντεύσομαι17.154; “. ἔφρασενIG3.716; “. ὀλίγοιThgn. 636; freq. in Hdt., “. εἰπεῖν1.57,al.; “εἰδέναι1.209, al.; “ἐπίστασθαι3.130; “ἐκμαθεῖν7.10.“ή; διακρῖναι1.172; “διασημῆναι5.86; “φαίνειν2.49; “. ἀριθμεῖσθαιHp.Prog.20; . ὅμοιον precisely similar, Diog. Apoll.5.
3. neut. as Adv. (cf. supr. 11.1), “τὸ δ᾽ ἀτρεκὲς ὄλβιος οὐδείςThgn.167; “ἐπ᾽ ἀτρεκέςIG9(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 .Plb.1.4.9, “. τοͅιακάςPlu.Rom.12; 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.
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    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1115
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    • Homer, Iliad, 5.208
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    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 3.8.9
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    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 11.1
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    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 20
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.12
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