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εἰλικριν-ής , ές,
A.unmixed, without alloy, pure, “ἐκ πυρὸς τοῦ -εστάτου καὶ ὕδατος” Hp. Vict.1.35; θέρμη, ψῦξις, Id.VM19; διὰ τὸ εἰλικρινῆ ἕκαστα εἶναι (sc. τὰ φῦλα) distinct and separate, X.Cyr.8.5.14; “εἴ τῳ γένοιτο αὐτὸ τὸ καλὸν ἰδεῖν εἰ., καθαρόν, ἄμεικτον” Pl.Smp.211e; τὸ ἧττον εἰ., opp. τὸ καθαρώτερον, Arist.Mete.340b8; “τῶν χρωμάτων οὐδὲν ὁρῶμεν εἰ. οἷόν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ πάντα κεκραμένα” Id.Col.793b13; “τὸ λευκὸν [μέλι] οὐκ ἐκ θύμου εἰλικρινοῦς” Id.HA627a3; “εἰ. καὶ ἀμιγής” Id.de An.426b4; “ἐν μεγάλῳ εἰ. καὶ κενῷ” Epicur.Ep.2p.37U. (fort. καὶ εἰ.）“; τὸ ἓν εἰ. καὶ καθαρόν” Plu. 2.393c.
2. pure, simple, absolute, αὐτῇ καθ᾽ αὑτὴν εἰλικρινεῖ τῇ διανοίᾳ χρώμενος the pure and absolute intellect, Pl.Phd.66a; ψυχὴν αὐτὴν καθ᾽ αὑτὴν εἰ. ἀπαλλάξεσθαι ib.81c; γνωσόμεθα . . πᾶν τὸ εἰ. the pure and absolute, ib.67b; τὸ καθαρόν τε καὶ εἰ. Id.Phlb.52d; “τὰς τέρψεις εἰ. ἀποδιδόναι” Isoc.1.46; ἡδονὴ εἰ. Arist.EN1176b20; “εὐπορία -εστάτη” Epicur.Sent.14; also of evil things, sheer, absolute, “ἀδικία” X.Mem.2.2.3.
3. sincere, “ἀπόδεξις” OGI227.12 (Didyma, iii B. C.); εὔνοια ib.763.41 (Milet., ii B. C.); of persons, Ep.Phil.1.10. Adv. -“νῶς” OGI441.5 (i B. C.).
4. total, “ἐκλείψεις” Cleom.2.5.
II. Adv. -νῶς without mixture, of itself, simply, absolutely, “διὰ τὸ εἰ. εἶναι Ἕλληνας καὶ ἀμιγεῖς βαρβάρων” Pl.Mx.245d; τὸ εἰ. ὄν absolute being, Id.R.477a; “εἰ. ὑπὸ τοῦ ἔρωτος ὡρμημένους” Id.Smp.181c; “εἰ. ὅλον λευκόν” Arist.Ph.187b4; without qualification, -“νῶς Ταραντῖνοι” Arr.Tact. 4.6: Ion. εἰλικριν-έως , κρίνεσθαι to have a clear crisis, Hp.Epid.4.7.—The word is confined to Prose.
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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    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1176b.20
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 46
    • New Testament, Philippians, 1.10
    • Plato, Republic, 477a
    • Plato, Phaedo, 66a
    • Plato, Phaedo, 67b
    • Plato, Phaedo, 81c
    • Plato, Philebus, 52d
    • Plato, Symposium, 181c
    • Plato, Symposium, 211e
    • Plato, Menexenus, 245d
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.5.14
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.2.3
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 19
    • Arrian, Tactica, 4.6
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