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κάρτα^ (cf. κράτος), Adv., freq. in Ion. and Trag., rare in Com. and Att. Prose (v. infr.):—with Adjs. and Advbs.,
A.very, extremely; with Verbs, very much; “κ. κακῶς ῥιγῶ” Hippon.16; “ἐσθλοὺς κ. μαχητάς” Aristeas Epic.Fr.3; κ. ἀπὸ θερμέων Χωρέων very hot, Hdt.2.27; κ. θεραπεύειν τινά, opp. μετρίως, Id.3.80; “κ. δεόμενος” Id.8.59; “κ. ὀξύ” Hp. Acut.58; “κ. πρευμενεῖς” A.Ag.840; “κ. ἰδεῖν ὁμόπτερος” Id.Ch.174; “εἰ καὶ μακρὰ κ. ἐστίν” S.Tr.1218; “ὥς σου κ. νῦν μνείαν ἔχω” E.Med.328, cf. 222, etc.; once in Pl., “πηλοῦ κ. βραχέος” Ti.25d; ληρεῖς ἔχων κ. Ar. Av.342 (troch.).
2. surely, in very deed, “κ. δ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἐγχώριος” A.Th. 413; κ. δ᾽ ὢν ἐπώνυμος true to thy name, Id.Eu.90, cf. Th.658; κ. δ᾽ εἰμὶ τοῦ πατρός all on the father's side, Id.Eu.738; “κ. δ᾽ εἴσ᾽ ὅμαιμοι” Id.Th.939 (lyr.); ἦ κ. Id.Ag.592, 1252, S.El.312, 1278, etc.; “σὺ δὲ κ. φείδῃ” Amips.22.
3. καὶ κ., used to increase the force of a previous statement, “τὰ ἀνέκαθεν λαμπροί, ἀπὸ δὲ Ἀλκμέωνος . . καὶ κ. λαμπροί” Hdt.6.125; esp. in dialogue, yes, verily, ἦ γάρ τινες ναίουσι . . ; Answ. “καὶ κ. . . ” S.OC65; ἆρ᾽ ἄν τί μου δέξαιο . . ; Answ. “καὶ κάρτα γ́” E.Hipp. 90; once in Ar., “καὶ κ. μέντἂν . . καθείλκετε” Ach.544; in Hdt. also, τὸ κ. 1.71, 4.181; esp. with a slightly iron. sense, with a vengeance, “ἐς ὂ δὴ καὶ τὸ κ. ἐπύθοντο” 1.191, cf. 3.104, 6.52.
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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