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καιρ-ικός , ἡ, όν,
A.timely, “ἀπαγγελίαι” IG3.769.
2. appropriate to certain times or seasons, seasonable, “ἄνθη” PMag.Leid.W.24.1.
b. Astrol., belonging to the καιρός or chronocratory, “κ. Χρόνοι Ἀφροδίτης” Nech. ap. Vett.Val.289.37.
c. Astron., ὧραι κ. hours of the kind that vary in length with the season, opp. ἰσημεριναί, Ptol.Alm.4.11, 7.3, Tetr.76.
3. Gramm., temporal, Eust.17.3.
4. καιρικαὶ βαφαί, dub. sens. in Zos.Alch.p.246B., cf. p.228, 239, al.
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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