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κορυ^φ-αῖος , ὁ,
A.head man, chief, leader, “αὐτὸς ἕκαστος βουλόμενος κ. εἶναι” Hdt.3.82; τῶν ἀνδρῶν τοὺς κ. ib.159, cf. 6.23, 98, Pl.Tht.173c; οἱ κ. party-leaders, Plb.28.4.6, cf. Phld.Sto.Herc.339.11; in the Drama, leader of the chorus, “ἡγεμὼν τῆς φυλῆς κ.” D.21.60 codd., cf. Arist.Pol.1277a11, Posidon.15J., etc.; κ. ἑστηκώς standing at the head of the row, Ar.Pl.953.
II. as Adj., at the top, ὁ κ. πῖλος the apex of the Roman flamen, Plu.Marc.5; τὰ κ. τῆς νίκης the crowning fruits of . . , Hdn.8.3.5; “κ. τέλος τῶν πραγμάτων” Id.7.5.2; τοῦ λαμπροῦ -αῖον (sc. αἴτιον) Phld.Po.2.41.
2. epith. of Zeus, CIG4458.4 (Seleucia in Pieria); of the Roman Jupiter Capitolinus, Paus.2.4.5: Sup. κορυφαιότατος in later Gr., “κ. ἀρχαί” CIG3885 (Eumeneia), cf. Plu.2.1115b, Luc.Sol.5, Hist.Conscr.34.
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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    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 953
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 60
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.82
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.23
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.4.5
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 173c
    • Polybius, Histories, 28.4.6
    • Plutarch, Marcellus, 5
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 34
    • Lucian, Soleocista, 5
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