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κρι^τ-ι^κός , ή, όν,
A.able to discern, critical, “δύναμις σύμφυτος κ.Arist. APo.99b35; “οὐκ ἔχει ῥῖνα κριτικὴν πρὸς τοὖψονPosidipp.1.4; “αἰσθήσεις κ.Phld.Mus.p.8 K.; τὸ κ. the power of discerning, Arist.de An.432a16; κριτική (sc. τέχνη) Pl.Plt.260c, etc.: c. gen., “ γεῦσις τῶν σχημάτων κριτικωτάτηArist.Sens.442b17, cf. Thphr.Sens.43, Ocell.2.7; of persons, [“τὸν ὅλως πεπαιδευμένον] περὶ πάντων ὡς εἰπεῖν κ. τινὰ νομίζομεν εἶναιArist.PA639a9: esp. in language, grammarian, scholar, literary critic, Pl.Ax.366e, Phld.Po.5.24, Str.9.1.10, etc.; of Crates, Ath. 11.490e, who distd. κ. and γραμματικός, S.E.M.1.79; εἰ δύναταί τις εἶναι κ. καὶ γραμματικός, title of work by Galen (Libr.Propr.17); but “τῶν ὕστερον γραμματικῶν κληθέντων πρότερον δὲ κ.D.Chr.53.1, cf. Apollod. ap. Clem.Al.Strom.1.16.79; “οἱ κ. τῶν λόγωνPhilostr.VS 2.1.14; πρὸς τοὺς κ., title of work by Chrysippus, Stoic.2.9; κ., opp. γραμματική, Taurisc. ap. S.E.M.1.248, cf. Sch.DTp.3 H. Adv. -“κῶς, ἔχειν τινόςArtem.4Praef., cf. Erot.Praef.p.7 N., Men.Rh. p.391 S.
2. of or for judging, ἀρχὴ κ. the office of judges, opp. ἀρχὴ βουλευτική, Arist.Pol.1275b19.
II. = κρίσιμος, ἑβδομάς Ph.1.45 (Sup.), cf. Plu.2.134f, Gal.9.93, al. Adv. -“κῶςId.UP17.2, al.
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    • Plato, Statesman, 260c
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.1.10
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 53.1
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.1.14
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