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πλάτος (A) [α^], εος, τό, （πλατύς)
A.breadth, width, “σώματος” Simon.188, etc.: abs., τὸ π. or π., in breadth. Hdt.1.193, 4.195, X.Oec.19.3; “ἴση μῆκός τε π. τε” Emp.17.20.
b. Math., breadth, i.e. the second dimension, “ἐν μήκει καὶ π. καὶ βάθει” Pl.Sph.235d, cf. Arist.Ph.209a5; κατὰ π., opp. κατὰ μῆκος, κατὰ βάθος, Id.Cael.299b26, Mete.341b34.
2. plane surface, Pl.Plt.284e, Lg.819e; “μεγέθους τὸ ἐπὶ δύο [συνεχὲς] π.” Arist.Metaph.1020a12.
3. latitude, whether terrestrial or celestial, Str.1.4.2, Cleom.1.4, 2.4, Ptol.Alm.2.12, Vett.Val.30.12.
4. metaph., plane, “ἐν τῷ ψυχικῷ π.” Procl.Inst.201.
5. plane of flat fish, Arist.HA489b33; flat of the tail, ib.549b1; flat part of the body of the fishing-frog, Id.PA695b15.
6. extension, breadth of a subject, Gal.1.316; “οὐκ ὀλίγον τὸ π.” Id.11.738.
7. = πλάτας, Judeich Altertümervon Hierapolis No.322, al.
II. metaph., range of variation, latitude, “π. ἔχειν” Plot.6.3.20; “ἡ ὑγίεια π. ἔχει” Gal.6.12, cf.11.737.
III. with Preps., ἐν πλάτει in a loose sense, broadly, Posidon. ap.Stob.1.8.42, Str.2.1.39, D.H.Comp.21, EM673.24; opp. κατ᾽ ἀκρίβειαν, S.E.M.10.108; “ὡς ἐν π.” Sor.1.24 (but περὶ ὧν ἐν τῷ π. λέγομεν which we will discuss in detail, D.L.7.76); also ἐπὶ πλάτει Ἑλληνίζειν talk loose Greek, Phld.Po.2.9; κατὰ πλάτος λέγεσθαι to be said loosely, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.164, cf. Sor.1.6, 21.
IV. = πλατύτης 3, Demetr. Eloc.177.
V. π. καρδίας, of Solomon, width of knowledge, LXX 3 Ki.2.35a.
VI. ἀργυρίου πλάτη, = δραχμαί, IG9(1).189.15 (Tithora, ii A.D.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.193
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.195
    • Plato, Laws, 819e
    • Plato, Sophist, 235d
    • Plato, Statesman, 284e
    • Strabo, Geography, 1.4.2
    • Strabo, Geography, 2.1.39
    • Xenophon, Economics, 19.3
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 21
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