Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ὡραῖος

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I.produced at the right season (ὥρα), seasonable, timely: esp. of fruits, like Lat. hornus (from hora), βίος or βίοτος ὡρ. store of fruits gathered in due season, Hes.; ὡρ. καρποί the fruits of the season, Hdt.; so ὡραῖα, ων, τά, Thuc., Xen.:—also of animals, ὡρ. ἄρνες yearling lambs, Anth.

2.ἡ ὡραία, like ὥρα 1. 2, the summer season, esp. the months during which the troops kept the field, Dem.; —but also, τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐχ ὕει it does not rain in the season (sc. of rain), Hdt.

II.happening or done in season, in due season, seasonable, ἄροτος, ἔργον Hes.; ὡραῖόν ἐστι the weather is fair, Plut.

2.metaph. seasonable, due, proper, ὡραῖα ἱερά Plat.

III.of persons, seasonable or ripe for a thing, c. gen., γάμων or γάμου ὡραίη Hdt.; ἐς ἥβην ὡρ. γάμων Eur.: —of old persons, ripe for death, πατήρ γε μὴν ὡραῖος id=Eur.; ὡραίῳ ἕσταμεν βίῳ id=Eur.

2.in the bloom of youth, blooming, Hes., Xen.:—generally, beautiful, NTest.

1 ὡραῖος, η, ον

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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