ἄρκιος (root ἀρκ), helping, to be depended upon,
certain;
οὔ οἱ ἔπειτα | ἄρκιον ἐσσεῖται φυγέειν κύνας ἠδ᾽
οἰωνούς, ‘nothing shall avail him’ to
escape, Il. 2.393
; νῦν ἄρκιον ἢ ἀπολέσθαι
| ἠὲ σαωθῆναι, a
‘sure’ thing, i. e. no other alternative presents
itself, Il. 15.502; so, μισθὸς ἄρκιος, Κ 304, Od. 18.358, unless the word has here
attained to its later meaning of sufficient. Cf. ἀρκέω.