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ἀκρι_β-ής , ές,
A.exact, accurate, precise, E.El.367, etc.; “σημεῖον” Th.1.10; “δίαιτα” Hp.Aph.1.4; τριταῖος returning precisely at its time, Id.Epid.1.24; γαλήνη complete calm, Jul. Or.1.25c.
II. of persons, precise, strict, “δικασταί” Th.3.46; “ἐπίσκοποι” Pl.Lg.762d; “δεινὸς καὶ ἀ.” Lys.7.12; ἀ. τοῖς ὄμμασι sharp- sighted, Theoc.22.194; of arguments, Ar.Nu.130; “ἀ. μουσική” E. Supp.906, etc.; τὸ ἀ., = ἀκρίβεια, Hp.VM9; “τὸ πάνυ ἀ.” Th.6.18: freq.in Adv. -βῶς to a nicety, precisely, ἀ. εἰδέναι, ἐπίστασθαι, καθορᾶν, μαθεῖν, etc., Hdt.7.32, etc.; “ἀ. οἶσθα” A.Pr.330; opp. ἁπλῶς, Isoc.5.46; opp. τύπῳ (in outline, roughly), Arist.EN1104a2: Comp. “-έστερον” Pl.R.436c, Act.Ap.18.26: Sup. “-έστατα” Pl.R.484c; ἀ. καὶ μόλις with greatest difficulty, Plu.Alex.16:—also οὐκ εἰς ἀκριβὲς ἦλθες at the right moment, E.Tr.901.
2. in the strict sense of the word, “ὁ ἀ. ἰατρός” Pl.R.342d; ὁτῷἀ. λόγῳ ἰατρός ib.341c.
b. pure-bred, genuine, “Κόλ χος” Eun.Hist.p.263D.
c. Astron., true, opp. φαινόμενος, Procl. Hyp.4.31.
3. parsimonious, stingy, “ἀ. τοὺς τρόπους” Men.235. Adv. “-βῶς, διαιτᾶσθαι” And.4.32.—Rare exc. in Att., mostly Prose. (The sense points to ἄκρος as the first part of the word, but -ι_βης remains dub.)
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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