ἄκρον, ου, τό,
(neuter of ἄκρος) like{ἄκρα}, highest or farthest point:
__1 mountain top, peak, Γάργαρον ἄκρον Ἴδης[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.292; ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.597] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ ἄκρα heights, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.100, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 110e, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__1.b ἄκρα νάων ships' tops, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 12.9. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__2 headland, cape, Σούνιον ἄκρον Ἀθηνέων[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.278. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 end, extremity, τὰ ἄ. τῆς θαλάσσης, [τοῦἀέρος], [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 109d, 109e] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄκρα χειρῶν hands, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 6] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἐξ ἄκρων at the end, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 29; ἐξ ἄκρου “Comica Adespota” 398; ἐπ᾽ ἄκροις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 220d] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—border, frontier, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.42.2. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, highest pitch, height, πανδοξίας ἄκρον[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.11] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἄκρον ἀνδρείας ἱκέσθαι to highest pitch, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 58] Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἰς ἄκρον ἁδύς exceedingly, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.61] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἄκρον ἀφικέσθαι, ἐλθεῖν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 268e, “Ti.” 20a; πρὸς ἄκρῳ γενέσθαι [prev. author] “Phdr.” 247b; ἄκρον ἔχων σοφίης “epigram Gr.” 442 (from Nabataea)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄκρον ἐρώτων εἰδότος, ἄκρα μάχας[[ “Anthologia Graeca” 7.448 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus):] Refs 1st c.AD+] —ἄκρα, τά, heights, highest point, οὔτοι ποθ᾽ ἥξει (sic) τῶν ἄκρων ἄνευ πόνου[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 397] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄκρα φέρεσθαι win prize, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 12.31; ἄκρα φέρουσ᾽ ἀρετῆς ὑμῖν “epigram Gr.” 224.2 (from Samos). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]