ἀληθ-ής [ᾰ],
Doric dialect ἀλᾱθής, ές, (λήθω, ={λανθάνω}: ἀληθὲς τὸ μὴ λήθῃ ὑποπῖπτον[[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 62.51)] Refs]:—unconcealed, so true, real, opposed to false, apparent:
__I [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, opposed to ψευδής,in phrases ἀληθέα μυθήσασθαι, εἰπεῖν, ἀγορεύειν, ἀληθὲς ἐνισπεῖν, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.382, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.254, 3.254, 247, +others; in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and _Attic dialect_ τὸ ἀληθές, by Trag. crasis τἀληθές, _Ionic dialect_ τὠληθές (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.68, 69), or τὰ ἀληθῆ, by crasis τἀληθῆ, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀληθέϊ λόγῳ χρᾶσθαι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.14, etc.; οἱ ἀληθέϊ λόγῳ βασιλέες 1.120; ἀληθεστάτη πρόφασις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of persons, etc., truthful, honest (not in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, see below), ἀ. νόος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.92; κατήγορος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 439; κριτής 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.56] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἶνος ἀ. `in vino veritas', [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 217e; ὁ μέσος ἀ. τις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1108a20. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.3 of oracles, true, unerring, ἀλαθέα μαντίων θῶκον[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.6, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 993, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1537 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of dreams, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 710. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]