__4 item or term in a series, ὁ δεύτερος ἀ.[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1014; τρίτον ὠδίνων ἀ. “epigram Gr.” 574; ναῦς πολλοὺς ἀ. ἄγνυται ναυαγίων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 410, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1461b24] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ἀ. τοῦ σώματος points of the body, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 668d; τοὺς ἀ. ἑκάστου τῶν νοσημάτων 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 3; τὸ καλὸν ἐκ πολλῶν ἀ. ἐπιτελεῖσθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.45c] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence as a mark of completeness, πάντας τοὺς ἀ. περιλαβών[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.16] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ καθήκοντος τοὺς ἀριθμούς the sum total of duty, [[ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 3.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__5 number, account, as a mark of station, worth, rank, μετ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ἵζει ἀριθμῷ takes his place among men, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.449; εἰς ἀνδρῶν μὲν οὐ τελοῦσιν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 492; εἰς ἀ. τῶν κακῶν πεφύκαμεν [prev. author] “Hec.” 1186] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ξενίας ἀριθμῷ πρῶτ᾽ ἔχειν ἐμῶν φίλων in regard of friendship, [[[prev. work] 794] Refs]; δειλοὶ γὰρ ἄνδρες οὐκ ἔχουσιν ἐν μάχῃ ἀριθμόν have no account made of them, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 519] Refs]; οὐδ᾽ εἰς ἀ. ἥκει λόγων she comes not into my account, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 1054; ἀ. οὐδεὶς οὐδὲ λόγος ἐστί τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.682f, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 27.6, Oracle texts cited in Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.48. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__6 mere number, quantity, opposed to quality, ταῦτ᾽ οὐκ ἀ. ἐστιν, ὦ πάτερ, λόγων a mere set of words, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 382 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of men, οὐκ ἀ. ἄλλως not a mere lot, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 476; ἀριθμός, πρόβατ᾽ ἄλλως 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1203] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sometimes even of a single man, οὐκ ἀριθμὸν ἀλλ᾽ ἐτητύμως ἄνδρ᾽ ὄντα not a mere unit, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 997] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἀριθμὸν πληροῦν to be a mere cipher, [[ 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor “Milt.” 66. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__II numbering, counting, μάσσων ἀριθμοῦ past counting, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 2.23] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially in phrases, ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι τῶν νεῶν to hold a muster of.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.7; ποιεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.7, etc.; παρεῖναι εἰς τὸν ἀ. [prev. work]II; εἴ τι δυνατὸν ἐς ἀ. ἐλθεῖν] Refs 5th c.BC+] can be stated in numbers, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.72. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VII unknown quantity (x), defined as πλῆθος μονάδων ἀορίστων, [[ 3rd c.AD: Diophantus Mathematicus “Def.” 2. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__VIII Rhet., rhythm in Prose, in plural, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 23, “Dem.” 52, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408b29; but also ἀριθμοὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων ποιητᾶν “SIG” 703.7 (Delph.). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IX line of a book, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus Cit. 2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__X sum of numerical values of letters in a name, [[ NT.Rev.13.17, +others] NT]; φιλῶ ἧς ἀριθμὸς φμέ Pompeian Inscription in [[ “Rend.Linc.” 10(1901).257. ] Refs]
__XII Astrology texts, mostly in plural, degrees traversed in a given time, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 112, 2nd c.AD: Dorotheus Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 6.107.30] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀ. at her normal speed, of the moon, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.531] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also of degrees of latitude, [[ 4th c.AD: Hephaestio Astrologus 2.8, 3.1. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__XIII in Medicine texts, in plural, precise conditions, παρόντων τῶν πρὸς τὴν φλεβοτομίαν ἀριθμῶν Herod.middle in [[ “Rh.Mus.” 58.71, compare 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.3, probably in 1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 9.2; compare above 1.4. [ῐ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1132, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1203.] (ἀρῐ-θμός from root ἀρι-, compare ἐπάριτος (which see), νήριτος.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
