ἡλῐκί-α,
Ionic dialect ἡλικίη, Doric dialect ἁλικία, ἡ, (ἧλιξ) time of life, age, ἤν πως ἡλικίην αἰδέσσεται ἠδ᾽ ἐλεήσῃ γῆρας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.419; γηραιὸν μέρος ἁλικίας 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.157; παρὰ τὸν ἁλικίας ἐοικότα χρόνον [prev. author] “O.” 4.29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τήνδ᾽ ἡ. ἀστῶν, i.e. their old age, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 914 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: accusative used adverbially, in age, νέος ἡλικίην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134; ἐτέων ἐὼν ἡλικίην πέντε καὶ τριήκοντα [prev. author] 1.26, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: so in dative, ἡλικίᾳ ἔτι τότε ὢν νέος [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.43 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προεληλυθότες ταῖς ἡ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.1.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ὑπὸ τῆς ἡ. from our age, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 180d; αἱ δι᾽ ἡλικίαν ἄτοκοι [prev. author] “Tht.” 149c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐν τῇ αὐτῆ ἡ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.80 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἀχρεῖον τῆς ἡ. [[ [prev. author] 2.44 ] Refs]; ὅταν.. τοῦ γεννᾶν ἐκβῶσι τὴν ἡ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 461b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόρρω τῆς ἡ. to an advanced age, [[ [prev. author] “Grg.” 484c ] Refs]; προήκων ἐς βαθὺ τῆς ἡ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 514 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προϊούσης τῆς ἡ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 279a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ παρ᾽ ἡλικίαν νοῦς beyond one's age, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 690: in _plural_, ἐν ἁπάσαις ταῖς ἡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 412e, compare “Lg.” 625b, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 prime of life, manhood, ἐν ἁλικίᾳ πρώτᾳ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.42; αὐτὴ ἡ ἡ. τῶν νέων κατέκρινε 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.4.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡλικίαν ἔχειν, εἰς ἡ. ἐλθεῖν, ἀφικέσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 306d, “Tht.” 142d, “Men.” 89b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡλικίην ἔχειν with infinitive, to be of fit age for doing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.209, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 146b; ἡλικίας μετέχειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐν τῇ ἡλικίᾳ men of military age, [[ [prev. author] 8.75; ἐν ἡλικίᾳ στρατεύεσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.7; ἐστρατευμένος ἁπάσας τὰς ἐν ἡλικίᾳ στρατείας [prev. author] 21.95; οἱ τῆς ἡ. ἐντὸς γεγονότες 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.50 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ καθεστηκυῖα ἡ. maturity, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.36, compare “IG” 12(7).239.21 (from Amorgos)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of women, womanhood, marriageable age, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.30, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.22; αἱ ἐν ἡ. γυναῖκες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 461b; τὴν ἡλικίαν τὴν ἑαντοῦ καταμεμψάμενος 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.14: in _plural_, οἱ ταῖς ἡ. οὐ καλῶς κεχρημένοι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.194. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]