καιρός, ὁ,
due measure, proportion, fitness (not in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus), καιρὸς δ᾽ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἄριστος (which became a proverbial) 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 694, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 401; κ. παντὸς ἔχει κορυφάν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.78; κ. Χάριτος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 787 (_anapaest meter_) (compare ὑποκάμπτω 11)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰ ὁ κ. ἦν σαφής the distinction, the point, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 386 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἀπορία ἔχει τινὰ κ. has some point or importance, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1043b25 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; καιροῦ πέρα beyond measure, unduly, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 507; μείζων τοῦ κ. γαστήρ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.19; καιροῦ μεῖζον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 626 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] codices; προσωτέρω or πορρωτέρω τοῦ κ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.34, “HG” 7.5.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀξύτερα τοῦ κ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 307b; νωθεστέρα τοῦ κ. [prev. work] 310e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπερβάλλων τῇ φιλοτιμίᾳ τὸν κ. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Agesilaus” 8, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον” 44. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II of Place, vital part of the body [[compare (καίριος 1), ἐς καιρὸν τυπείς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1120. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III more frequently of Time, exact or critical time, season, opportunity, Χρόνου κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1292 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: usually alone, κ. [ἐστιν] ἐν ᾧ Χρόνος οὐ πολὺς κτλ. [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Praec.” 1, cf. Chrysipp. et 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in Daremberg] Refs 5th c.BC+] Notices etextr. des MSS. médicaux[[ 1p.200; κ. ὀξύς 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. πρὸς ἀνθρώπων βραχὺ μέτρον ἔχει 'time and tide wait for no man', [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.286 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ὄλβου, ={καίριος ὄλβος}, [[ [prev. author] “N.” 7.58 ] Refs]; δηλοῦν, ὅ τι περ δύναται κ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 576 codices (sed to be read δύνασαι)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τίνα κ. τοῦ παρόντος βελτίω ζητεῖτ; [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.16 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κ. δόσιος for giving, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. τοῦ ποτισμοῦ, τῆς τρύγης, [[ “BGU” 1003.12 (3rd c.BC), “PStrassb.” 1.8 (V 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator); τὰ ἐκ τοῦ κ. προγινόμενα 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.32.3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; καιρὸν παριέναι to let the time go by, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.27 (so in _plural_, τοὺς κ. παριέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 374c; τοὺς κ. ὑφαιρεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.66); κ. τῶν πραγμάτων τοῖς ἐναντίοις καθυφιέναι καὶ προδοῦναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καιροῦ (τοῦ κ.) τυχεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 593, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 687a, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 281; καιρὸν εἰληφέναι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.6 (but καιρὸς ἐλάμβανε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.34; compare καιροῦ διδόντος 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 45.7); καιροῦ λαβέσθαι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 13; καιρὸν ἁρπάσαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 15; κ. τηρεῖν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1382b11; καιρῷ Χρήσασθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καιρῷ Χειμῶνος ξυλλαβέσθαι co-operate with the occurrence of a storm, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 709c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχει κ. τι it happens in season, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.42, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἔχειν τοῦ εὖ οἰκεῖν to be the chief cause of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 421a; ὑμέας καιρός ἐστι προβοηθῆσαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.144, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 523, etc.; νῦν κ. ἔρδειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1368: sometimes with _Article_, ἀλλ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁ κ... ξένους.. τυγχάνειν τὰ πρόσφορα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 710; ὁ κ. ἐστι μὴ μέλλειν ἔτι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 661, compare “Pl.” 255. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]