κρῐτ-ῐκός, ή, όν,
able to discern, critical, [[ δύναμις σύμφυτος κ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 99b35; οὐκ ἔχει ῥῖνα κριτικὴν πρὸς τοὖψον 3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus 1.4; αἰσθήσεις κ. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] K.; τὸ κ. the power of discerning, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de An.” 432a16; ἡ κριτική (i.e. τέχνη) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Plt.” 260c, etc.: with _genitive_, ἡ γεῦσις τῶν σχημάτων κριτικωτάτη 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Sensu” 442b17, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Sens.” 43, 1st c.BC(?): Ocellus Lucanus Philosophus 2.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, [[[ τὸν ὅλως πεπαιδευμένον] περὶ πάντων ὡς εἰπεῖν κ. τινὰ νομίζομεν εἶναι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 639a9 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: especially in language, grammarian, scholar, literary critic, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ax.” 366e, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Po.” 5.24, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.1.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; of Crates, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.490e, who distinguished κ. and γραμματικός, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “M.” 1.79; εἰ δύναταί τις εἶναι κ. καὶ γραμματικός, title of work by Galen (“Libr.Propr.” 17); but τῶν ὕστερον γραμματικῶν κληθέντων πρότερον δὲ κ. Dio Chrysostomus Sophista [{1-2nd c.AD}] 53.1, compare 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus cited in 2nd-3rd c.AD: Clemens Alexandrinus Theologus “Strom.” 1.16.79; οἱ κ. τῶν λόγων Philostratus Sophista [{2-3rd c.AD}] “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.1.14 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; πρὸς τοὺς κ., title of work by Chrysippus, [[“Stoic.” 2.9; ἡ κ., opposed to ἡ γραμματική, Taurisc. cited in 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “M.” 1.248, cf. Scholia “DT” p] Refs 2nd c.AD+].3 H. adverb -[[ κῶς, ἔχειν τινός 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 4 “Praef.”, compare 1st c.AD: Erotianus Grammaticus “Praef.” p.7 N., 3rd c.AD: Menander Rhetor p.391 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]