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κύριος [ῡ], α, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 732, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 143, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1306b20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Thess. κῦρρος [[ “IG” 9(2).517.20 (Larissa, 3rd c.BC): (κῦρος) (not in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]:
__I of persons, having power or authority over, with genitive, Ζεὺς ὁ πάντων κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).53, compare “P.” 2.58; ἐμῶν τε καὶ σῶν κ. πιστωμάτων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 878 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὶν ἄν σε κ. στήσω τέκνων put thee in possession of.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1041; κύριοι πολιτείας 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.1.1; κ. καταλύσεως 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.20; εἰρήνης καὶ πολέμου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.2.18; - ώτατοι τοῦ ἱεροῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.53 (but ὁ -ώτατος θεὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ] Refs 5th c.BC+], of the god to whom a temple is dedicated, [[ “OGI” 90.39 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC))] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τῶν αὑτοὺ κ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 929d, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.34, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θανάτου κ. τινός with power of life and death over, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 120d; κ. περί τινος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1286a24. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 κύριός εἰμι with infinitive, I have authority to do, am entitled to do, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 104 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὗτος κ. ὁρκωμοτεῖν (probably to be read instead of -ῶν) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1189; κ. ἀπολέσαι, σῶσαι δ᾽ ἄκυροι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.9, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.63, 8.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ώτεροι δοῦναι better able to give, [[ [prev. author] 4.18; οὐ.. κ. οὔτε ἀνελέσθαι πόλεμον οὔτε καταλῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.27; δοῦλοι κ. μαστιγοῦν τοὺς ἐλευθέρους 4th c.BC: Ephorus Historicus 29 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; αἱ ἀρχαὶ κ. κρίνειν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287b16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also κ. τοῦ μὴ μεθυσθῆναι having power not to.., [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1113b32 ] Refs]: with accusative et infinitive, κ. εἶναι ἢ τοίαν εἶναι [πόλιν] ἢ τοίαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 429b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __I.3 followed by a dependent clause, κ. γενέσθαι, ὅντινα δεῖ καταστήσασθαι [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.4 with participle, πριαμένους τι ἢ πωλοῦντας κυρίους εἶναι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.34; κ. ἦν πράσσων ταῦτα [prev. author] 8.51, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.37.8, 18.37.10; κύριοι ἐόντω συλέοντες “Schwyzer” 337.13 (Delph.). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.5 absolutely, having authority, supreme, τί τῶνδε κυριωτέρους μένει; [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 965; - ώτερος σέθεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 505 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ πατὴρ μέχρι τούτου κ. [ἐστι] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1402a1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ κ. the sovereign power in a state, [[ [prev. author] “Pol.” 1281a11, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 565a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ κ. the supreme authorities, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.259, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1365b27; τὰ τῆσδε τῆς γῆς κ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 915 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Athens, κ. ἐκκλησία a sovereign or principal assembly, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 19, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 43.4, “IG” 12.42.22, +others, 22.493.8, etc.; ἀγορὰ κ. [prev. work]1298.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II of things, ὁ τῆς ὥρας τῆς καταρχῆς κ. [ἀστήρ] [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Serapio Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 1.99] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: but usually absolutely, authoritative, decisive, δίκαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heracl.” [same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.88, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 50b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῦθος -ώτερος of more authority, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 318 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ωτάτη τῶν ἐπιστημῶν [ἡ πολιτική] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1282b15; αἱ -ώτεραι ἀρχαί [prev. author] “Cael.” 285a26, compare “Metaphorical” 997a12; [ἡ φρόνησις] τῆς σοφίας κυριωτέρα [prev. author] “EN” 1143b34 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; -ωτέρα ἡ καθόλου [ἀπόδειξις] [[ [prev. author] “APo.” 86a23; τάραχος ὁ -ώτατος 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.30U. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of sovereign remedies, - ωτάτη τῶν καθάρσεων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 230d; - ωτάτη κένωσις 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.299 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; important, principal, κ. δόξαι, of certain doctrines of Epicurus, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.86 W.; τὰ -ώτατα μέρη τῆς φύσεως 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 9; - ώτερα μέρη τοῦ σώματος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 50 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ -ώτατα the principal organs, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.385] Refs 2nd c.AD+] (but, the most important matters, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 16); τὸ -ώτατον τῆς Ἐφέσου 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.22.4: Grammars, κ. τόνος] Refs 4th c.BC+] principal accent, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus “Supp.” 674.32. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 opposed to ἄκυρος, valid, νόμος, δόγματα, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 926d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ποιεῖν [τὴν γνῶσιν], opposed to ἄκυρον π., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.92, compare 39.15; τὰς συνθήκας κυρίας ποιεῖν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.15; ἡ συγγραφὴ ἥδε κ. ἔστω “PEleph.” 1.14 (4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔστω τὰ κριθέντα κ. Legal cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.94; so τὰς τῶν ἄλλων δόξας κ. ποιεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 179b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 of times, etc., ordained, appointed, ἡ κυρίη ἡμέρη [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.50, compare 93 (_plural_); ἡ κ. τῶν ἡμερέων [prev. author] 1.48, 6.129; κ. ἐν ἡμέρᾳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 732; τόδε κ. ἦμαρ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 105 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; κ. μήν, of a woman with child, i.e. the ninth month, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅταν τὸ κ. μόλῃ φάος (probably) the appointed time, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 766 (Lyric poetry); κ. μένει τέλος [prev. author] “Eu.” 544 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ κ. [ἡμέρα] [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.84, cf. Test.[prev. work] 93;] Refs 4th c.BC+] but αἱ κ. [ἡμεραι], ={κριτικαί}, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ παθῶν” 9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 legitimate, lawful, ὕπνος πόνος τε, κ. ξυνωμόται [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 127, compare 327 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κύρι᾽ ἔχοντες having lawful power, [[[prev. work] 960 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs]
__II.5 ἡ κ. ἀρετή goodness proper, real goodness, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1144b4; [φλοιὸς] ὁ κ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.15.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Rhet. and Grammars, κ. ὄνομα the real or actual, hence current, ordinary, name of a thing, opposed to μεταφορά, γλῶττα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1404b6, 1410b12, “Po.” 1457b3, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 21, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 10.13, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σπάνει κυρίου ὀνόματος for lack of a current term, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 24 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; -ώτατα ὀνόματα most ordinary terms, [[[prev. work] 3 (hence also κ. ὄνομα ] Refs]proper, personal name, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.46.10, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 10.11, +others, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 7.5.8 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὄνομα alone in this sense, [[ 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.213)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κ. [λέξεις] [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.181 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸν κ. τρόπον, opposed to καταχρωμένη, [[[prev. work]1.59 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III adverb κυρίως, see entry
__B substantive κύριος, ὁ, lord, master, τοῖσι κ. δωμάτων [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 658, compare 689, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 734, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ κ. alone, head of a family, master of a house (compare [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 965), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 6, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1269b10; τοὺς κ. τῶν οἰκιῶν “PTeb.” 5.147 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, guardian of a woman, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.32, “PGrenf.” 2.15 i 13 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+], etc.: generally, guardian, trustee, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 2.10, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.15, 46.19, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 89, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.b later κύριε, as a form of respectful address, sir, [[NT.John.12.21, 20.15, NT.Act.16.30 (_plural_), “PFay.” 106.15 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] NT+2nd c.AD+]
__B.2 feminine κυρία, ἡ, mistress, lady of the house, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 223, LXX.Isa.24.2, etc.; κ. τῆς οἰκίας 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 403 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]: in vocative, madam, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 48.44 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; applied to women from fourteen years upwards, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 40 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]. (In later Gr. frequently written κύρα, [[ “PGrenf.” 1.61.4 (6th c.AD), etc.) ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__B.2.b epithet of Ἶσις, [[ “OGI” 180 (Egypt, 1st c.BC), etc. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.3 of gods, especially in the East, Σεκνεβτῦνις ὁ κ. θεός [[ “PTeb.” 284.6 (1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; Κρόνος κ. [[ “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4521 (Abila, 1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; Ζεὺς κ. [[ “Supp.epigram” 2.830 (Damascus, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; κ. Σάραπις [[ “POxy.” 110.2 (2nd c.AD); ἡ κ. Ἄρτεμις “IG” 4.1124 (Tibur, 2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of deified rulers, τοῦ κ. βασιλέος θεοῦ [[ “OGI” 86.8 (Egypt, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; οἱ κ. θεοὶ μέγιστοι, of Ptolemy XIV and [[ Cleopatra, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1902.1096: hence, of rulers in general, βασιλεὺς Ἡρώδης κ. “OGI” 415 (Judaea, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of Roman Emperors, [[ “BGU” 1200.11 (from Augustus), “POxy.” 37 i 6 (from Claudius), etc. ] Refs]
__B.4 ὁ Κύριος, = Hebrew [[ “Yahweh”, LXX.Gen.11.5, +others] LXX]; of Christ, [[ NT.1Cor.12.3, etc. ] NT]
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