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μέρος, εος, τό,
(μείρομαι) first in [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 399 (see. infr. IV), “hymnus ad Mercurium” 53 (see. infr. II. 2)] Refs]:— share, portion, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.77, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.145, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.167 (from Cyrene), etc.; μέρος ἔχοντα Μουσᾶν 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 3.71; ἔχει δόμων μ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 483; κτεάνων μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1574 (_anapaest meter_); συμβαλέσθαι τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 41.11; τὰ μ. τινῶν κομίζεσθαι [prev. passage]; λαβεῖν τῆς μεθόδου τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295a3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of work put out to contract, allotment, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 22.463.7, 26. ] Refs]
__2 heritage, lot, destiny, μεθέξειν τάφου μ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 507; ἔχετον κοινοῦ θανάτου μ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 147 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦτο γὰρ.. σπάνιον μ. is a rare portion, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 474 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ μέρους προτιμᾶσθαι from considerations of rank or family, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II one's turn, ἐπείτε αὐτῆς μ. ἐγίνετο τῆς ἀπίξιος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.69; μ. ἑκατέρῳ νέμειν [prev. author] 2.173 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅταν ἥκῃ μ. ἔργων the turn or time for.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 827 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 540b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀγγέλου μ. his turn of duty as messenger, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 291. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 with Preps., ἀνὰ μέρος in turn, successively, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 478, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287a17; κατὰ μέρος “hymnus ad Mercurium” 53, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ μ. λέγειν severally, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 157b; κατὰ μέρη ἄκουε [prev. work] 182b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ κατὰ μέρος the particulars, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 23, “D.” 1.22; τὸ κατὰ μ. ἄστρον [prev. work]3.9; ἐν μέρεϊ] Refs 1st c.BC+] in turn, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.26, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κλῦθί νυν ἐν μ., ἀντάκουσον ἐν μ., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 332 (Lyric poetry), “Eu.” 198 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; by turns, in succession, [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 332, 1192, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.93; ἐν μ. καὶ ἐφεξῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 819b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τῷ μέρει in one's turn, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.70, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 452, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 32, 497, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 462a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τῷ μ. καὶ παρὰ τὸ μ. in and out of turn, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὰ μέρος in turn, by turns, ἄρχειν [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 10, cf. Ant. 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista 30.1, 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.8.10, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.33 P.; [ἡ ψυχὴ] παρὰ μ. ἐν τῇ γενέσει γίνεται καὶ ἐν τοῖς θεοῖς ἐστιν 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 206 ] Refs 1st c.AD+] (but also, partially, [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.66). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__III the part one takes in a thing, μέτεστι χὑμῖν τῶν πεπραγμένων μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1299 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑμέτερον μ. [ἐστί] with infinitive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 180a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 frequently in periphrases, τοὐμὸν μέρος, τὸ σὸν μ., my or thy part, i.e. simply I or me, thou or thee, ὅσον τὸ σὸν μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1509, compare “Ant.” 1062, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 45d: _absolutely_ as ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb, τοὐμὸν μ. as to me, οὐ καμῇ τοὐμὸν μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1215, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 678 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ σὸν μέρος as to thee, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1366; τοὐκείνου μ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 989: rarely, κατὰ τὸ σὸν μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 328e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV part, opposed to the whole, ὡρέων τρίτατον μ. [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 399, etc.] Refs]; τρίτον κασιγνητᾶν μ., i. e. one of three sisters, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 12.11; μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ δύο μ. two-thirds,[[ [prev. work] 104, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.143, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.101; τρία μέρη.., τὸ δὲ τέταρτον 1st c.BC: Nicolaus Damascenus Historicus 130.17 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν ἂν μέρος οὖσαι φανεῖεν τῶν.. no fraction of.., i. e. infinitesimal compared with.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.43, compare 12.54 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅσα ἄλλα μ. ἐντὸς τοῦ Ἴστρου parts of the country, regions, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, compare 4.98 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξυγκαταδουλοῦν.. τὸ τῆς θαλάσσης μ., i. e. the sea as their part of the business, [[ [prev. author] 8.46 ] Refs]: hence, branch, business, matter, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 17, “Pk.” 107, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.4.2, 1.20.8, +others, “PRyl.” 127 (1st c.AD)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ τοῦ σώματος μέλη καὶ μ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 795e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; division of an army, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.23, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; class or party, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.292 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the factions in the circus, πρασίνων μ. [[ “POxy.” 145.2 (6th c.AD)] Refs 6th c.AD+]; party in a contract or lawsuit, [[ “BGU” 168.24 (2nd c.AD), “PRein.” 44.34 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; caste, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.39 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—special uses, in Geometry texts, direction, ἐπὶ θάτερον μ. interpolated in [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἰσορροπιῶν” 1.13, compare 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1.27, +others] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: Arith., submultiple, [[ [prev. author] 7 “Def.” 3, 4] Refs]; τὰ μ. the denominators of fractions, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “*Stereom.” 2.14: Grammars, μ. τῆς λέξεως] Refs 2nd c.BC+] part of speech, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456b20, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 2: more frequently μ. λόγου 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.4, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 4.6, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. λόγου, also, = word, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.159, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 1.4 (see. λόγος I 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 3 c)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; section of a document, Mitteis [[ “Chr.” 28.30 (3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__IV.2 _absolutely_ as adverb, μέρος τι in part, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.30, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέρος μέν τι.., μέρος δέ τι.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ πλεῖστον μ. for the most part, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 22.10. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__IV.2.b with Preps., κατά τι μέρος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 757e; κατὰ τὸ πολὺ μ. [prev. author] “Ti.” 86d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ μέρους in part, γινώσκομεν [[ NT.1Cor.13.9 (but ἐκ μ. τινός] NT] by the side of, [[ LXX.1Ki.6.8 ] LXX]; ἐκ μ. τῶν ὁρίων[[LXX.Num.20.16; ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς μέρους [prev. work] 8.2)] LXX]; ἐκ τοῦ πλείστου μ. for the most part, [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.2.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀπὸ μέρους in part, [[ Antip.Stoic. 3.249, “BGU” 1201.15 (1st c.AD), NT.2Cor.2.5; ἐπὶ μέρους 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Bis Acc.” 2; τὰς ἐπὶ μέρους γράφειν πράξεις] NT+1st c.AD+] special histories, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.7.6; αἱ ἐπὶ μ. συντάξεις [prev. author] 3.32.10 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; πρὸς μέρος in proportion, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.22, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.32. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.3 ἐν μέρει τινὸς τιθέναι, etc., to put in the class of.., consider as so and so, εἰ ἐν ἀρετῆς τιθεῖς μέρει τὴν ἀδικίαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348e; οὐ τίθημ᾽ ἐν ἀδικήματος μ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.148; also ἐν τεκμηρίου μ. ποιεῖσθαι τἀδίκημα [prev. author] 44.50 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν οὐδενὸς εἶναι μ. to be as no one, [[ [prev. author] 2.18; μήτ᾽ ἐν ἀνθρώπου μ. μήτ᾽ ἐν θεοῦ ζῆν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 240.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἐν προσθήκης μ. as an appendage, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.8; ἐν ὑπηρέτου καὶ προσθήκης μ. γίγνεσθαι [prev. author] 3.31; ἐν χάριτος μ. [prev. author] 21.165; τοῦτ᾽ ἐν εὐεργεσίας ἀριθμήσει μ. [prev. work]166; ἐν ἰδιώτου μ. διαγαγεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.24; ὡς ἐν παιδιᾶς μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 424d; also εἰς εὐεργεσίας μέρος καταθέσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.4 in local sense, district, [[ POxy. 2113.25 (4th c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__IV.5 in Neo-Platonism, by way of species or element, ἐν μέρει καὶ ὡς στοιχεῖον [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 193 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; οὕτω ὁ μέγας Ἰάμβλιχος ἐνόησεν τὸ ἓν ὂν ἐν μέρει ἑκάτερον[[ [prev. work] 176; πάντα μὲν ἅμα, ἐν μέρει δὲ ἕκαστον 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.6.18. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
