Included with: σύντομ-ος, ον,
cut short, abridged, especially of a road, ἀτραπὸς ξ. a short cut, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 123; ἡ κατάβασις -ωτέρη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.223; τὰ σύντομα τῆς ὁδοῦ [prev. author] 1.185, 4.136 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ώτατον the shortest cut, [[ [prev. author] 2.158, 4.183; τὰ -ώτατα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σύντομος (i.e. ὁδός) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.13, etc.; -ωτάτη ὁδός 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus (?) 135; τὴν -ωτάτην.. ἦγε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.21; compare συντέμνω 11, 111. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of language, concise, brief, μῦθος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 698 (troch.), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 784 (_superlative_), etc] Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ώτερος ὁ λόγος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.27; σ. λέξις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1414a25; ἐπεισόδια [prev. author] “Po.” 1455b16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἀνάμνησις a concise summary, [[ [prev. author] “Rh.Al.” 1433b29; διαλογισμός 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.35U. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; φανῶ.. σημεῖα τῶνδε σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 710 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ σ. conciseness, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Veterum Censura” 3.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 of other things, -ωτάτη διαπολέμησις [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἐμβολή, παρουσία, etc., [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.78.6, 11.1.1, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]