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ὡραῖος, α, ον,
produced at the right season (ὥρα), seasonable, timely: especially of the fruits of the earth, βίος or βίοτος ὡ. store of fruits gathered in due season, [[8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 32, 307 ] Refs]; ὡ. καρποί the fruits of the season, καρποὺς.. κατατίθεσθαι ὡραίους to store them up in season, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202: frequently in _neuter_, ὡραῖα, τά, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, 3.58, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.3.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 845e; ἑραίως τὰ ὡραῖα ἀποδιδόναι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὡραῖα.. ἀποτελεῖν ἱερά to render fruits of the season as sacred offerings, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 116c, cf. Oracle texts cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.52; τρωκτὰ ὡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.3.12; ἄνθεα “Anthologia Graeca” 9.564 (from Nicias)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σῦκα [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “χρονίων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.3 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also of animals, ὡ. ἄρνες yearling, [[ Anthologia Graeca 6.157 (3rd c.BC: Theodoridas Epigrammaticus) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of tunnies at a year old (from six months to one year they were called πηλαμύδες), πηλαμὺς.. ὡραία θέρους τῷ Βοσπορίτῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 503 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὡ. θύννοι Ps.-[[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.116b, cf. Hices.[prev. work] 116e, 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 38.9, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Plautus Comicus Latinus “Capt.” 851] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τάριχος ὡ. fish salted or pickled in the season, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 186.5; ἰχθύες ἐς τάγηνον ὡ. 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 6.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; σαργάναι ὡ. pickling-tubs, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.27 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: hence generally, agricultural produce, εἶναι ἐνεχυρασίαν Αἰξωνεῦσιν ἐκ τῶν ὡ. τῶν ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου [[ “IG” 22.2492.8 (4th c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 τὰ ὡραῖα, ={τὰ καταμήνια}, especially at their first appearance, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 34. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 substantive ἡ ὡραία (in full, ὥρη ἡ ὡραίη [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.4, 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.128 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, etc.)] Refs 5th c.BC+], harvest-time, especially the twenty days before and twenty days after the rising of the dog-star, μίμνει ἐς ὡραίην till harvest-time, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1390. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3.b the campaigning-season, during which the troops kept the field, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.48, 56.30, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.16.7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3.c τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐκ ὕει it does not rain in the season (i.e. of rain), [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II happening or done in due season, seasonable, ἄροτος, ἔργον, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 617.642 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πλόος [[[prev. work] 630; χειμῶνες 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.14.1; ὕδατα [prev. author] “CP” 2.2.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σκαπάνη [[[prev. work] 3.16.1; τομὴ [καλάμου] [prev. author] “HP” 4.11.4 ] Refs]; ὅτε ὡραῖον εἴη when the weather permitted, [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Αιβυκή” 120. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2 metaphorically, (ὥρα (C) B) seasonable, due, proper, ὡραίων τυχεῖν, ={νομίμων τυχεῖν} (compare ὥριος (A). [[ 111.2), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 175: ἐν ὡραί[ᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ]] Refs 5th c.BC+] uncertain in [[ “SIG” 668.4 (Delphi, 2nd c.BC); ἐνιαύτια ὡ. [prev. work] 1025.37 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC),compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III of persons, seasonable or ripe for a thing, c.genitive, ἀνδρὸς ὡραίη [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.107, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γάμων or γάμου ὡραῖαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196, 6.122, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.9; ἐς ἥβην ὡραίαν γάμων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 12 (ὡραίων codices)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅστις οὐκέθ᾽ ὡραῖος γαμεῖ [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 804 ] Refs]; ὡ. γάμος seasonable marriage, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 55 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of old persons, ripe or ready for death, πατήρ γε μὴν ὡ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 516; αὐτὸς δ᾽, ἐν ὠ. γὰρ ἕσταμεν βίῳ, θνῄσκειν ἕτοιμος [prev. author] “Ph.” 968; θάνατος ὡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.3; σορός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1365; ὡραῖος ἀποτέθνηκεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.178e; so ὕλη ὡ. τέμνεσθαι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.1.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 in reference to age, in the prime of life, youthful, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 695 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence in the bloom of youth, opposed to ἄωρος, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.21, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 574c; ὡ. ἐὼν καὶ καλός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.94; παιδίσκη ὡραιοτάτη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1148 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Ra.” 291, 514; παῖς ὡραῖος [prev. author] “Av.” 138 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: but not necessarily implying beauty, τοῖς τῶν ὡραίων προσώποις, καλῶν δὲ μή [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 601b; ἄνευ κάλλους ὡραῖοι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1406b37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare ὥρα (C) [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.3 generally, of things, beautiful, graceful, [[ LXX.Gen.3.6, LXX.2Ch.36.19, NT.Matt.23.27; ἡ ὡ. πύλη τοῦ ἱεροῦ NT.Act.3.10, compare 3.2. ] LXX+NT]
__IV irregular superlative ὡραιέστατος [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 186d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V adverb ὡραίως [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
