ἀκμή, ἡ,
(compare ἀκή A) point, edge: proverbial, ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἀκμῆς on the razor's edge (see. entry ξυρόν); ἀ. φασγάνου, ὅπλων, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.81, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.16.3 (_plural_); ὀδόντων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.63, etc.; λόγχης ἀκμή 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 318; κερκίδων ἀκμαί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 976] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀμφιδέξιοι ἀ. both hands, [[ [prev. author] “OT” 1243] Refs]; ποδοῖν ἀ. feet, [[[prev. work] 1034] Refs]; ἔμπυροι ἀκμαί pointed flames, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1255, compare πυρὸς ἀκμαί 4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 6 codices ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II highest or culminating point of anything, flower, prime, zenith, especially of man's age, ἀκμὴ ἥβης[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 741; ἐντῇδε τοῦ κάλλους ἀκμῇ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 195; σώματός τε καὶ φρονήσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 461a; μέτριος χρόνος ἀκμῆς 460e; ὀξυτάτη δρόμου ἀ. [prev. passage]; ἀ. βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.20, etc.; ἐν ταύταις ταῖς ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.37] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἀκμῇ εἶναι, of corn, to be ripe, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.2; ἀκμὴν ἔχειν τῆς ἄνθης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 230b; τοσοῦτον τῆς ἀ. ὑστερῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 6.4] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς ἀ. λήγειν begin to decline, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 219a:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —in various relations, ἀ. ἦρος spring-prime, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.64] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. θέρους mid-summer, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.19; βραχεῖα ἀ. πληρώματος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.14] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῦ ναυτικοῦ flower of their navy, [[ [prev. author] 8.46; ἀ. τῆς δόξης [prev. author] 2.42; ἡ ἀ. τῆς Σπάρτης, τῶν νέων 4th c.BC: Demades Orator 12] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀ. νούσου crisis of disease, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 38] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—generally, strength, vigour, ἐν χερὸς ἀκμᾷ[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.63, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 1060] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ποδῶν swiftness, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).41, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 370; φρενῶν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.39] Refs 5th c.BC+]; συμπεσεῖν ἀκμᾷ βαρύς conjecture [[ [prev. author] “I.” 4(3).51] Refs]: periphrastic like{βία}, ἀκμὴ Θησειδᾶν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1066. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]