ἀκρωτήριον, τό,
(ἄκρος) topmost or prominent part, ἀ. τοῦ οὔρεος mountain peak, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.217, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a cup, projecting part, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1024a25. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 cape, promontory, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.30. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II end or extremity of anything, ἀ. νεός ornament of ship's stern- or stem-post, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.121, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.8, 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 5.41, “Michel” 1116 (Delph.); ἀκρωτήρια πρύμνης “Hymni Homerici” 33.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 in plural, extremities of body, hands and feet, fingers and toes, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 7.1, “Acut.” 59, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.26] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἀ. τῆς Νίκης her wings, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.121, compare “IG” 2.652 A 23: _sing._, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 772b36. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3 in temples, etc., statues or ornaments placed on the angles of a pediment, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 116d, “SIG” 80 (6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus), “IG” 4.1484.102 (Epid.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally, pediment, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 63.] Refs 1st c.AD+]