κορῠφ-ή, ἡ,
(κόρυς) head, top: hence,
__1 crown, top of the head, of a horse, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.83, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.11 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a man or god, [[ “hymnus ad Apollinem” 309, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.36, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.187, “Sammelb.” 6003.8 (4th c.AD): between βρέγμα and ἰνίον, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 491a34; τὸ ὀστέον τῆς κ. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 top, peak of a mountain (so mostly [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus), οὔρεος ἐν κορυφῇς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.456; ὄρεος κορυφῇσι 3.10, compare 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 60.1; κορυφαὶ γαίας 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.24; κ. Οὐλύμποιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.499, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 270; Αἴτνας μελάμφυλλοι κορυφαί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.27; τηλαυγέ᾽ ἀγ κορυφάν [prev. author] “Pae.” 7.12; κ. πόληος 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 17.6; ἀστρογείτονας κ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 722, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.49, 181, 9.99. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 generally, summit, top, κατὰ κορυφὴν ἐσβαλεῖν ἐς τὴν κάτω Μακεδονίαν straight over the summit, ridge, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.99, compare “IG” 42(1).71.11 (Epid., 4th c.BC), “OGI” 383.125 (Nemrud Dagh, 1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ κ. [τῆς στήλης] ἔσφαττον (i.e. ταύρους) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 119e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἵσταται κατὰ κ. ὁ ἥλιος in the zenith, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.938a] Refs 1st c.AD+]; τὸ κατὰ κ., with or without σημεῖον, the zenith, [[ 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 5.64, etc., compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 11, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 4.59 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ταῖς τῶν κατὰ κ. λίθων ἐμβολαῖς by the stones falling vertically, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.7.3. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]