τρᾱνής, ές,
clear, distinct, ἴσμεν γὰρ οὐδὲν τ., ἀλλ᾽ ἀλώμεθα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 23, compare 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1013.5; χρόαι τρανεῖς 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -έστερος[[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 145; -εστέρα ἡ ὄψις τῆς ἀκοῆς 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus ] Refs 5th c.AD+] in “de An.” 229.12: superlative -έστατος[[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.14 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—later τρᾱνός, ή, όν, [[ 4th c.BC: Moschio Tragicus Trag. 8, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.6.17; διάνοια 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 831.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: comparative -ότερος[[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.378a; -οτέρα ζωή 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 1.4.2, 6.7.5; -ότερα τὰ περὶ τῶν περισκίων 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.43; -οτάτη κρίσις 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “περὶ κριτηρίου” 7; ἀλκυόνιον τὸ -ότερον ] Refs 1st c.BC+]brighter, [[ 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 6.55. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 of Hermes, [[ 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 16. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II adverb, τρανῶς εἰδέναι, ἐρεῖν, μαθεῖν, ἀποδεῖξαι,[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1371, “Eu.” 45, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 758, “Rh.” 40 (Lyric poetry), compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 15, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τρανόν, μάλα τ. ἐπιδών με [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ότερον, εἰπεῖν [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.336 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.326, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.298 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -ότατα[[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.404, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 33 (uncertain), 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.118 P. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]