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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: krateô 2: kurieuô 3: kratos 4: kuriôs 5: enkratês
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kurios [u_], a, on, also os, on Aesch. Supp. 732, Eur. Heraclid. 143, Aristot. Pol. 1306b20:--

  • Thess. kurros IG9(2).517.20 (Larissa, iii B.C.): (kuros) (not in Hom.):

    I. of persons, having power or authority over, c. gen., Zeus ho pantôn k.     Pind. I. 5.53, cf. P.2.58; emôn te kai sôn k. pistômatôn Aesch. Ag. 878; prin an se k. stêsô teknôn put thee in possession of . . , Soph. OC 1041; kurioi politeias Antiph. 3.1.1; k. kataluseôs Thuc. 4.20; eirênês kai polemou Xen. Hell. 2.2.18; -ôtatoi tou hierou Thuc. 5.53 (but ho -ôtatos theos tou hierou, of the god to whom a temple is dedicated, OGI90.39 (Rosetta, ii B.C.)); tôn hautou k. Plat. Laws 929d, cf. Isoc. 19.34, etc.; thanatou k. tinos with power of life and death over, Plat. Criti. 120d; k. peri tinos Aristot. Pol. 1286a24.

    II. of things, ho tês hôras tês katarchês k. [astêr] Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.1.99: but usu. abs., authoritative, decisive, dikai E.Heracl.l.c.,     Andoc. 1.88, Plat. Crito 50b; muthos -ôteros of more authority, Eur. IA 318 (troch.); -ôtatê tôn epistêmôn [hê politikê] Aristot. Pol. 1282b15; hai -ôterai archai IDEM=Arist.Cael.285a26, cf. ti=Aristot. Met. 997a12; [hê phronêsis] tês sophias kuriôtera IDEM=Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1143b34; -ôtera hê katholou [apodeixis] IDEM=Arist.APo.86a23; tarachos ho -ôtatos Epicur.Ep.1p.30U.; of sovereign remedies, -ôtatê tôn katharseôn Plat. Soph. 230d; -ôtatê kenôsis Gal.1.299; important, principal, k. doxai, of certain doctrines of Epicurus, Phld.Ir.p.86 W.; ta -ôtata merê tês phuseôs Epicur.Sent.9; -ôtera merê tou sômatos Philostr.Gym.50; ta -ôtata the principal organs, Gal.1.385 (but, the most important matters, Epicur.Sent.16); to -ôtaton tês Ephesou Philostr.VS1.22.4: Gramm., k. tonos principal accent, D.T.Supp. 674.32.

    III. Ad    v. kuriôs , v. sub voc.

    B. Subst. kurios, ho, lord, master, toisi k. dômatôn     Aesch. Lib. 658, cf. au=Aesch. Lib. 689, Soph. Aj. 734, etc.; ho k. alone, head of a family, master of a house (cf. Sch.Aristoph. Kn. 965), Antiph. 2.4.7, Aristoph. Pl. 6, Aristot. Pol. 1269b10; tous k. tôn oikiôn PTeb.5.147 (ii B.C.); also, guardian of a woman, Isaeus 6.32, PGrenf.2.15 i 13 (ii B.C.), etc.: generally, guardian, trustee, Isaeus 2.10, Dem. 43.15, au=Dem. 46.19, Men.Epit.89, etc.