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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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aretê [a^], hê, goodness, excellence, of any kind, in Hom. esp. of manly qualities, podôn aretên anaphainôn Hom. Il. 20.411; ameinôn pantoias aretas êmen podas êde machesthai kai noon au=Hom. Il. 15.642; so of the gods, tôn per kai meizôn a. timê te biê te au=Hom. Il. 9.498; also of women, Hom. Od. 2.206; a. heineka for valour, Hdt. 8.92: pl., a. apedeiknunto displayed brave deeds, IDEM=Hdt. 1.176, au=Hdt. 9.40.



II. a. eis tina active merit, good service done him, es tous Hellênas Thuc. 3.58, cf. au=Thuc. 2.40; a. peri tina Xen. Anab. 1.4.8; antapodounai a. Thuc. 4.19; aretas paraschesthai huper tinos Dem. 19.312; aretês heneka, freq. in honorary Inscrr., IG22.107.14, etc.

III. reward of excellence, distinction, fame, ploutôi d' aretê kai kudos opêdei Hes. WD 313, cf. Sapph.80, Pind. N. 5.53, al.; athanatos a. Soph. Phil. 1420, Plat. Sym. 208d; ha athla tou polemou tois andrasin estin, eleutheria kai a. Lyc. 1.49; of God, doxa kai a. 2 Ep.Pet.1.3: in pl., glories, Thgn.30, Pind. N. 10.2, al.; ploutos aretais dedaidalmenos IDEM=Pind. O. 2.53; gennaiôn a. ponôn Eur. Her. 357 (lyr.), cf. Lys. 2.26; progonôn a. Plat. Rep. 618b; in LXX freq. of the praises of God, Isaeus 42.8, al.

IV. Aretê personified, Prodic.1, Arist.Fr.675, Callix.2, CIG2786, SIG 985.10, etc.

V. hê a. sou as a title, Your worship, PLips.13 ii 20, etc.

VI. an engine of war, Ath.Mech.38.11.

VII. a plaster, Androm.ap.Gal.13.531.