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ἄρτιος , α, ον （ος, ον Aristid.Quint.1.25): (ἄρτι):—
A.complete, perfect of its kind, suitable, exactly fitled, “ἄ. ἀλλήλοισι σπόνδυλοι” Hp.Art.45; ἄρτια βάζειν speak to the purpose, Il.14.92, Od.8.240; ὅτι οἱ φρεσὶν ἄρτια ᾔδη thought things in accordance with him, was of the same mind with him, Il.5.326, Od.19.248; “ἄρτια μήδεσθαι” Pi.O.6.94; meet, right, proper, Sol.4.40, Thgn.946; ἄ. εἴς τι well-suited for . . , IG14.889.7 (Sinuessa); “ἀρτιωτάτην ἔχειν τάξιν” most perfect, Philostr.VS1.21.3.
2. full-grown, Thphr.HP2.5.5; sound, of body and mind, νόος, σώμασιν, Thgn.154, D.S.3.33, cf. 2 Ep.Ti.3.17.
3. prepared, ready, c. inf., ἄρτιοι πείθεσθαι, ποιέειν, Hdt.9.27,48; “καταβιῶναι” Philostr.VS1.9.
II. of numbers, perfect, i.e. even, opp. περιττός (odd), Epich.170.7, cf. Pl.Prt.356e, al.; ἄ. πόδες even number of feet, Arist.HA489b22; ἐν ἀρτίῃσι (sc. ἡμέρῃσι) happening on the even days, Hp.Epid.1.18; ἄ. χώρα, of the even feet in iambic and trochaic verse, Heph.5.1, Aristid.Quint. l.c.
2. exact, precise, “ἐτῶν ἀριθμὸν ὀγδοήκοντ᾽ ἀρτίων” Epigr.Gr.222b (Milet.).
III. Adv. ἀρτίως just, newly, = ἄρτι, [Epich.] 251, freq. in S.
1. of present time, with pres., Aj.678, OT78, al.: with pf., OC892, al.
2. of the past, with impf., Tr.664,674, etc.: with aor., ib.346, OT243, etc.
3. with an Adj., “ἀ. νεοσφαγής” Aj.898.
4. closely fitting, “καθηλῶσαί τί τινι” Polyaen.3.11.13.
IV. neut. pl. ἄρτια, = ἀρτίως 2, AP6.234 (Eryc.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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