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σύντομ-ος , ον,
A.cut short, abridged, esp. of a road, ἀτραπὸς ξ. a short cut, Ar.Ra.123; “ἡ κατάβασις -ωτέρη” Hdt.7.223; “τὰ σύντομα τῆς ὁδοῦ” Id.1.185, 4.136; -ώτατον the shortest cut, Id.2.158, 4.183; “τὰ -ώτατα” Th.2.97; σύντομος (sc. ὁδός) Hdt.5.17, X.HG7.2.13, etc.; “-ωτάτη ὁδός” Heraclit.(?) 135; “τὴν -ωτάτην . . ἦγε” X.HG7.5.21; cf. “συντέμνω” 11,111.
2. of language, concise, brief, “μῦθος” A.Pers.698 (troch.), cf. E.Heracl.784 (Sup.), etc; “-ώτερος ὁ λόγος” Isoc.3.27; “ς. λέξις” Arist.Rh.1414a25; “ἐπεισόδια” Id.Po.1455b16; ς. ἀνάμνησις a concise summary, Id.Rh.Al.1433b29; “διαλογισμός” Epicur.Ep.2p.35U.; φανῶ . . σημεῖα τῶνδε ς. S.OT710; τὸ ς. conciseness, D.H. Vett.Cens.3.1.
3. of other things, “-ωτάτη διαπολέμησις” Th.7.42; ς. ἐμβολή, παρουσία, etc., Plb.3.78.6, 11.1.1, etc.
4. of stature, short, Call.Epigr.13.
II. Adv. -μως concisely, briefly, ς. φημίσασθαι, λέξειν, etc., A.Ag.629, Eu.585, etc.; πεύσει τὰ πάντα ς. ib.415; “ὡς ς. εἰπεῖν” Pl.Ti.25e: also neut. pl., “εἰπέ μοι μὴ μῆκος, ἀλλὰ σύντομα” S.Ant.446 (v.l. συντόμως): Comp. “-ώτερον” Isoc.4.64, etc.: Sup. “-ώτατα” Id.10.30; “συντομώτατον εἰπεῖν” Alex.245.4: but also -ωτέρως, Is.11.3 (cj.), Epicur.Ep.1p.27U.; “-ωτάτως” S.OC1579.
2. of Time, shortly, quickly, immediately, “ἀπολλύναι” Hp.Aph.3.12, cf. S.OT810, PCair.Zen.412.9 (iii B.C.), Plb.8.16.7, J.AJ7.9.7. Sor.1.91, etc.: Sup. “-ώτατα” Rev.Arch.22(1925).62 (Callatis, iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.28.8 (iii B.C.).
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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