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ἄρτιος

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complete, perfect of its kind, suitable, exactly fitted

Appears 4 times across Homer's epics.

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ἄρτιος, α, ον (ος, ον Aristid.Quint. 1.25): (ἄρτι):—
complete, perfect of its kind, suitable, exactly fitted, 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 . . , IG 14.889.7 (Sinuessa); ἀρτιωτάτην ἔχειν τάξιν most perfect, Philostr. VS 1.21.3.
2. full-grown, Thphr. HP 2.5.5; 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. VS 1.9.
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. HA 489b22; 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 ὀγδοήκοντʼ ἀρτίων Epigr.Gr. 222b (Milet.).
III. Adv. ἀρτίως just, newly, = ἄρτι, [Epich.] 251, freq. in S.
1. of present time, with pres., Aj. 678, OT 78, al.: with pf., OC 892, al.
2. of the past, with impf., Tr. 664, 674, etc.: with aor., ib. 346, OT 243, 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, AP 6.234 (Eryc.).
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