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ἀνήρ

aner

man

Appears 811 times across Plato's dialogues.

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ἀνήρ, ὁ, ἀνδρός, ἀνδρί, ἄνδρα, voc. ἄνερ: pl. ἄνδρες, -δρῶν, -δράσι [ᾰ], -dras: Aeol. dat. pl. ἄνδρεσι Alc. Supp. 14.8: late nom. sg. ἄνδρας Cat.Cod.Astr. 7.109.7: in Att. the Art. often forms a crasis with the Noun, ἁνήρ for ὁ ἀνήρ, τἀνδρός, τἀνδρί for τοῦ ἀνδρός, etc., ἅνδρες for οἱ ἄνδρες; the Ion. crasis is ὡνήρ, ὧνδρες, Hdt. 4.161,134: Ep. also ἀνέρα, ἀνέρος, ἀνέρι, dual ἀνέρε, pl. ἀνέρες, ἀνέρας, ἄνδρεσσι. [Ep. Poets mostly use ᾱ in arsi, ᾰ in thesi; but in trisyll. forms with stem ἀνέρ- always ᾱ; so also Trag. in lyr., S. Tr. 1011, OT 869. But in Trag. senarians ᾰ always.] (ἀ- in nom. by analogy; cf. Skt. nar- from I.-E. ner-, nṛ- from nṛ-, Gk. ἀνδρ- from ṇr-):—A. man, opp. woman (ἄνθρωπος being man as opp. to beast), Il. 17.435, Od. 21.323; τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἄπαις without male children, Pl. Lg. 877e; in Hom. mostly of princes, leaders, etc., but also of free men; ἀ δήμου one of the people, Il. 2.198, cf. Od. 17.352; with a qualifying word to indicate rank, ἀ. βουληφόρος Il. 2.61; ἀ. βασιλεύς Od. 24.253; ἡγήτορες ἄ. Il. 11.687. II. man, opp. god, πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε ib.1.544, al.; Διὸς ἄγγελοι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν ib.334, cf. 403, Hdt. 5.63, etc.: most common in pl., yet sts. in sg., e.g. Il. 18.432:—freq. with a Noun added, βροτοί, θνητοὶ ἄ., Od. 5.197,10.306; ἄ. ἡμίθεοι Il. 12.23; ἄ. ἥρωες ib.5.746:—also of men, opp. monsters, Od. 21.303:—of men in societies and cities, οὔτε παρʼ ἀνδράσιν οὔτʼ ἐν ναυσὶ κοίλαις Pi. O. 6.10; and so prob., ἄλλοτε μέν τʼ ἐπὶ Κύνθου ἐβήσαο . ., ἄλλοτε δʼ ἂν νήσους τε καὶ ἀνέρας . . h.Ap. 142. III. man, opp. youth, unless the context determines the meaning, as in οὔ πως ἔστι νεωτέρῳ ἀνδρὶ μάχεσθαι ἄνδρα γέροντα Od. 18.53; but ἀ. alone always means a man in the prime of life, esp. warrior, ἀ. ἕλεν ἄνδρα Il. 15.328; so ἀ. ἀντʼ ἀνδρὸς ἐλύθησαν Th. 2.103; the several ages are given as παῖς, μειράκιον, ἀ., πρεσβύτης X. Smp. 4.17; εἰς ἄνδρας ἐγγράφεσθαι, συντελεῖν, D. 19.230, Isoc. 12.212; εἰς ἄνδρας ἀναβῆναι BMus.Inscr. 898; in Inscrr. relating to contests, opp. παῖδες, IG 22.1138.10, etc. IV. man emphatically, man indeed, ἀνέρες ἄστε, φίλοι Il. 5.529; freq. in Hdt., πολλοὶ μὲν ἄνθρωποι, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἄνδρες 7.210; πρόσθεν οὐκ ἀ. ὅδʼ ἦν; S. Aj. 77; ἄνδρα γίγνεσθαί σε χρή E. El. 693; ἀ. γεγένησαι διʼ ἐμέ Ar. Eq. 1255; ὃ μαθὼν ἀ. ἔσει Id. Nu. 823; ἄνδρας ἡγοῦνται μόνους τοὺς πλεῖστα δυναμένους καταφαγεῖν Id. Ach. 77; εἰ ἄνδρες εἶεν οἱ στρατηγοί Th. 4.27; οὐκέτι ἀ. ἀλλὰ σκευοφόρος X. Cyr. 4.2.25; τὸν Λυκομήδην . . μόνον ἄνδρα ἡγοῦντο Id. HG 7.1.24; οὐκ ἐν ἀνδράσι not like a man, E. Alc. 723, cf. 732; ἀνδρὸς τὰ προσπίπτοντα γενναίως φέρειν ʼtis the part of a man . ., Men. 771, etc. V. husband, Il. 19.291, Od. 24.196, Hdt. 1.146, etc.; εἰς ἀνδρὸς ὥραν ἡκούσης τῆς κόρης Pl. Criti. 113d; so ἐξοικιεῖν εἰς ἀνδρὸς [οἶκον] θυγατέρα Luc. Lex. 11:—also of a paramour, opp. πόσις, S. Tr. 551, cf. E. Hipp. 491, Theoc. 15.131; ἀ. ἁπασῶν τῶν γυναικῶν ἐστι νῦν Pherecr. 155; αἰγῶν ἄνερ Theoc. 8.49. VI. Special usages: 1. joined with titles, professions, etc., ἰητρὸς ἀ. Il. 11.514; ἀ. μάντις, ἀ. στρατηγός, Hdt. 6.83,92 (dub.); ἀ. νομεύς S. OT 1118; ἄνδρες λοχῖται, λῃσταί, ἀσπιστῆρες, ib.751,842, Aj. 565; esp. in disparagement, κλῶπες ἄ. E. Rh. 645; ἀ. δημότης S. Ant. 690; with names of nations, as Φοίνικες ἄ. Hdt. 4.42; ἀ. Θρῇξ E. Hec. 19,al.; esp. in addresses, ἄ. ἔφοροι Hdt. 9.9; ἄ. πολῖται S. OT 513; ἄ. δικασταί D. 21.1, etc.; ὦ ἄνδρες gentlemen of the jury, Antipho 1.1, Lys. 1.1, etc.; ὦ ἄ. Ἀθηναῖοι Id. 6.8, etc.: hence in Comedy, ἄ. ἰχθύες Archipp. 29; ἄ. θεοί Luc. JTr. 15; ὦ ἄ. κύνες Ath. 4.160b. 2. ὁ ἀνήρ, by crasis Att. ἁνήρ, Ion. ὡνήρ, is freq. used emphatically for αὐτός, ἐκεῖνος Ar. V. 269, prob. in Pl. Sph. 216b, etc.: sts. so in oblique cases without the Art., S. Tr. 55, 109, 293, etc.; but not in Prose. 3. ἀ. ὅδε, ὅδʼ ἀ., in Trag., = ἐγώ, S. Aj. 78, E. Alc. 690, etc. 4. πᾶς ἀ. every man, every one, freq. in Pl. Lg. 736c, al., cf. E. Or. 1523. 5. a man, any man, εἶτʼ ἄνδρα τῶν αὑτοῦ τι χρὴ προϊέναι; Ar. Nu. 1214; οὐ πρέπει νοῦν ἔχοντι ἀνδρί Pl. Phd. 114d, etc.; οὐ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς . . ἐσθʼ ὁ πλοῦς ʼtis not every one that can go, Nicol.Com. 1.26. 6. ὦ δαιμόνιʼ ἀνδρῶν Eup. 316; and often with a Sup., ὦ φίλτατʼ ἀνδρῶν Phryn.Com. 80, etc. 7. κατʼ ἄνδρα viritim, Isoc. 12.180, POxy. 1047 iii 11, BGU 145.5, etc.; so τοὺς κατʼ ἄνδρα individuals, opp. κοινῇ τὴν πόλιν, D.Chr. 32.6. 8. In LXX, ἀνήρ = ἕκαστος, δότε μοι ἀνὴρ ἐνώτιον Jd. 8.24; ἀ. τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ προσκολληθήσεται ‘each to his fellow’, of leviathanʼs scales, Jb. 41.8; also ἀ. εἷς 4 Ki. 6.2; with negs., ἀ. μὴ ἐπισκεπήτω ib.10.19; ἀνὴρ ἀνήρ any one, Le. 15.2. 9. ἄνδρας γράφειν· τὸ ἐν διδασκάλου τὰ παιδία ὀνόματα γράφειν, Hsch. VII. male animal, Arist. HA 637b15.
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