Plato Greek Lexicon ἔτος

ἔτος

etos

year

Appears 38 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἔτος, εος, τό, irreg. dat. ἔτῃ IG 2.1059.18:—Α. year, τῶν προτέρων ἐτέων in bygone years, Il. 11.691; τόδʼ ἐεικοστὸν ἔ. ἐστὶν ἐξ οὗ . . 24.765, cf. Od. 2.89, 19.222; ὅτε . . ὄγδοόν μοι ἐπιπλόμενον ἔ. ἦλθε 7.261; ἔ. ἐνιαυτῶν, v. ἐνιαυτός; ἑκάστου ἔτους Pl. Phd. 58b; ἀνʼ ἕκαστον ἔ. Thphr. HP 4.4.4; ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔ. AP 9.430 (Crin.); ἀνὰ πάντα ἔτεα Hdt. 8.65; διʼ ἔτους πέμπτου every fifth year, Ar. Pl. 584; κατὰ ἔ. every year, Th. 4.53, D.S. 3.2, Ev.Luc. 2.41, etc. (freq. καθʼ ἕ., as PPetr. 3p.34 (iii B.C.) and later); ἔ. εἰς ἔ. year after year, S. Ant. 340 (lyr.); διʼ ἔτους annually, Ph. 1.19, 378; εἰς ἔ. Theoc. Ep. 13.4; εἰς ἔ. ἐξ ἔτεος Id. 18.15; ἔ. ἐξ ἔτους LXX Le. 25.50; παρὰ ἔ. every other year, Paus. 9.32.3 (but πὰρ ϝέτος yearly, Tab.Heracl. 1.101); πάλαι πολλὰ ἤδη ἔτη Pl. Ap. 18b; τρίτῳ ἔτει Th. 1.101; τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ πρότερον Hdt. 6.40; τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ τούτων in the third year after this, ibid., etc.; freq. in acc., ἔ. τόδʼ ἤδη δέκατον . . βόσκων now for these ten years, S. Ph. 312; τύραννος ἐγεγόνει ἤδη χιλιοστὸν ἔτος Pl. R. 615c, cf. D. 3.4, 33.23; of a personʼs age, γεγονὼς ἔτη τρία ἀπολείποντα τῶν ἑκατόν Isoc. 12.270; οἱ ὑπὲρ τὰ στρατεύσιμα ἔτη γεγονότες X. Cyr. 1.2.4, cf. 13, etc.; without γεγονώς, τοὺς ὑπὲρ τετταράκοντα ἔτη Id. An. 5.3.1; οἱ μέχρι τετταράκοντα ἐτῶν ib.6.4.25, etc.: in gen., ἐπειδὰν ἐτῶν ᾖ τις τριάκοντα Pl. Lg. 721b; μυρίων ἐτῶν within a period of 10,000 years, Id. Phdr. 248e; ὥρα ἔτους, v. ὥρα I. 2. regnal year, τὸ πέμπτον ἔ. Δομιτιανοῦ POxy. 477.8 (ii A.D.). (ϝέτος SIG 9.2 (Olympia, vi B.C.), Berl.Sitzb. 1927.8 (Locr., v B.C.), Inscr.Cypr. 135.1 H., Tab.Heracl.l.c.; cf. Lat. vetus.)
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