προμήκης

promekes

prolonged, elongated

Appears 9 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Timaeus 3
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73d4
91e8
54a2
Critias 2
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118c2
118a6
Theaetetus 2
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148a3
148a4
Laws 1
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Book XII 1
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947d6
Republic 1
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Book VIII 1
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546c4

Dictionary (LSJ)

προμήκης, ες, (μῆκος) A. prolonged, elongated, βέλεα Hp. VC 11, cf. S. Ichn. 294; π. ἡ τῶν ὄφεων φύσις Arist. GA 718a20; σφῆκες -έστεροι τὴν μορφήν Id. HA 627b25, etc.; of Pericles, π. τὴν κεφαλήν Plu. Per. 3. 2. protruding, γλῶσσα Aret. SA 1.5. II. oblong, σχῆμα Pl. Tht. 148a; φύλλον προμηκέστερον ἀπίου Thphr. HP 3.10.1; of rightangled triangles, having the sides which contain the right angle unequal, Pl. Ti. 54a. 2. of numbers, made up of two unequal factors (as 8 = 2 X 4, 32 = 4 X 8), opp. τετράγωνος or ἰσόπλευρος, Id.Tht.l.c., D.L. 3.24; also of solid numbers, having not more than two out of three factors equal, Anon. in Tht. 42.45.

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