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ἀκρότης

akrotes · ἡ

highest pitch

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ἀκρότης · akrotēs — LSJ

highest pitch

highest pitch, Hp. VM 22.

II extreme, excellence, perfection, summit

extreme, opp. μεσότης, Arist. EN 1107a8; ἀμφοτέρας παθεῖν τὰς ἀ. Diog Oen. Fr. 38: metaph., excellence, perfection, ἡ ἀνυπέρεκτος ἀ. Phld. D. 3.5, cf. D.H. Dem. 2, etc.; summit, Procl. Inst. 147.

In the wild

ἀκρότης · akrotēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1107a (DIORISIS sentence 511)
ἀκρότητα · akrotēta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 74)
ἀκρότητα · akrotēta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7481)

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