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κᾰθάρ-ειος

kathareios

cleanly, neat, tidy

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κᾰθάρ-ειος · kathar-eios — LSJ

cleanly, neat, tidy, decent, respectable, daintiness, white, refined, cleanly, tidily, neatly, clearly, frugally, irreproachably

cleanly, neat, tidy, τοὺς καθαρείους περὶ ὄψιν, περὶ ἀμπεχόνην, περὶ ὅλον τὸν βίον Arist. Rh. 1381b1: -ιώτατόν (v.l. -ειότατόν) ἐστιτὸ ζῷον (i.e. the bee) Id. HA 626a24; καθάρειοι ταῖς διαίταις D.S. 5.33 (καθάριοι codd.); οἱ καθαρειότεροι decent, respectable men, Phld. Rh. 2.150S., Hierocl. p.63A. (-ριώτ-, -ρώτ- codd., em. Meineke); of things, ἐὰν ἡ σκευασία καθάρ<ε>ιος ᾖ Men. Phasm.Fr. 2; καθαριώτερα (or -ειότερα) ὅπλα Plb. 11.9.5; τὸ κ., daintiness, of food, Plu. QConv. 2.663c; κ. ἄρτος white

II pure, correct, purists

Gramm. of language, pure, correct, ὄνομα Sch. Ar. Ach. 244; οἱ κ. purists, Archig. ap. Gal. 8.578. [-ειος is written in Phld. Rh. l.c. (Comp.), PSI 3.158.50 (Comp., iii A.D.), Phld. D. 3.8, PMag.Lond. l.c., and required by metre in Eub., Nicostr., Carm.Aur., Il.cc.: -ιος never.]

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