The corpus record

μετρ-ητικός

metretikos

skilled in measuring

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Where it lives

Protagoras 8 · 4.5/10k
Statesman 5 · 2.95/10k
Philebus 3 · 1.7/10k
Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

μετρ-ητικός · metr-ētikos — LSJ

skilled in measuring, capable of measuring, dividing

skilled in measuring, Pl. Just. 373d; of numbers, capable of measuring, i.e. dividing, c. gen., Iamb. in Nic. p.36 P.

II concerned with measurement, mensuration

concerned with measurement: -κή (sc. τέχνη), ἡ, mensuration, μ. μήκους καὶ ἐπιπέδου καὶ βάθους Pl. Lg. 817e, cf. Prt. 357d, al. Adv. -κῶς Poll. 4.166.

In the wild

μετρητικὰ · metrētika Epictetus, Discourses 1.17 (DIORISIS sentence 836)
μετρητικὸν · metrētikon Epictetus, Discourses 1.17 (DIORISIS sentence 833)
μετρητικήν · metrētikēn Plato, Alcibiades 1 126
μετρητικὴ · metrētikē Plato, Laws 818
μετρητικὴν · metrētikēn Plato, Philebus 55
μετρητικὴ · metrētikē Plato, Philebus 57

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