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πλάτος, breadth, width

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πλάτος (A) [ᾰ], εος, τό, (πλατύς)
  • breadth, width, σώματος Simon. 188, etc.: abs., τὸ π. or π., in breadth, Hdt. 1.193, 4.195, X. Oec. 19.3; ἴση μῆκός τε π. τε Emp. 17.20.
        • b Math., breadth, i.e. the second dimension, ἐν μήκει καὶ π. καὶ βάθει Pl. Sph. 235d, cf. Arist. Ph. 209a5; κατὰ π., opp. κατὰ μῆκος, κατὰ βάθος, Id. Cael. 299b26, Mete. 341b34.
      • 2 plane surface, Pl. Plt. 284e, Lg. 819e; μεγέθους τὸ ἐπὶ δύο [συνεχὲς] π. Arist. Metaph. 1020a12.
      • 3 latitude, whether terrestrial or celestial, Str. 1.4.2, Cleom. 1.4, 2.4, Ptol. Alm. 2.12, Vett.Val. 30.12.
      • 4 metaph., plane, ἐν τῷ ψυχικῷ π. Procl. Inst. 201.
      • 5 plane of flat fish, Arist. HA 489b33; flat of the tail, ib. 549b1; flat part of the body of the fishing-frog, Id. PA 695b15.
      • 6 extension, breadth of a subject, Gal. 1.316; οὐκ ὀλίγον τὸ π. Id. 11.738.
      • 7 = πλάτας, Judeich Altertümer von Hierapolis No.322, al.
    • II metaph., range of variation, latitude, π. ἔχειν Plot. 6.3.20; ἡ ὑγίεια π. ἔχει Gal. 6.12, cf.11.737.
    • III with Preps., ἐν πλάτει in a loose sense, broadly, Posidon. ap. Stob. 1.8.42, Str. 2.1.39, D.H. Comp. 21, EM 673.24; opp. κατʼ ἀκρίβειαν, S.E. M. 10.108; ὡς ἐν π. Sor. 1.24 (but περὶ ὧν ἐν τῷ π. λέγομεν which we will discuss in detail, D.L. 7.76); also ἐπὶ πλάτει Ἑλληνίζειν talk loose Greek, Phld. Po. 2.9; κατὰ πλάτος λέγεσθαι to be said loosely, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.164, cf. Sor. 1.6, 21.
    • IV = πλατύτης 3, Demetr. Eloc. 177.
    • V π. καρδίας, of Solomon, width of knowledge, LXX 3 Ki. 2.35a.
    • VI ἀργυρίου πλάτη, = δραχμαί, IG 9(1).189.15 (Tithora, ii A.D.).
πλάτος (B) [ᾰ], ὁ,
  • = πλάτας, IGRom. 4.866 (Laodicea ad Lycum).

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