ἀλαθής

A. = λανθάνω: ἀληθὲς τὸ μὴ λήθῃ ὑποπῖπτον EM 62.51):—unconcealed, so true, real, opp. false, apparent:

I. Hom., opp. ψευδής,in phrases ἀληθέα μυθήσασθαι, εἰπεῖν, ἀγορεύειν, ἀληθὲς ἐνισπεῖν, Il. 6.382, Od. 13.254, 3.254, 247, al.; in Hdt. and Att. τὸ ἀληθές, by Trag. crasis τἀληθές, Ion. τὠληθές (Hdt. 6.68, 69), or τὰ ἀληθῆ, by crasis τἀληθῆ, etc.; ἀληθέϊ λόγῳ χρᾶσθαι Hdt. 1.14, etc.; οἱ ἀληθέϊ λόγῳ βασιλέες 1.120; ἀληθεστάτη πρόφασις Th. 1.23.

2. of persons, etc., truthful, honest (not in Hom., v. infr.), ἀ. νόος Pi. O. 2.92; κατήγορος A. Th. 439; κριτής Th. 3.56; οἶνος ἀ. `in vino veritas', Pl. Smp. 217e; ὁ μέσος ἀ. τις Arist. EN 1108a20.

3. of oracles, true, unerring, ἀλαθέα μαντίων θῶκον Pi. P. 11.6, cf. S. Ph. 993, E. Ion 1537; of dreams, A. Th. 710.

II. of qualities or events, true, real, φίλος E. Or. 424; ἀ. τὸ πραχθέν Antipho 1.6; genuine, ἀ. εἶναι δεῖ τὸ σεμνόν, οὐ κενόν Men. 596.

2. realizing itself, coming to fulfilment, ἀρά A. Th. 944.

III. Adv. ἀληθῶς, Ion. ‐θέως, truly, Simon. 5.1, Hdt. 1.11, al., A. Supp. 315, etc.

b. actually, in reality, γένος τόδε Ζηνός ἐστιν ἀ. ib.585; ἀ. οὐδὲν ἐξῃκασμένα Id. Ag. 1244, cf. Th. 1.22, etc.; τὴν ἀ. μουσικήν (sc. οὖσαν) Antiph. 209.6:—ὡς ἀ. in the true way, really, E. Or. 739, Pl. Phd. 63a, etc.; ἡ μὲν γὰρ ὡς ἀ. μήτηρ D. 21.149: Comp. ‐εστέρως Pl. R. 347e, ‐έστερον Antipho 3.3.4: Sup. ‐έστατα X. Mem. 4.8.1.

2. neut. as Adv., proparox. ἄληθες; indeed? really? ironically, S. OT 350, Ant. 758, E. Cyc. 241, Ar. Ra. 840, Av. 174.

3. τὸ ἀληθές truly, Ion. τὠληθές Herod. 7.70.

B. not forgetting, careful, γυνὴ χερνῆτις ἀ. Il. 12.433, cf. Nonn. D. 24.233:—the sense honest is post- Hom. ἀληθ‐ίζω, dye with genuine purple, PHolm. 18.6.

II. Med. ‐ίζομαι, = ἀληθεύω, Hdt. 1.136, 3.72, Plu. 2.230b, Alciphr. 3.39, 59.