πλάτος

A. 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 Altertümervon 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. κατ’ 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.).