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point
subs.
Sharp end of anything:
Ar. and V. ἀκμή, ἡ (Eur. Supp. 318).
Point of a spear:
P. and V. λογχή, ἡ (Plat. Lach. 183d).
Point of an arrow:
V. γλωχί̄ς, ἡ.
Goad:
P. and V. κέντρον, τό.
Sharp point of rock:
V. στόνυξ, ὁ (Eur. Cycl.).
Since the land about Cynossema has a conformation coming to a sharp point:
P. τοῦ χωρίου τοῦ περὶ τὸ Κυνὸς σῆμα ὀξεῖαν καὶ γωνιώδη τὴν περιβολὴν ἔχοντος (Thuc. 8.104).
Cape:
P. and V. ἄκρα, ἡ, P. ἀκρωτήριον, τό, V. ἀκτή, ἡ, προβλής, ὁ, Ar. and V. ἄκρον, τό, πρών, ὁ.
Meaning:
P. διάνοια, ἡ ; see meaning.
Lead from the point:
P. ἀπάγειν ἀπὸ τῆς ὑποθεσέως (Dem. 416), or simply P. and V. πλᾰνᾶν.
Miss the point:
P. and V. πλᾰνᾶσθαι.
Beside the point:
P. ἔξω τοῦ πράγματος (Dem. 1318), Ar. and P. ἔξω τοῦ λόγου.
To the point:
P. πρὸς λόγον.
There is no point in:
P. οὐδὲν προὔργου ἐστί (with infin.).
A case in point:
P. and V. πᾰρά̆δειγμα, τό.
Question in discussion:
P. and V. λόγος, ὁ.
Disputed points:
P. τὰ διαφέροντα, τὰ ἀμφίλογα.
It is a disputed point:
P. ἀμφισβητεῖται.
The chief point:
P. τὸ κεφάλαιον.
A fresh point:
P. and V. καινόν τι.
I hear this is his chief point of defence:
P. ἀκούω . . . τοῦτο μέγιστον ἀγώνισμα εἶναι (Lys. 13.77).
Highest point, zenith:
P. and V. ἀκμή, ἡ.
Be at its highest point,
v.: P. also V. ἀκμάζειν.
Carry one’s point:
P. and V. νῑκᾶν, κρᾰτεῖν τῇ γνώμῃ.
Make a point, score a point
(in an argument): P. and V. λέγειν τι.
Herein you give us a point
(advantage) as in draughts: V. ἓν μεν τοδʼ ἡμῖν ὥσπερ ἐν πεσσοῖς δίδως κρεῖσσον (Eur. Supp. 409).
Turning point in a race-course:
P. and V. καμπή, ἡ.
Met., crisis: P. and V. ἀκμή, ἡ, ἀ̆γών, ὁ, ῥοπή, ἡ ; see crisis.
To make known the country’s weak points:
P. διδάσκειν ἃ πονηρῶς ἔχει τῶν πραγμάτων (Lys. 14.35).
Strong points:
P. τὰ ἰσχυρότατα (Thuc. 5.111).
Weak points:
P. τὰ σαθρά (Dem. 52).
The weak point in the walls:
V. τὸ νόσουν τειχέων (Eur. Phoen. 1097).
Point of view:
P. and V. γνώμη, ἡ, δόξᾰ, ἡ.
Point of conscience:
P. and V. ἐνθύ̄μιον, τό.
At this point:
P. and V. ἐνθά̆δε.
From that point:
P. and V. ἐντεῦθεν, ἐνθένδε.
Up to this point:
P. μέχρι τούτου.
I wish to return to the point from which I digressed into these subjects:
P. ἐπανελθεῖν ὁπόθεν εἰς ταῦτα ἐξέβην βούλομαι (Dem. 298).
I return to the point:
P. ἐκεῖσε ἐπανέρχομαι (Dem. 246).
In one point perplexity has assailed me:
V. ἔστιν γὰρ ᾗ ταραγμὸς ἐμπέπτωκέ μοι (Eur. Hec. 857).
Be on the point of be about to:
P. and V. μέλλειν (infin.).
Whom I am on the point of seeing killed:
V. ὃν . . . ἐπʼ ἀκμῆς εἰμὶ κατθανεῖν ἰδεῖν (Eur. Hel. 896). Make a point of, see to it that: P. ἐπιμέλεσθαι ὅπως (fut. indic. or aor. subj.).
point
v. trans.
Sharpen:
Ar. and P. ἀ̆κονᾶν (Xen.), Ar. and V. θήγειν.
Sharpen at the end:
V. ἐξᾰποξύ̄νειν (Eur. Cycl.).
Direct:
P. and V. τείνειν.
Point out
or point to: P. and V. δεικνύναι, ἐπῐδεικνύ̆ναι, ἀ̆ποδεικνύναι, V. ἐκδεικνύναι. Ar. and P. φράζειν ; see show.
Make known:
P. and V. δῐδάσκειν.
V. intrans. Be directed, tend: P. and V. τείνειν, φέρειν, νεύειν ; see tend.
It is impossible that the oracle points to this, but to something else more important:
Ar. οὐκ ἔσθʼ ὅπως ὁ χρησμὸς εἰς τοῦτο ῥέπει ἀλλʼ εἰς ἕτερόν τι μεῖζον (Pl. 51).
The cruel violence to his eyes was the work of heaven to point the moral to Greece:
V. αἱ θʼ αἱματουργοὶ δεργμάτων διαφθοραί θεῶν σόφισμα κἀπίδειξις Ἑλλάδι (Eur. Phoen. 870).

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