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INDEX OF GREEK WORDS 567<br />

vuaaa, goal or end <strong>of</strong> race-course<br />

114.<br />

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6fio\as, obol : sign for, 31, 49, 50.<br />

'oXvixttiovIkcii, work by Eratosthenes<br />

ii. 109.<br />

ovv£, a wedge-shaped figure ii. 319,<br />

^<br />

ii. 333.<br />

opyavonot'iKi) 18.<br />

dpdios, -a, -ov, right or perpendicular<br />

: dpdia rcXevpd, latus rectum<br />

ii. 139 : opBia Sidperpos, erect<br />

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diameter ',<br />

in double hyuerbola,<br />

ii. 134.<br />

opifriv : copior/LttVo?, defined, i.e. determinate<br />

94, 340.<br />

6[)i((oi> (kvkXos), dividing circle :<br />

horizon (Eucl.) 351, 352.<br />

Zpos, (1) definition 373: (2) limit<br />

or boundary 293 : (3) term (in a<br />

proportion) 306 n.<br />

ovdefiia or ovdcv, sign for (0), 39,45.<br />

ttci j3co Kai Ktva rav yav, saying <strong>of</strong><br />

Archimedes ii. 18.<br />

Trap r)V bwavrai (al KarnydpevaiTeTaypevcos),<br />

expression for parameter<br />

<strong>of</strong> orclinates ii. 139.<br />

7ra/>a (8oXr;, application: tt.tTa6\o S 176, ii. 104.<br />

nepaivovaa Troaorqs = unit, 69.<br />

nepas, limit or extremity 293<br />

limiting surface 166 : nepas avyicXelov,<br />

definition <strong>of</strong> figure ii. 221.<br />

7rf piaard prior, odd-even : with Neo-<br />

Pythagoreans is <strong>of</strong> form<br />

2" + 1 (2m+l), 72.<br />

7T€pt(To-(k, -17, -dv, odd, q.v.<br />

TTfTT€ia 19.<br />

TTqXiKos, -t], -ov, how great (<strong>of</strong> magnitude)<br />

12.<br />

nrj\iK(Wr)s, size 384.<br />

nXdyios, -a, -oi*, transverse : nXayia<br />

ftuip.€Tpo$ or likcvpd ii. 139.<br />

TrXaarpctTiKo?, -dv, (easily) formable<br />

ii. 487.<br />

nX'/T&)"iK(5

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