Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.sufficing, becoming, befitting; prose Adj., used two or three times by Trag. (v. infr.):

I. of persons, sufficient, competent to do a thing, c. inf., Hdt.3.45, Antipho 1.15, etc.; ἱ. τεκμηριῶσαι sufficient to prove a point, Th.1.9; “-ώτατος [εἰπεῖν] καὶ γνῶναι” Lys.2.42; τίς σοῦ -ώτερος πεῖσαι; X.Cyr.1.4.12; ἱ. ζημιοῦν with sufficient power to punish, Id.Lac.8.4; “ἱ. βοηθεῖν” Pl. Phdr.277a, cf. R.365a; “ἱ. ὥστε γνῶναι” Id.Lg.875a, cf. Phdr.258b; “ἱ. κατὰ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν” Plb.25.3.6, al.: c. acc. rei, ἀνὴρ γνώμην ἱ. a man of sufficient prudence, Hdt.3.4; ἱ. τὴν ἰατρικήν sufficiently versed in medicine, X.Cyr.1.6.15: c. dat. rei, “ἱ. ἐμπειρίᾳ καὶ ἡλικίᾳ” Pl.R. 467d; “οἱ τοῖς χρήμασιν -ώτατοι” X.Eq.2.1: c. dat. pers., a match for, equivalent to, “εἷς ἔχων ἰατρικὴν πολλοῖς ἱ. ἰδιώταις” Pl.Prt.322c, cf. Tht.169a: abs., “ἱ. Ἁπόλλων” S.OT377; “οἱ -ώτατοι τῶν πολιτῶν” Isoc. 12.132; “κριτὴς -ώτερος” Id.10.38; “ἱ. σοφιστής” Pl.Ly.204a; αὐληταὶ ἱ. ὡς πρὸς ἰδιώτας very tolerable in comparison with . . , Id.Prt.327c; “γυνὴ ἱ. μέν, ἄγροικος δέ” Luc.DDeor.20.3; ὁ Ἱ. the Almighty, LXXRu. 1.21.

2. in bad sense, capable, “ἱ. εἶ λαλῶν κατακόψαι πάντα” Men.Sam.69.

II. of things, in amount, sufficient, adequate, “τὰ ἀρκοῦνθ᾽ ἱ. τοῖς γε σώφροσιν” E.Ph.554; “ἱ. τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὰ παρακείμενα” Ar.Lys.1047; ἱκανὰ τοῖς πολεμίοις ηὐτύχηται they have had successes enough, Th.7.77; ἱ. εἴς, ἐπί, πρός τι, X.Hier.4.9, Pl.R. 371e, Prt.322b; [“πρόβατα] ἱ. ἐς φορβήν” Hdt.4.121; of size, large enough, “οὐχ ἱκανῆς οὔσης τῆς Ἁττικῆς” Th.1.2; οὐδ᾽ ἦν ἱκανά σοι . . μέλαθρα . . ἐγκαθυβρίζειν not large enough to riot in, E.Tr.996; “χώρα ἱ. τρέφειν τοὺς τότε” Pl.R.373d, al.; of number or magnitude, considerable, “λῦπαι” Antipho 2.2.2; μέρος τῶν ὄντων ib.2.1.6, etc.; of Time, considerable, long, “ἱ. χρόνον” Ar.Pax354 (lyr.); “ἱ. χρόνος τινὶ ἐπιλαθέσθαι” Lys.3.10; “ἱκανόν ἐστί τινι” Damox.1.1: with personal constr., “ἔφη ἱκανὸς αὐτὸς ἀτυχῶν εἶναι” Is.2.7.

2. sufficient, satisfactory, “ἱ. μαρτυρίαν παρέχεσθαι” Pl.Smp.179b; “ἱ. λόγῳ ἀποδεῖξαι” Id.Hp.Mi.369c; τὸ ἱ. λαμβάνειν to take security or bail, Act.Ap.17.9, OGI629.100 (Palmyra, ii A.D.); τὸ ἱ. ποιεῖν give security, Plb.32.3.13, D.L.4.50, Just.Nov.86.4 (but simply, satisfy, “τῷ ὄχλῳ” Ev.Marc.15.15); “ἱ. δοῦναι” PSI6.554.23 (iii B.C.), POxy.294.23 (i A.D.); ἐφ᾽ ἱκανόν,= ἱκανῶς, Plb.11.25.1, D.S.11.40.

III. Adv. -νῶς sufficiently, adequately, Th.6.92, etc.; λαγόνες λαπαραὶ ἱ. X.Cyn.5.30, cf. Arist.Phgn. 807b26; “ἱ. εἴρηται περί τινος” Id.EN1096a3, al.; later, considerably, amply, Philostr.VA3.6, VS1.8.3, Ant.Lib.7.7; fully, “μιᾶς ὥρας ἱ. παρελθούσης” Ptol.Alm.4.6.

b. excessively, οὔτε γὰρ ἱ. ὑγρόν ἐστι not too moist, Gal.6.765, cf. 767,768; “ἱ. βλαβερά” Id.Vict.Att.8; παχὺ ἱ. αἷμα ibid.

2. ἱ. ἔχειν to be sufficient, Th.1.91, etc.; ἱ. ἐχέτω let this be enough, Pl.Sph.245e; “ἱ. ἔχει πρός τι” Id.R.430c, cf. X.Cyr.6.3.22; “περί τινος” Pl.R.402a; ἱ. ἔχειν τινί to be sufficiently supplied with . . , Id.Grg.493c; “ἱ. ἔχειν τοῦ βάθους” Id.Tht.194d; “ἐπιστήμης” Id.Phlb.62a; “ἱ. πεφυκέναι πρὸς τἆλλα” Id.Chrm.158b: abs., Antipho 2.1.1: Sup. “-ωτάτως” Hp.de Arte12; “-ώτατα” Pl.Phlb. 67a.