A). produced at the right season (ὥρα), seasonable, timely: esp. of the fruits of the earth, βίος or βίοτος ὡ. store of fruits gathered in due season, Hes. Op. 32 , 307 ; ὡ. καρποί the fruits of the season, καρποὺς .. κατατίθεσθαι ὡραίους to store them up in season, Hdt. 1.202 : freq. in neut., ὡραῖα, Th. 1.120 , 3.58 , X. An. 5.3.9 , Pl. Lg. 845e ; ἑραίως τὰ ὡραῖα ἀποδιδόναι Hp. Aph. 3.8 ; ὡραῖα .. ἀποτελεῖν ἱερά to render fruits of the season as sacred offerings, Pl. Criti. 116c , cf. Orac. ap. D. 21.52 ; τρωκτὰ ὡ. X. An. 5.3.12 ; ἄνθεα AP 9.564 (Nicias); σῦκα Aret. CD 1.3 ; also of animals, ὡ. ἄρνες yearling, AP 6.157 ( Theodorid.); of tunnies at a year old (from six months to one year they were called πηλαμύδες) , πηλαμὺς .. ὡραία θέρους τῷ Βοσπορίτῃ S. Fr. 503 ; ὡ. θύννοι Ps.- Hes. ap. Ath. 3.116b , cf. Hices.ib. 116e , Archestr. Fr. 38.9 , Plaut. Capt. 851 ; τάριχος ὡ. fish salted or pickled in the season, Alex. 186.5 ; ἰχθύες ἐς τάγηνον ὡ. Babr. 6.4 ; σαργάναι ὡ. pickling-tubs, Poll. 7.27 : hence generally, agricultural produce, εἶναι ἐνεχυρασίαν Αἰξωνεῦσιν ἐκ τῶν ὡ. τῶν ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου IG 22.2492.8 (iv B. C.).

2). τὰ ὡραῖα, = τὰ καταμήνια , esp. at their first appearance, Hp. Superf. 34 .

3). Subst. ἡ ὡραία (in full, ὥρη ἡ ὡραίη Aret. SD 1.4 , Phryn. PS p.128 B., etc.), harvest-time, esp. the twenty days before and twenty days after the rising of the dog-star, μίμνει ἐς ὡραίην till harvest-time, A.R. 3.1390 .

b). the campaigning-season, during which the troops kept the field, D. 9.48 , 56.30 , Plb. 3.16.7 .

c). τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐκ ὕει it does not rain in the season (sc. of rain), Hdt. 4.28 .

II). happening or done in due season, seasonable, ἄροτος, ἔργον, Hes. Op. 617.642 ; πλόος ib. 630 ; χειμῶνες Thphr. HP 4.14.1 ; ὕδατα Id. CP 2.2.1 ; σκαπάνη ib. 3.16.1 ; τομὴ [καλάμου] Id. HP 4.11.4 ; ὅτε ὡραῖον εἴη when the weather permitted, App. Pun. 120 .

2). metaph.,(ὥρα (C) B) seasonable, due, proper, ὡραίων τυχεῖν, = νομίμων τυχεῖν (cf. ὥριος (A). 111.2 ), E. Supp. 175 : ἐν ὡραί[ᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ] dub. in SIG 668.4 (Delphi, ii B. C.); ἐνιαύτια ὡ. ib. 1025.37 (Cos, iv/iii B. C.), cf. Hsch.

III). of persons, seasonable or ripe for a thing, c.gen., ἀνδρὸς ὡραίη Hdt. 1.107 , cf. Lys. Fr. 4 ; γάμων or γάμου ὡραῖαι, Hdt. 1.196 , 6.122 , cf. X. Cyr. 4.6.9 ; ἐς ἥβην ὡραίαν γάμων E. Hel. 12 (ὡραίων codd.); ὅστις οὐκέθ’ ὡραῖος γαμεῖ Id. Fr. 804 ; ὡ. γάμος seasonable marriage, A. Fr. 55 ; also of old persons, ripe or ready for death, πατήρ γε μὴν ὡ. E. Alc. 516 ; αὐτὸς δ’, ἐν ὠ. γὰρ ἕσταμεν βίῳ, θνῄσκειν ἕτοιμος Id. Ph. 968 ; θάνατος ὡ. X. Ages. 10.3 ; σορός Ar. V. 1365 ; ὡραῖος ἀποτέθνηκεν Plu. 2.178e ; so ὕλη ὡ. τέμνεσθαι Thphr. HP 5.1.1 .

2). in reference to age, in the prime of life, youthful, Hes. Op. 695 : hence in the bloom of youth, opp. ἄωρος, X. Smp. 8.21 , Pl. R. 574c ; ὡ. ἐὼν καὶ καλός Pi. O. 9.94 ; παιδίσκη ὡραιοτάτη Ar. Ach. 1148 (anap.), cf. Ra. 291 , 514 ; παῖς ὡραῖος Id. Av. 138 : but not necessarily implying beauty, τοῖς τῶν ὡραίων προσώποις, καλῶν δὲ μή Pl. R. 601b ; ἄνευ κάλλους ὡραῖοι Arist. Rh. 1406b37 ; cf. ὥρα (C) B. 11 .

3). generally, of things, beautiful, graceful, LXX Ge. 3.6 , 2 Ch. 36.19 , Ev.Matt. 23.27 ; ἡ ὡ. πύλη τοῦ ἱεροῦ Act.Ap. 3.10 , cf. 3.2 .

IV). irreg. Sup. ὡραιέστατος Epich. 186d .

V). Adv. ὡραίως Hp. Aph. 3.8 .