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pure, genuine, σπέρμα θεοῦ Pi. P. 3.15; πόλις E. Ion 673; τῶν Ἀθηναίων ὅπερ ἐστράτευε καθαρὸν ἐξῆλθε, i.e. were citizens of pure blood, Th. 5.8; οἱ τῷ γένει μὴ κ. Arist. Ath. 13.5; κ. ἀστοί Sch. Ar. Ach. 506; καθαρόν a real, genuine saying, Ar. V. 1015; κ. Τίμων a Timon pure and simple, Id. Av. 1549; κ. δοῦλος Antiph. 9 (glossed by ἀπηκριβωμένος, AB 105); ζημία κ., of a person, Alciphro 3.21.
an absolute ruler, unlimited by law or constitution, first in h.Mart. 5 (unless the hymn is late), where it is used of a god, Ἆρες, . . ἀντιβίοισι τύραννε; so ὁ τῶν θεῶν τ., of Zeus, A. Pr. 736, cf. Ar. Nu. 564 (lyr.); ὦ τύραννε τᾶς ἐμᾶς φρενός, i.e. Apollo, S. Tr. 217 (lyr.); σὺ δʼ ὦ τύραννε θεῶν τε κἀνθρώπων Ἔρως E. Fr. 136; Μὴν Τύραννος, a Phrygian deity worshipped in Attica, IG 2(2).1366.2 (i A. D.), al.; οὔ, τὴν τ. (perh. Hera), in an oath, Herod. 5.77: first used of monarchs in the time of Archil. (cf. τυραννίς I) acc. to Hippias 9 D.; Φίττακον ἐστάσαντο τ. Alc. 37 A; ἢν μή τις ἢ τ. ἢ σκηπτοῦχος ᾖ Semon. 7.69; λαγέτας τ. Pi. P. 3.85; interchangeable with βασιλεύς in Isoc. 2.4 (cf. 1), 35 (cf. 36); later, chief, princeling, OGI 654.8 ( Egypt, i B. C.); τ. ἴδιοι καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐμτπόριον Peripl.M.Rubr. 14: c. gen., Κροῖσος . . τ. ἐθνέων τῶν ἐντὸς Ἅλυος Hdt. 1.6; Κλεισθένης ὁ Σικυῶνος τ., Ἱστιαῖος ὁ Μιλήτου τ., etc., Id. 5.67, 7.10.γ, etc.; ὁ τῶν Κυπρίων τ. Sor. 1.39; οἱ τ., of the Sicilian tyrants, Th. 1.14; of the Pisistratidae, X. HG 6.5.33, Arist. Ath. 13.5, Pol. 1275b36, cf. Th. 6.54, Pl. Smp. 182c; τὸν τ. κτανέτην Scol. 9.3; οἱ τ. the monarchical party, προδιδοὺς τοῖς τ. τὴμ πόλιν τὴν Ἐρυθραίων IG 1(2).10.32: freq. in a bad sense, δημοφάγος τ. Thgn. 1181, cf. 823, Hdt. 3.80, Pl. Grg. 510b, Plt. 301c, R. 569b, etc.; ὕβρις φυτεύει τύραννον S. OT 873 (lyr.).