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μέχρι^ , and μέχρι^ς , Adv.
A.as far as, so used chiefly in Prose and before a Prep., μέχρι πρός . . Pl.Ti.25b, Criti.118a; “μ. εἰς” X.An.6.4.26; “ἐς γόνυ μ. χιτῶνα ζώννυσθαι” Call.Dian.11: before Advs. of Place or Time, “μ. ἐνταῦθα” Pl.Sph.222a, al.; “μ. δεῦρο τοῦ λόγου” Id.Smp. 217e; μ. ὅποι . . Id.Grg.487c; μ. ὅπου . . Call.Del.169; “οὕτω μέχρι πόρρω” D.18.163; “μ. τότε” Th.8.24; “μ. τὰ νῦν” Pl.Lg.686b; μ. νῦν (v.l. τοῦ νῦν) D.S.17.110; “μ. καὶ νῦν” Str.16.2.13; μέχρι πότε χηρεύομεν; Ach.Tat.4.1.
II. Prep. c. gen., even to, as far as,
1. of Place, “μέχρι θαλάσσης” Il.13.143; “μ. τοῦ γούνατος” Hdt.2.80; “μ. τῆς πόλεως” Th.6.96, cf. X.An.1.7.6, al.: rarely following its case, “ὀμφαλοῦ μ.” Pl.Lg.925a, cf.Supp.Epigr.3.400.5 (Delph., iii B.C.).
2. of Time, τέο μέχρις; i.e. τίνος μέχρι χρόνου; how long? Il.24.128; μέχρις τεῦ; Callin.1.1: in Prose, “μέχρι τούτου” Hdt.1.4; μέχρι οὗ, μέχρι ὅσου, Pl.Mx.245a, Hdt.8.3, al.; μ. τοσούτου, ἕως ἂν . . Th.1.90; “μ. τούτου, . . μέχρις ἂν ῥηθῶσιν” Din.1.91, cf. Pl.Phd.81d: with the Art., τὸ μ. ἐμεῦ up to my time, Hdt.3.10, 5.115; μ. τῆς ἐκείνου ζόης till the end of his life, Id.3.160; “μ. ἡμερέων ἑπτά” Id.6.12; “μέχρι Πυθίων” Th.5.1; “μέχρι ἡλίου δύντος” IG12.188.4.
3. of Measure or Degree, μ. τοῦ δικαίου so far as consists with right, Th.3.82; “μ. τοῦ δυνατοῦ” Pl. R.498e; μ. ὑγιείας, μ. ἡδονῆς, ib.559a, Grg.500b; “μ. θανάτου” Ep.Phil.2.8.
4. with Numbers to express a round sum, up to, about, nearly, “μ. δώδεκα” X.Smp.2.8, etc.: sts. without altering the case of the Subst., “τοὺς μ. τριάκοντα ἔτη γεγονότας” Aeschin.2.133; but “πίνειν . . τοὺς μ. ἐτῶν τριάκοντα” Apollod.Car.5.19; μ. τινὸς πλήθους up to a certain number, Aen.Tact.15.3: hence, just short of, “μ. κόρου μετρεῖσθαι” J.BJ2.8.5.
5. in Hdt., μέχρι οὗ is sts. used like the simple “μέχρι, μέχρι οὗ ὀκτὼ πύργων” 1.181; “μέχρι οὗ τροπέων τῶν θερινέων” 2.19; μ. ὅτεν πληθώρης ἀγορῆς ib.173.
III. as a Conj., until, c. ind., “μέχρι . . ὁρμὴ ἐνέπεσε” Th.4.4, cf. Pl.Smp.220d; “μ. σκότος ἐγένετο” X.An.4.2.4; μέχρι ἄν c. subj., ib.1.4.13, 2.3.24; “μέχρις ἂν ἥλιος δύῃ” IG12(5).647.17 (Ceos); “μέχρις κε μένῃ” Call.Sos.5.4: rarely without “ἄν, μ. τοῦτο ἴδωμεν” Hdt.4.119; “μ. πλοῦς γένηται” Th.1.137; “μ. οὗ τι δόξῃ” Id.3.28; “μέχρι τέκῃ” Call.Sos.5.5; “μέχρις οὗ εἴπῃ” Herod.2.43; “μ. καταντήσωμεν” Ep.Eph.4.13; “μέχρις ἵνα ψαύσειε” Call.Dian.28 (s.v.l.): c. inf., “μ. σβεσθῆναι τὸ πῦρ” App.Hisp.75; “μέχρις ἠῶ δῖαν ἱκέσθαι” Q.S. 1.830; also “μέχρι ἂν ἕξιν λαβεῖν” Ceb.35.
2. as long as, whilst, c. ind., Th.3.10,98, Plb.1.62.4; μ. ἄν c. subj., “μέχρις ἂν ζῶσιν πονεῖν” Men.633; “μέχρις ἂν ἐνδημῶσιν οἱ πρέσβεις” Aen.Tact.10.11, cf. Epict. Ench.11; Dor. “μέχρι κα ζώη” GDI1807.7 (ii B.C.), al.—The μετώπο-ι is elided in IG12.115.15, Supp.Epigr.l.c.—Cf. ἄχρι throughout and sub fin.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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