λῆξις

λῆξις (A), εως, ἡ, [dialect] Ion. [full] λάξις (q.v.), ([etym.] λαγχάνω)

A determination or appointment by lot,

ἀρχῆς Pl.Lg.765d

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2 portion assigned by lot, allotment, ib.740a, 747e, Criti.109c, 113b; cf. λάξις.

b section of a body, determined by lot, Arist.Ath.30.3, 31.3.

c pl., fortunes,

αἱ διάφοροι τῆς ἀνθρωπείας ψυχῆς λήξεις Simp.

in de An.4.6.

3 without the notion of lot or chance, assigned sphere,

θεῶν καὶ τῶν εἰς θείαν λῆξιν πορευθέντων Jul.Or.6.187c

; ἡ ἑτέρα λ. the other world, Hld.2.24; ἡ ἑῴα λ. the eastern part of the empire, Procop. Gaz.Pan.497.3; ἡ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς λ. the sphere of Athena, Lib.Or.12.36, Decl.1.175, Ep.1065.3; province, τὰς λ. [τῶν θεῶν] Herm. in Phdr. p.74A.; dwelling-place, εἰ . . αἱ λ. τῶν ψυχῶν . . ὑποσέληνοί εἰσιν ib. p.104A.

II as law-term, λ. δίκης or λ. alone, written complaint lodged with the Archon, as the first step in private actions, nearly, = ἔγκλημα, Pl.R.425d, Is.11.10, Aeschin.1.63, cf.

λαγχάνω 1.3

; very rarely of public actions, as in D.39.17.

2 λ. τοῦ κλήρου, an application to the Archon (required of all except direct descendants) to be put in legal possession of an inheritance,

τοῦ κλήρου λαχεῖν τὴν λ. ἠξίωσεν Is.3.2

, cf. Arist.Ath.43.4.

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λῆξις (B), εως, ἡ, ([etym.] λήγω)

A cessation, μόχθων, ἀνέμων, A.Eu.505 (lyr.), A.R.1.1086; of the flow of a river, Ph.1.175;

τῆς ἐνεργείας λῆξιν λαμβανούσης Gal.Phil.Hist.17

, cf. M.Ant.9.21.

2 death, decase, PMasp.19.6 (vi A.D.), etc.

II Gramm., termination, A.D. Synt.104.28;

λ. ἡ εἰς ς ¯ Id.Adv.195.27

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III end, extremity,

τοῦ κόλου Sor.1.7

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