- λῆψις
- λῆψις, εως, ἡ (later [full] λῆμψις POxy.1088.45 (i A.D.), etc.),A taking hold, seizing, catching,
ῥύγχος . . πρὸς τὰς λ. τῶν ζῳδαρίων Arist.PA662b9
; αἱ καμπαὶ τῶν δακτύλων καλῶς ἔχουσι πρὸς τὰς λ. καὶ πιέσεις ib.687b10; ἀπορώτερος ἡ λ. the seizure of them will be more difficult, Th.5.110; ἡ λ. τῆς πόλεως the seizure of it, Id.4.114, cf. 7.25.2 accepting, receiving,ἥδιστον ὅτῳ πάρεστι λ. ὧν ἐρᾷ καθ' ἡμέραν S.Fr.356
;ἡ τοῦ μισθοῦ λ. Pl.R.346d
; opp. ἀπόδοσις, ib.332b; opp. ἀποβολαί (loss), Arist.Rh.1362a35 (pl.): in pl., receipts, Pl.R.343d, Alc.1.123a, Arist. EN1122a13, al.b taking of medicine, προλούσας πρὸ τῆς λ. POxy. l.c.II attack of fever or sickness, seizure,ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης λ. Hp.Epid.1.6
, cf. Morb.1.18, Arist.Pr.866a26.III in Logic, assumption (cf.λῆμμα 11
), Id.APr.24a23, 24b11.2 τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ λ. from our point of view, Ascl.Tact.7.8.IV choice of matter, in a poem, etc., Longin.10.3; cf.λῆμμα 111
.V choice of pitch, in Music, Ocell.4.8, Aristid.Quint.1.11 bis.VI Geom., τὴν τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ ἐκκέντρου λ. the determination of the centre of the eccentric circle, Procl.Hyp.5.56.
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