- ἐπίδειξις
- ἐπίδειξις, [dialect] Ion. [full] ἐπίδεξις, εως, ἡ,A showing forth, making known, τοῦτο ἐς ἐ. ἀνθρώπων ἀπίκετο became notorious, Hdt.2.46.2. exhibition, display, demonstration,
τῆς δυνάμεως Th.6.31
; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι, of a military demonstration, Id.3.16; ἓν τοῦτ' ἦν τῆς ἐ. showing off, Pl. Grg.447c: generally, ἐ. ποιήσασθαι ᾗ . . exhibit how . . , Id.Phd.99d; ἐλθεῖν εἰς ἐπίδειξίν τινι come to display oneself to one, Ar.Nu.269; ἡ ἐ. (sc. τοῦ κάλλους) X.Mem.3.11.2;ἐ. ποιήσασθαι τῆς σοφίας Arist. Pol.1259a19
.3. esp.λόγων ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι D.18.280
: abs., set speech, declamation, Th.3.42;ἐ. ποιήσασθαι Pl.Grg.447c
, cf. Isoc.4.17, 5.17: pl., SIG577.53 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.), 775.3 (Delph., i B.C.).b. name of a trireme at Athens, IG22.1623.144.4. proof, Men.161.2 (pl.), PTaur.1.1 vii 7 (pl., ii B.C.), etc.II. example, ἐπίδειξις Ἑλλάδι an example to Greece, E.Ph.871; ἐπίδειξιν ποιεῖσθαί τινι ὡς . . give a sign or proof that . . , Aeschin.1.47.
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