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  "headword": "ἀφαίρεσις",
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    {
      "definition": "",
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          "definition": "<i>taking away, carrying off, removal,</i> Pl. Cri. 46c (pl.); <i>putting off,</i> τοῦ θνητοῦ Hierocl. in CA 27p.483M.; opp. πρόσθεσις, Plu. Lyc. 13 (pl.).",
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              "data": {
                "quote": "τοῦ θνητοῦ",
                "ref": "Hierocl. in CA 27p.483M.",
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              }
            }
          ],
          "children": [
            {
              "definition": "",
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              "children": [
                {
                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>assertion of freedom of a reputed slave,</i> Hyp. Fr. 23.",
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                  "citations": [],
                  "children": []
                },
                {
                  "label": "3",
                  "definition": "<i>amputation,</i> Archig. ap. Orib. 47.13.4.",
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                }
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            },
            {
              "label": "II",
              "definition": "<i>abstraction,</i> ἐξ, διʼ ἀφαιρέσεως, Arist. Cael. 299a16, EN 1142a18; esp. τὰ ἐξ ἀ. <i>mathematics,</i> Id. APo. 81b3, Metaph. 1061a29, al.; opp. ἐκ προσθέσεως, ib. 1077b9; also τὰ ἐν ἀ. ὄντα Id. de An. 429b18, al.:—Cicero jokes on this term, Att. 6.1.2.",
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                  "data": {
                    "quote": "τὰ ἐξ ἀ.",
                    "ref": "Id. APo. 81b3",
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                },
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                  "data": {
                    "quote": "τὰ ἐν ἀ. ὄντα",
                    "ref": "Id. de An. 429b18",
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                }
              ],
              "children": [
                {
                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>removal</i> of initial letters, as in σῦς ὗς, Choerob. in Theod. 1p.148H., cf. A.D. Pron. 55.13, al.; also of medial letters, ib. 93.13; of feet in verse, opp. πρόσθεσις, POxy. 220 iii 3.",
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  "key": "a)fai/resis",
  "type": "main"
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