A). τόπον τὰν καλειμέναν Δαματρείαν IG 9(1).32.80 (Stiris, ii B.C.)), place, region, first in A. (v. infr.), afterwds. freq. in all writers; periphr., χθονὸς πᾶς τ., i.e. the whole earth, A. Eu. 249 ; ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήνων τ. Id. Pers. 790 ; ἐν Ἑλλάδος τόποις in Greece, ib. 796 ; ἐν Αὐλίδοστ. Id. Ag. 191 (lyr.); Πέλοπος ἐντ. Id. Eu. 703 , cf. 292 ; πρὸς ἑσπέρους τ. towards the West, Id. Pr. 350 ; πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνος τόπων before Salamis, Id. Pers. 447 ; Θρῄκης ἐκ τόπων E. Alc. 67 ; Διρκαίων ἐκ τ. Id. Ph. 1027 (lyr.): so in Prose, district, ὁ τ. ὁ Ἑλληνικός Isoc. 5.107 , cf. Ep. 1.8 ; ὁ περὶ Θρᾴκην τ. D. 20.59 ; ὁ ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης τ. Aeschin. 2.9 , 3.73 ; ὁ τ. οὗτος, ἐν τούτοις τοῖς τ., X. An. 4.4.4 , Cyr. 2.4.20 ; ὅλος τ. a whole region, D. 19.230 ; κατὰ τόπους καὶ κώμας Pl. Criti. 119a ; οἱ τῆς χώρας τ. the places of a country, Id. Lg. 760c , etc. (but ὁ τ. τῆς χώρας the geographical position, D. 4.31 ; region, Pl. Lg. 705c ); ὁ ἅγιοστ., of Jerusalem, LXX 2 Ma. 2.18 (cf. infr. 5 ); the universe divided into three τόποι, Arist. IA 706b3 , Cael. 312a8 (contrast PA 666a15 , etc.); οἱ κοινοὶ τ. public sites or buildings, IG 42(1).65.8 (Epid.); ἄσυλος τ. BGU 1053 ii 9 (i B. C.), PTeb. 5.83 (pl., ii B. C.); οἰκίαι καὶ τόποι houses and sites, ib. 281.12 (ii B.C.); so ψιλοὶ τ. sites not built upon, OGI 52.2 (Ptolemais, iii/ii B. C.).

2). place, position, οὐ τὸν τρόπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν τ. μόνον μεταλλάξαι Aeschin. 3.78 ; ὑπολιποῦ τ. leave a space (in a document), PCair.Zen. 327.83 (iii B.C.); περικήπῳ τ. καταλιπεῖν ib. 193.8 (iii B.C.); τ. ἔχειν have a place, D.H. Dem. 23 , Plu. 2.646a ; φίλου τ. ἔχειν hold the place of .. , Arr. Epict. 2.4.5 ; Μερόλας ὁ αἱρεθεὶς ὕπατος εἰς τὸν τοῦ Κίννα τ. D.S. 38 / 39.3 ; ἐνεγράφη εἰς τὴν ἱερωσύνην εἰς τὸν Αευκίου Δομιτίου τ. τετελευτηκότος Nic. Dam. Fr. 127.4J., cf. D.H. 2.73 ; ἀναπληροῦν τὸν τ. τοῦ ἰδιώτου 1 Ep.Cor. 14.16 ; τ. ἔχειν also = have room (to grow), Thphr. HP 1.7.1 ; τόπῳ c. gen., in place of, instead of, Hdn. 2.14.5 ; ἀνὰ τόπον on the spot, immediately, E. Supp. 604 (lyr., dub.l.); so ἐν τόπῳ IG 12(7).515.63 (Amorgos); ἐπὶ τόπου Plb. 4.73.8 ; ἐπὶ τῶν τ. PEnteux. 55.5 (iii B. C.), UPZ 70.16 (ii B.C.), CIL 3.567.3 (Delph., ii B. C.), POxy. 2106.23 (iv A. D.), etc.; κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τ. S.E. P. 3.1 ; παρὰ τόπον at a wrong place, Str. 10.2.21 , Arr. Epict. 3.21.16 (but παρὰ τ. καὶ παρὰ καιρόν by virtue of the place and the time, ib. 3.21.14 ).

3). place or part of the body, Hp. Aph. 2.46 , Loc.Hom.tit., Sor. 2.40 , al., Gal. in titles of works, e.g. περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων, περὶ συνθέσεως φαρμάκων τῶν κατὰ τόπους; esp. ὁ τόπος, pudendum muliebre, Arist. HA 572b28 , 583a15 , cf. Sor. 2.62 (pl.).

4). place, passage in an author, κατὰ τόπους τινὰς τῆς ἱστορίας Plb. 12.25f . 1 , cf. Ph. 2.63 , Ev.Luc. 4.17 , Sor. 2.57 , 58 , etc.; the word is prob. interpolated in X. Mem. 2.1.20 .

5). burial-place, IG 12(7).401 (Amorgos), al., Ev.Marc. 16.6 ; also in codd. of E. Heracl. 1041 (fort. leg. τάφον); later ὁ ἅγιος τ. is freq. of the grave of a martyr, or of a monastery associated with it, PMasp. 94.18 (vi A.D.), etc.

6). in Egypt, district, department, a sub-division of the νομός, = τοπαρχία , PMich.Zen. 43.8 (iii B. C.), Theb.Ostr. 27.2 (ii B. C.): but most freq. in pl., ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν τ. στρατηγός, πράκτωρ, etc., PEnteux. 27.9 (iii B. C.), PRein. 7.17 , 35 (ii B. C.), etc.; οἱ ἔξω τ. dub. sens. in PEnteux. 87.2 (iii B. C.), BGU 1114.6 (i B. C.), etc.

7). a room in a house, τόπον ἕνα ἄνευ ἐνοικίου ib. 896.4 (ii A. D.); δύο τόπους ἤτοι συμπόσια POxy. 1129.10 (V A. D.), cf. 502.34 (ii A. D.), 912.13 (iii A. D.).

8). position on the zodiac, Vett.Val. 139.13 ; esp. the twelve regions of 300 , Ptol. Tetr. 128 , Heph.Astr. 1.12 .

9). αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς καλεῖται τόπος, τῷ περιέχειν τὰ ὅλα Ph. 1.630 , cf. Corp.Herm. 2.12 , Hippol. Haer. 6.32 .

II). topic, Isoc. 5.109 , 10.38 , Aeschin. 3.216 , Plb. 21.19.2 , Phld. Rh. 1.119S., etc.

2). common-place or element in Rhetoric, ὁ τοῦ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον τ. Arist. Rh. 1358a14 , cf. 1396b30 , 1397a7 ; τὸ αὐτὸ λέγω στοιχεῖον καὶ τ. ib. 1403a18 : pl., Phld. Rh. 1.226S.

b). = ὁμολογουμένου πράγματος αὔξησις , Hermog Prog. 11 ; κοινὸς τ. ib. 6 .

c). generally, sphere, ὁ πραγματικὸς τ. D.H. Comp. 1 .

III). metaph., opening, occasion, opportunity, ἐν τ. τινὶ ἀφανεῖ Th. 6.54 (but τρόπῳ is prob. cj.); ὀργῇ διδόναι τ. Plu. 2.462b ; μὴ δίδοτε τ. τῷ διαβόλῳ Ep.Eph. 4.27 ; δότε τ. τῇ ὀργῇ leave room for the wrath (of God), i.e. let God punish, Ep.Rom. 12.19 ; μὴ καταλείπεσθαί σφισι τ. ἐλέους Plb. 1.88.2 ; μετανοίας τ. οὐχ εὗρε Ep.Hebr. 12.17 ; οὐδὲ φυγῆς τόπον εὐμοιρήσαντες Hld. 6.13 ; τ. διδόναι τινί c. inf., give occasion to .. , LXX Si. 4.5 .