LSJ
2
system of philosophic principles, or those who profess such principles, sect, school, Plb. 5.93.8, D.S. 2.29, Polystr. p.20 W., D.H. Amm. 1.7, Comp. 2, al., cf. Cic. Fam. 15.16.3; κατὰ τῶν αἱ., title of treatise by Antipater of Tarsus; περὶ αἱρέσεων, title of Menippean satire by Varro, cf. Fr. 164; αἵρεσις πρὸς Γοργιππίδην, title of work by Chrysippus, D.L. 7.191; esp. religious party or sect, of the Essenes, J. BJ 2.8.1; the Sadducees and Pharisees, Act.Ap. 5.17, 15.5, 26.5; the Christians, ib. 24.5, 14, 28.22, generally, faction, party, App. BC 5.2.
II
pronoun, or the use of it, D.H. Comp. 2, A.D. Pron. 4.18.
5
diversify, intersperse, ἐπεισοδίοις δ. τὴν ποίησιν Arist. Po. 1459a36; λόγον περιόδοις D.H. Comp. 2; παραπληρώμασι ib. 16; ποιήσεις μέτροις ib. 26:— Pass., γῆ χρώμασι διειλημμένη marked with various colours, Pl. Phd. 110b; λειμῶνες παντοδαποῖς φυτοῖς διειλ. Luc. Patr.Enc. 10.
II
power, faculty, capacity, αἱ ἀμφὶ τὸ σῶμα δ. Hp. VM 14; αἱ τοῦ σώματος δυνάμεις Pl. Tht. 185e; ἡ τῆς ὄψεως δ. Id. R. 532a; ἡ τῶν λεγόντων δ. D. 22.11: c. gen. rei, capacity for, τῶν ἔργων Arist. Pol. 1309a35; τοῦ λέγειν Id. Rh. 1362b22; τοῦ λόγου, τῶν λόγων, Men. 578, Alex. 94; δ. στρατηγική Plb. 1.84.6; δ. ἐν πραγματείᾳ Id. 2.56.5; δ. συνθετική D.H. Comp. 2: abs., any natural capacity or faculty, that may be improved and may be used for good or ill, Arist. Top. 126a37, cf. MM 1183b28.
II
picking out, selective, δυνάμεις D.H. Comp. 2 fin.; οἱ ἐ. the Eclectics, philosophers who selected such doctrines as pleased them in every school, Gal. 14.684; ἐ. αἵρεσις D.L. Prooem. 21, Gal. 19.353.
II
adverb, D.H. Comp. 2, etc.; περὶ ἐπιρρημάτων, title of work by Apollonius Dyscolus.
2
subject of investigation, Plb. 1.2.1, D.H. Comp. 2.
5
vigour of style, D.H. Pomp. 3, Comp. 2, al.
IV
part, opp. the whole, ὡρέων τρίτατον μ. h.Cer. 399, etc.; τρίτον κασιγνητᾶν μ., i. e. one of three sisters, Pi. P. 12.11; μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων Th. 1.1; τὰ δύο μ. two-thirds, ib. 104, Aeschin. 3.143, D. 59.101; τρία μέρη . . , τὸ δὲ τέταρτον Nic.Dam. 130.17 J.; οὐδὲν ἂν μέρος οὖσαι φανεῖεν τῶν . . no fraction of . . , i. e. infinitesimal compared with . . , Isoc. 5.43, cf. 12.54; ὅσα ἄλλα μ. ἐντὸς τοῦ Ἴστρου parts of the country, regions, Th. 2.96, cf. 4.98; ξυγκαταδουλοῦν . . τὸ τῆς θαλάσσης μ., i. e. the sea as their part of the business, Id. 8.46: hence, branch, business, matter, Men. Epit. 17, Pk. 107, Plb. 1.4.2, 1.20.8, al., PRyl. 127 (i A.D.); τὰ τοῦ σώματος μέλη καὶ μ. Pl. Lg. 795e; division of an army, X. An. 6.4.23, etc.; class or party, Th. 2.37, D. 18.292; of the factions in the circus, πρασίνων μ. POxy. 145.2 (vi A.D.); party in a contract or lawsuit, BGU 168.24 (ii A.D.), PRein. 44.34 (ii A.D.); caste, Str. 15.1.39:—special uses, in Geom., direction, ἐπὶ θάτερον μ. interpol. in Archim. Aequil. 1.13, cf. Euc. 1.27, al.: Arith., submultiple, Id. 7 Def. 3, 4; τὰ μ. the denominators of fractions, Hero *Stereom. 2.14: Gramm., μ. τῆς λέξεως part of speech, Arist. Po. 1456b20, D.H. Comp. 2: more freq. μ. λόγου D.T. 634.4, A.D. Pron. 4.6, al.; μ. λόγου, also, = word, S.E. M. 1.159, Heph. 1.4 (v. λόγος IX 3 c); section of a document, Mitteis Chr. 28.30 (iii B. C.), etc.
II
participle, D.T. 634.5, D.H. Comp. 2, Plu. QPlat. 2.1011c, A.D. Synt. 15.20, al., Poll. 7.9, Eust. 138.16.
consisting of nouns, opp. ῥηματικός, λέξις D.H. Amm. 2.4, Th. 22, Hermog. Id. 1.6 ; τὰ ὀ. nouns substantive, D.H. Comp. 2, 5, 12, al. ; -κὴ θέσις as paraphr. for ὄνομα, A.D. Synt. 313.27 ; -κὴ ὕπαρξις existence in name, opp. οὐσιώδης, ib. 82.3. Adv. -κῶς in noun-form, D.H. Amm. 2.2,5, Str. 9.5.6, A.D. Adv. 204.15.
skilful in embroidery, Poll. 7.34: ἡ -κή (with or without τέχνη) embroidery, ibid., D.H. Comp. 2, Ph. 1.652, Vett.Val. 3.21; π. ἐπιστήμη LXX Jb. 38.36; ποικιλτικά, v.l. for ποικιλτά, ib. Ex. 37.21 ( 38.23).
IV
preposition, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.45, D.T. 634.5, D.H. Comp. 2, A.D. Synt. 305.24, Pron. 64.5.
II
τὰ π. appellatives, opp. τὰ ὀνοματικά, D.H. Comp. 2, etc.; ὄνομα κύριον ἢ π. A.D. Adv. 120.23, cf. D.T. 636.9; τὰ ἁπλᾶ π. Hermog. Stat. 1; περὶ τῶν π., title of work by Chrysippus, D.L. 7.192. Adv. -κῶς by oneʼs common name, Ph. 1.150; τὰ π. ἄρμενα καλούμενα vulgarly called ‘tackle’, Gal. 18(2).717.
3
elements of proof, e.g. in general reasoning the πρῶτοι συλλογισμοί, Arist. Metaph. 1014b1; in Geometry, the propositions whose proof is involved in the proof of other propositions, ib. 998a26, 1014a36; title of geometrical works by Hippocrates of Chios, Leon, Theudios, and Euclid, Procl. in Euc. pp. 66,67, 68F.: hence applied to whatever is one, small, and capable of many uses, Arist. Metaph. 1014b3; to whatever is most universal, e.g. the unit and the point, ib. 6; the line and the circle, Id. Top. 158b35; the τόπος (argument applicable to a variety of subjects), ib. 120b13, al., Rh. 1358a35, al.; στοιχεῖα τὰ γένη λέγουσί τινες Id. Metaph. 1014b10; τὸ νόμισμα σ. καὶ πέρας τῆς ἀλλαγῆς coin is the unit . . of exchange, Id. Pol. 1257b23; in Grammar, σ. τῆς λέξεως parts of speech, D.H. Comp. 2; but also, the letters composing a word, A.D. Synt. 313.7; letters of the alphabet, Diog.Bab. Stoic. 3.213; σ. τοῦ λόγου the elements of speech, viz. words, or the kinds of words, parts of speech, Thphr. ap. Simp. in Cat. 10.24, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.45, A.D. Synt. 7.1, 313.6.
of a colonnade or porch: hence, Stoic (because Zeno taught in the στοὰ Ποικίλη) , οἱ τῆς Σ. αἱρέσεως ἡγεμόνες D.H. Comp. 2, cf. Str. 13.1.57, 14.6.3; ἡ Σ. Phld. Rh. 2.227S., D.L. 6.14; οἱ Σ. the Stoics, Phld. Rh. 2.296S., cf. IG 3.1359, D.L. 7.5; οἱ Σ. φιλόσοφοι Act.Ap. 17.18. ( Στοϊκός in AP 9.496 ( Athenaeus).)