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ἀκοσμ-ία

akosmia · ἡ

disorder, extravagance, excess, disorderliness

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What it meant

ἀκοσμ-ία · akosm-ia — LSJ

disorder, extravagance, excess, disorderliness

disorder, Pl. Grg. 508a, Ael. Tact. 41.2; extravagance, excess, λόγων E. IA 317:—in moral sense, disorderliness (with play on κόσμος II.1), S. Fr. 846: in pl., Pl. Smp. 188b; αἱ ἀ. τοῦ πλήθους Phld. Hom. p.340.

2 absence of κόσμος, chaos

absence of κόσμος, chaos, Dam. Pr. 205.

II abeyance of κόσμοι

abeyance of κόσμοι, in Crete (κόσμος III), Arist. Pol. 1272b8.

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