διάθεσις (diathesis)

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What it meant

διάθεσις · diathesis — LSJ

placing in order, arrangement

placing in order, arrangement (ἡ τοῦ ἔχοντος μέρη τάξις Arist. Metaph. 1022b1), Antipho Soph. 24a; πολιτείας Pl. Lg. 710b; τῶν ξενίων Id. Ti. 27a.

2 disposition, composition, plan, subject, representation, word-painting, description, rhetorical art

disposition or composition in a work of art (opp. εὕρεσις), Id. Phdr. 236a; opp. ἱστορία, μῦθος, Plb. 34.4.1, Plu. Arat. 32, etc.; δ. ᾠδῆς Eup. 303; τῶν ἐπῶν Phryn.Com. 55; plan of a building, Plu. Per. 13; subject of a picture, etc., Polem. ap. Ath. 5.210b; δ. μυθολογίας Plu. Aud.poet. 2.16b; representation in a play, Hero Aut. 20.2: in pl., word-painting, Plu. Aud.poet. 2.17b; of geographical description, Str. 1.1.16; rhetorical art, μετʼ αὐξήσεως καὶ διαθέσεως Plb. 2.61.1.

b delivery

in oratory, delivery, Plu. Dem. 7; δ. σώματός τε καὶ τόνου φωνῆς Longin. Rh. p.194H.

3 disposition, will, testament

disposition of property, will, testament, = διαθήκη, Lys. Fr. 44, Pl. Lg. 922b.

4 disposing of, sale, means of disposing of, of making away with, inventive disposition

disposing of, sale, τῶν περιόντων Isoc. 11.14, cf. PTeb. 38.10 (ii B.C.), Str. 11.2.12, Plu. Sol. 24; οἷς δ. εὔπορος, perh. means of disposing of it, of making away with it, Arist. Rh. 1372a33 (possibly, inventive disposition).

5 report

δ. ἔγγραφος written report, POxy. 52.13 (iv A.D.).

6

= διάθεμα, Procl. in Cra. p.10P.(pl.).

II bodily state, condition

(from Pass.) bodily state, condition, Hp. VM 7, Arist. GA 778b34; δ. τοῦ σώματος Philem. 95.4; δ. ὑγιεινή, νοσώδης, Gal. 5.826, 17(2).238; ἕξις defined as δ. μόνιμος Id. 5.826; νευρικὴ δ. OGI 331.11 (Pergam.); of the mind, Antipho Soph. 24a; ἕξις ψυχῆς καὶ δ. Pl. Phlb. 11d; distd. from ἕξις, Arist. Cat. 8b28, de An. 417b15, Zeno and Chrysipp.Stoic. 1.50, 3.111; δ. ἁμαρτωλός Phld. Lib. p.560., al.; δ. σωματική, ψυχική, A.D. Synt. 278.10: pl., Diotog. ap. Stob. 4.7.62.

b disposition, propensity

disposition towards persons, Pl. R. 489a; propensity, Cic. Att. 14.3.2; πρός τινα Sch. E. Hec. 8.

2 state, condition

generally, state, condition, τὴν βασιλείαν εἰς τὴν ἀρχαίαν δ. κατέστησεν OGI 219.11 (Sigeum, iv/iii B.C.).

3 force, function, voices, force

Gramm., force, function, τοῦ ὀνόματος δ. εἰσὶ δύο, ἐνέργεια καὶ πάθος (e.g. κριτής, κριτός) D.T. 637.29; esp. of the voices of the verb, δ. εἰσὶ τρεῖς, ἐνέργεια, πάθος, μεσότης Id. 638.8; δ. παθητική, μέση, A.D. Synt. 210.19, 226.10; also of tense, χρονικὴ δ. ib. 251.1 (s.v.l.); διαβατικὴ δ. transitive force, ib. 43.18.

In the wild

διάθεσιν · diathesin Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1745)
διάθεσις · diathesis Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 139)
διαθέσεως · diatheseōs Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 140)
διαθέσεις · diatheseis Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 141)
διαθέσεως · diatheseōs Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 143)
διαθέσεις · diatheseis Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 144)

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