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Ἑλλην-ισμός

*ellenismos · ὁ

imitation of the Greeks, Hellenism

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

Ἑλλην-ισμός · Hellēn-ismos — LSJ

imitation of the Greeks, Hellenism

imitation of the Greeks, Hellenism, LXX 2 Ma. 4.13.

II use of a pure Greek style and idiom

use of a pure Greek style and idiom, as an ἀρετὴ λόγου, Diog.Bab.Stoic. 3.214, cf. Phld. Po. 2.18, A.D. Pron. 71.25, S.E. M. 1.98; ἔνιοι λέγουσιν Ἑ. εἶναι τὸν ποιητήν (i.e. Homer), Lex.Vind. 311; περὶ Ἑλληνισμοῦ, title of works by Seleucus, Ath. 9.367a; by Ptolemy of Ascalon, Philoxenus and Tryphon, Suid.; κανόνες Ἑλληνισμοῦ, title of work by Irenaeus, Id.

2 use of the κοινή

use of the κοινή, opp. to strict Atticism, POxy. 1012Fr. 17.

III paganism

paganism, Jul. Ep. 84a; ἡ τοῦ Ἑ. δυσσέβεια Cod.Just. 1.11.9.1.

In the wild

Ἑλληνισμὸς · Hellēnismos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5874)
Ἑλληνισμός · Hellēnismos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5873)
Ἑλληνισμοῦ · Hellēnismou Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 4

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