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γυμνᾰσ-τικός

gumnastikos

fond of athletic exercises, skilled in them

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Where it lives

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What it meant

γυμνᾰσ-τικός · gymnas-tikos — LSJ

fond of athletic exercises, skilled in them, of the gymnastic master, gymnastics

fond of athletic exercises, skilled in them, Hp. Aph. 1.3; γ. ἢ ἰατρός Pl. Prt. 313d: Comp., Philostr. Gym. 35: Sup., ib. 11; of the gymnastic master (opp. παιδοτρίβης, q.v.), Arist. Pol. 1288b18; γ. [θεραπεία] Pl. Grg. 464b: ἡ-κή (with or without τέχνη), gymnastics, Id. Smp. 187a, etc. Adv. -κῶς Ar. V. 1212.

II suited for dialectical discussion, by means of testing

γ. λῆμμα (opp. ῥητορικόν) suited for dialectical discussion, Stoic. 2.76. Adv. -κῶς by means of testing, Simp. in Ph. 139.3.

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