κᾰνον-ικός (kanonikos)

Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

κᾰνον-ικός · kanon-ikos — LSJ

of, belonging to a rule, regular, according to rule

of or belonging to a rule, ἀρχή A.D. Adv. 141.29; regular, according to rule, διαφοραί Gal. 7.417; ἀναλογία Eust. 113.40, etc. Adv -κῶς Artem. 1.1a.

2 connected with assessment

connected with assessment (cf. κανών II.6), PMasp. 131.13 (vi A. D.).

II the mathematical theory of music

ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the mathematical theory of music (Pythag., cf. Ptolemais ap. Porph. in Harm. p.207), based on the division of the monochord (cf. κανών 1.10), Gell. 16.18; κ. θεωρία, τέχνη, Ph. 1.22, Procl. in Euc. p.40F.

2 belonging to an astronomical table, constructors of such tables

belonging to an astronomical table, Vett.Val. 141.14; κανονικοί, οἱ, constructors of such tables, Cleom. 2.6.

3

κανονικόν, τό, the equivalent of Logic in Epicurean philosophy, D.L. 10.30: pl., τὰ κ. S.E. M. 7.22; title of work by Antiochus, ib. 201; ὁ κ. λόγος dub. in Phld. Ir. p.65W.

In the wild

κανονικὸν · kanonikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8788)
κανονικὸν · kanonikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8792)
κανονικὸν · kanonikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8787)

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