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λῆψις

lepsis · ἡ

taking hold, seizing, catching

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Where it lives

Against Zenothemis 1 · 5.28/10k
De Memoria et Reminiscentia 1 · 4.16/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 15 · 2.66/10k
To Philip 2 · 2.28/10k
Zacharias 1 · 2.07/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

λῆψις · lēpsis — LSJ

taking hold, seizing, catching, seizure, seizure

taking hold, seizing, catching, ῥύγχος . . πρὸς τὰς λ. τῶν ζῳδαρίων Arist. PA 662b9; αἱ καμπαὶ τῶν δακτύλων καλῶς ἔχουσι πρὸς τὰς λ. καὶ πιέσεις ib. 687b10; ἀπορώτερος ἡ λ. the seizure of them will be more difficult, Th. 5.110; ἡ λ. τῆς πόλεως the seizure of it, Id. 4.114, cf. 7.25.

2 accepting, receiving, receipts

accepting, receiving, ἥδιστον ὅτῳ πάρεστι λ. ὧν ἐρᾷ καθʼ ἡμέραν S. Fr. 356; ἡ τοῦ μισθοῦ λ. Pl. R. 346d; opp. ἀπόδοσις, ib. 332b; opp. ἀποβολαί (loss), Arist. Rh. 1362a35 (pl.): in pl., receipts, Pl. R. 343d, Alc. 1.123a, Arist. EN 1122a13, al.

b taking

taking of medicine, προλούσας πρὸ τῆς λ. POxy. l.c.

II attack, seizure

attack of fever or sickness, seizure, ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης λ. Hp. Epid. 1.6, cf. Morb. 1.18, Arist. Pr. 866a26.

III assumption

in Logic, assumption (cf. λῆμμα II), Id. APr. 24a23, 24b11.

2 point of view

τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ λ. from our point of view, Ascl. Tact. 7.8.

IV choice of matter

choice of matter, in a poem, etc., Longin. 10.3; cf. λῆμμα III.

V choice of pitch

choice of pitch, in Music, Ocell. 4.8, Aristid.Quint. 1.11 bis.

VI determination

Geom., τὴν τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ ἐκκέντρου λ. the determination of the centre of the eccentric circle, Procl. Hyp. 5.56.

In the wild

λήψει · lēpsei Aristophanes, Frogs 1236
λήψει · lēpsei Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1.710 (DIORISIS sentence 558)
λῆψις · lēpsis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1132)
λῆψις · lēpsis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 4)
λῆψις · lēpsis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 639)
λῆψις · lēpsis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 6)

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