The corpus record

θίξις

thixis · ἡ

touching, which it touches, apprehension

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Where it lives

De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

touching, which it touches

touching, Hp. Mul. 1.40, Arist. GA 751a19, Ph. 202a7, Gal. 15.45, S.E. P. 3.56, al.; ἄχρι τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης κατὰ θίξιν as far as the Red Sea, which it touches, Vett.Val. 12.20, cf. 13.19; ὁ κατὰ θίξιν περισκυθισμός a scalp operation in which the edges of the wound were made to touch, Arch.Pap. 4.270 (iii A.D.), cf. Archig. ap. Gal. 12.577 (where θῆξιν).

II apprehension

metaph., apprehension of the mind, Plot. 5.3.10: pl., Procl. in Prm. p.628S.

In the wild

θίξις · thixis Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 159)
θίξις · thixis Plotinus, Enneads 5.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3801)

Where it came from

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