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ὑποστάθμη

upostathme · ἡ

foundation

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Where it lives

Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ὑποστάθμη · hypostathmē — LSJ

foundation

foundation, D.S. 3.44 (pl.).

II sediment, in faece Romuli

= ὐπόστασις B. I.1, sediment, Pl. Phd. 109c, Protagorid. 4, Dsc. 5.103, Plu. Sanit. 2.130b, etc.; ἐν τῇ Ῥωμύλου ὑποστάθμῃ, as a translation of Ciceroʼs in faece Romuli, Plu. Phoc. 3, cf. Cic. Att. 2.1.8; ὑ. τροφῆς, almost = περίττωμα, Hp. Vict. 2.45; of matter, ἡ πάντων ὑ. Dam. Pr. 36, cf. Zeno Stoic. 1.29, Procl. in Alc. p.181 C.

In the wild

ὑποστάθμην · hypostathmēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6386)
ὑποστάθμαι · hypostathmai Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.36.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1546)
ὑποστάθμην · hypostathmēn Plato, Phaedo 109 (DIORISIS sentence 1121)
ὑποστάθμης · hypostathmēs Plotinus, Enneads 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 851)

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