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place
subs.
P. and V. τόπος, ὁ, χώρα, ἡ, Ar. and P. χωρίον, τό, Ar. and V. χῶρος, ὁ.
Town, fortified place:
P. χωρίον, τό.
Position, site:
P. θέσις, ἡ.
Change places,
v.: P. διαμείβεσθαι τὰς χώρας (Plat.).
If only thirty votes had changed places I should stand acquitted:
P. εἰ τριάκοντα μόναι μετέπεσον τῶν ψήφων ἀπεπεφεύγη ἄν (Plat. Rep. 36a).
Keep in one’s place:
P. μένειν κατὰ χώραν.
Your curl has fallen out of its place:
V. ἀλλʼ ἐξ ἕδρας σοὶ πλόκαμος ἐξέστηχ’ ὅδε (Eur. Bacch. 928).
Give place,
v.: see yield.
Till night give place to day:
V. ἕως ἂν νὺξ ἀμείψηται φάος (Eur. Rhes. 615).
Take place, happen:
P. and V. τυγχά̆νειν, συντυγχά̆νειν, συμβαίνειν, γίγνεσθαι, συμπίπτειν ; see happen.
Rank:
P. and V. τάξῐς, ἡ. ἀξίωμα, τό.
Appointment office:
P. and V. τάξῐς, ἡ.
Duty, task:
P. and V. ἔργον, τό. P. τάξις, ἡ.
It is your place to:
P. and V. σόν ἐστι (infin.), προσήκει σε or σοί (infin.).
Out of place:
use inconvenient.
It is not out of place to ask:
V. πυθέσθαι οὐδὲν ἐστʼ ἔξω δρόμου (Aesch. Choe. 514).
Passage in a book:
P. λόγος, ὁ.
In place of:
P. and V. ἀντί̆ (gen.).
place
v. trans.
P. and V. τῐθέναι.
Set:
P. and V. κᾰθίζειν.
Set up:
P. and V. ἱστά̆ναι, ἱδρύειν ; see put, set.
Appoint:
P. and V. κᾰθιστά̆ναι, προστάσσειν, τάσσειν.
Be placed:
P. and V. κεῖσθαι.
Place in an awkward position:
P. ἀπόρως διατιθέναι (τινά).
Be awkwardly placed:
P. ἀπόρως διακεῖσθαι; see situated.
Place around:
Ar. and P. περῐτῐθέναι (τί τινι), P. and V. περῐβάλλειν (τί τινι), Ar. and V. ἀμφῐτῐθέναι (τί τινι), V. ἀμφῐβάλλειν (τί τινι).
Place on:
P. and V. ἐπῐτῐθέναι (τί τινι).
Place over:
P. and V. ἐφιστά̆ναι (τί τινι).
Place value on: sea value.
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