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λῆψις, a taking hold, seizing, catching, seizure

λῆψις, εως, ἡ (later λῆμψις POxy. 1088.45 (i A.D.), etc.),
  • 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, 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 of medicine, προλούσας πρὸ τῆς λ. POxy. l.c.
    • II attack of fever or sickness, seizure, ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης λ. Hp. Epid. 1.6, cf. Morb. 1.18, Arist. Pr. 866a26.
    • III in Logic, assumption (cf. λῆμμα II), Id. APr. 24a23, 24b11.
      • 2 τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ λ. from our point of view, Ascl. Tact. 7.8.
    • IV choice of matter, in a poem, etc., Longin. 10.3; cf. λῆμμα III.
    • V choice of pitch, in Music, Ocell. 4.8, Aristid.Quint. 1.11 bis.
    • VI Geom., τὴν τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ ἐκκέντρου λ. the determination of the centre of the eccentric circle, Procl. Hyp. 5.56.

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