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τόπος, τόπος, τόπου, ὁ, place

τόπος, ὁ (fem. by attraction τόπον τὰν καλειμέναν Δαματρείαν IG 9(1).32.80 (Stiris, ii B.C.)),
  • place, region, first in A. (v. infr.), afterwds. freq. in all writers; periphr., χθονὸς πᾶς τ., i.e. the whole earth, A. Eu. 249; ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήνων τ. Id. Pers. 790; ἐν Ἑλλάδος τόποις in Greece, ib. 796; ἐν Αὐλίδοστ. Id. Ag. 191 (lyr.); Πέλοπος ἐντ. Id. Eu. 703, cf. 292; πρὸς ἑσπέρους τ. towards the West, Id. Pr. 350; πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνος τόπων before Salamis, Id. Pers. 447; Θρῄκης ἐκ τόπων E. Alc. 67; Διρκαίων ἐκ τ. Id. Ph. 1027 (lyr.): so in Prose, district, ὁ τ. ὁ Ἑλληνικός Isoc. 5.107, cf. Ep. 1.8; ὁ περὶ Θρᾴκην τ. D. 20.59; ὁ ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης τ. Aeschin. 2.9, 3.73; ὁ τ. οὗτος, ἐν τούτοις τοῖς τ., X. An. 4.4.4, Cyr. 2.4.20; ὅλος τ. a whole region, D. 19.230; κατὰ τόπους καὶ κώμας Pl. Criti. 119a; οἱ τῆς χώρας τ. the places of a country, Id. Lg. 760c, etc. (but ὁ τ. τῆς χώρας the geographical position, D. 4.31; region, Pl. Lg. 705c); ὁ ἅγιοστ., of Jerusalem, LXX 2 Ma. 2.18 (cf. infr. 5); the universe divided into three τόποι, Arist. IA 706b3, Cael. 312a8 (contrast PA 666a15, etc.); οἱ κοινοὶ τ. public sites or buildings, IG 42(1).65.8 (Epid.); ἄσυλος τ. BGU 1053 ii 9 (i B. C.), PTeb. 5.83 (pl., ii B. C.); οἰκίαι καὶ τόποι houses and sites, ib. 281.12 (ii B.C.); so ψιλοὶ τ. sites not built upon, OGI 52.2 (Ptolemais, iii/ii B. C.).
      • 2 place, position, οὐ τὸν τρόπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν τ. μόνον μεταλλάξαι Aeschin. 3.78; ὑπολιποῦ τ. leave a space (in a document), PCair.Zen. 327.83 (iii B.C.); περικήπῳ τ. καταλιπεῖν ib. 193.8 (iii B.C.); τ. ἔχειν have a place, D.H. Dem. 23, Plu. QConv. 2.646a; φίλου τ. ἔχειν hold the place of . ., Arr. Epict. 2.4.5; Μερόλας ὁ αἱρεθεὶς ὕπατος εἰς τὸν τοῦ Κίννα τ. D.S. 38/39.3; ἐνεγράφη εἰς τὴν ἱερωσύνην εἰς τὸν Λευκίου Δομιτίου τ. τετελευτηκότος Nic. Dam. Fr. 127.4J., cf. D.H. 2.73; ἀναπληροῦν τὸν τ. τοῦ ἰδιώτου 1 Ep.Cor. 14.16; τ. ἔχειν also = have room (to grow), Thphr. HP 1.7.1; τόπῳ c. gen., in place of, instead of, Hdn. 2.14.5; ἀνὰ τόπον on the spot, immediately, E. Supp. 604 (lyr., dub.l.); so ἐν τόπῳ IG 12(7).515.63 (Amorgos); ἐπὶ τόπου Plb. 4.73.8; ἐπὶ τῶν τ. PEnteux. 55.5 (iii B. C.), UPZ 70.16 (ii B.C.), CIL 3.567.3 (Delph., ii B. C.), POxy. 2106.23 (iv A. D.), etc.; κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τ. S.E. P. 3.1; παρὰ τόπον at a wrong place, Str. 10.2.21, Arr. Epict. 3.21.16 (but παρὰ τ. καὶ παρὰ καιρόν by virtue of the place and the time, ib. 3.21.14).
      • 3 place or part of the body, Hp. Aph. 2.46, Loc.Hom. tit., Sor. 2.40, al., Gal. in titles of works, e.g. περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων, περὶ συνθέσεως φαρμάκων τῶν κατὰ τόπους; esp. ὁ τόπος, pudendum muliebre, Arist. HA 572b28, 583a15, cf. Sor. 2.62 (pl.).
      • 4 place, passage in an author, κατὰ τόπους τινὰς τῆς ἱστορίας Plb. 12.25f.1, cf. Ph. 2.63, Ev.Luc. 4.17, Sor. 2.57, 58, etc.; the word is prob. interpolated in X. Mem. 2.1.20.
      • 5 burial-place, IG 12(7).401 (Amorgos), al., Ev.Marc. 16.6; also in codd. of E. Heracl. 1041 (fort. leg. τάφον); later ὁ ἅγιος τ. is freq. of the grave of a martyr, or of a monastery associated with it, PMasp. 94.18 (vi A.D.), etc.
      • 6 in Egypt, district, department, a sub-division of the νομός, = τοπαρχία, PMich.Zen. 43.8 (iii B. C.), Theb.Ostr. 27.2 (ii B. C.): but most freq. in pl., ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν τ. στρατηγός, πράκτωρ, etc., PEnteux. 27.9 (iii B. C.), PRein. 7.17, 35 (ii B. C.), etc.; οἱ ἔξω τ. dub. sens. in PEnteux. 87.2 (iii B. C.), BGU 1114.6 (i B. C.), etc.
      • 7 a room in a house, τόπον ἕνα ἄνευ ἐνοικίου ib. 896.4 (ii A. D.); δύο τόπους ἤτοι συμπόσια POxy. 1129.10 (V A.D.), cf. 502.34 (ii A. D.), 912.13 (iii A. D.).
      • 8 position on the zodiac, Vett.Val. 139.13; esp. the twelve regions of 300, Ptol. Tetr. 128, Heph.Astr. 1.12.
      • 9 αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς καλεῖται τόπος, τῷ περιέχειν τὰ ὅλα Ph. 1.630, cf. Corp.Herm. 2.12, Hippol. Haer. 6.32.
    • II topic, Isoc. 5.109, 10.38, Aeschin. 3.216, Plb. 21.19.2, Phld. Rh. 1.119S., etc.
      • 2 common-place or element in Rhetoric, ὁ τοῦ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον τ. Arist. Rh. 1358a14, cf. 1396b30, 1397a7; τὸ αὐτὸ λέγω στοιχεῖον καὶ τ. ib. 1403a18: pl., Phld. Rh. 1.226S.
        • b = ὁμολογουμένου πράγματος αὔξησις, Hermog. Prog. 11; κοινὸς τ. ib. 6.
        • c generally, sphere, ὁ πραγματικὸς τ. D.H. Comp. 1.
    • III metaph., opening, occasion, opportunity, ἐν τ. τινὶ ἀφανεῖ Th. 6.54 (but τρόπῳ is prob. cj.); ὀργῇ διδόναι τ. Plu. Cohib. 2.462b; μὴ δίδοτε τ. τῷ διαβόλῳ Ep.Eph. 4.27; δότε τ. τῇ ὀργῇ leave room for the wrath (of God), i.e. let God punish, Ep.Rom. 12.19; μὴ καταλείπεσθαί σφισι τ. ἐλέους Plb. 1.88.2; μετανοίας τ. οὐχ εὗρε Ep.Hebr. 12.17; οὐδὲ φυγῆς τόπον εὐμοιρήσαντες Hld. 6.13; τ. διδόναι τινί c. inf., give occasion to . ., LXX Si. 4.5.

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