A.loosing, releasing, ransoming, “νεκροῖο” Il.24.655; “σώματος” Lys.4.13; “ἡ λ. τῆς αἰσθήσεως ἐγρήγορσις” Arist.Somn.Vig.454b27: c. gen. objecti, θανάτου λ. deliverance from death, Od.9.421, Thgn.1010; “λ. ἔριδος” Hes.Th.637; “χρεέων” Id.Op. 404; “πενίης” Thgn.180; “λύσιν αἰτησόμενοι τῶν παρεόντων κακῶν” Hdt. 6.139; “πενθέων” Pi.N.10.76; “μόχθων τῶν ἐφεστώτων” S.Tr.1171; “τῶν δειμάτων” Th.2.102; “τῶν δεσμῶν” Pl.R.515c; ἀπὸ τῶν δεσμῶν ib.532b; “ἐκ χαλεπῶν” Thgn.1385; “βλασφημίας” D.Ep.3.39; “μάχης” PLips.40 ii 16 (iv/v A. D.).
2. abs., οὐ γὰρ λ. ἄλλη στρατῷ πρὸς οἶκον no other means of letting the host loose from port for home, S.El.573.
3. deliverance from guilt by expiatory rites, ὅπως λ. τιν᾽ ἡμὶν εὐαγῆ πόρῃς may'st grant us a deliverance such as may purify us, Id.OT921; οὐδ᾽ ἔχει λύσιν [τὰ πήματα] admit not of atonement, Id.Ant.598 (lyr.); “λύσεις τε καὶ καθαρμοὶ ἀδικημάτων” Pl.R.364e; τῇ [τῆς φιλοσοφίας] λύσει καὶ καθαρμῷ by her offer to release them, Id.Phd.82d; αἱ νομιζόμεναι λ., in cases of homicide, Arist.Pol.1262a32; λ. ἁμαρτημάτων blotting out of sins, Ph.2.151.
4. redemption of mortgage or pledge, [“χωρίον] πεπραμένον ἐπὶ λύσει” IG2.1103, al., cf. 12(7).55.14 (Amorgos), 12(8).18 (Lemnos).
b. release, discharge from a financial obligation, “λύσιν ποιήσασθαι τῆς συγχωρήσεως” BGU1115.46 (i B. C.), etc.
II. loosing, parting, “λ. καὶ χωρισμὸς ψυχῆς ἀπὸ σώματος” Pl.Phd.67d; simply, “ἡ τοῦ σώματος λ.” Id.Ax.371a; dissolution, “πολιτείας” Id.Lg.945c; “νόμων ἢ πολιτείας” Arist.Pol.1268b30; “βίου λύσιν ἔσχε” IG14.140 (Syracuse); “λ. κομήτου” Phlp.in Mete.86.25; τῶν σφραγίδων αἱ λ. breaking them, Luc.Alex. 20.
2. emptying, evacuation, πείνη μέν που λ. καὶ λύπη; Pl.Phlb.31e; ἡ λ. τῶν κοιλιῶν, κοιλίας, Arist.Pr.947b29, Dsc.1.64 (v.l.); emission of semen, Alex.Aphr.Pr.1.125 (pl.).
3. λ. πυρετοῦ remission of fever, Gal.11.28; λ., opp. κρίσις, Id.9.732; cure, Anon.Lond.3.20; τὰ πάθη defined as συστολαὶ καὶ λύσεις (v.l. χύσεις)τῆς ψυχῆς, opp. κρίσεις, Zeno Stoic.3.113 = 1.51.
4. as a technical term,
a. solution of a difficulty, ἡ λ. τῆς ἀπορίας its solution, Arist.EN1146b7, al.; ἔχει τινὰ λ. πρὸς ταύτην τὴν ἀπορίαν, ὅτι . . Id.de An.422b28; “οὐ συμβαίνει ἡ λ.” Id.EN1153b5; “ὅταν τὸ θάμβος . . μὴ δύνηται τὴν λ. λαμβάνειν” Epicur.Ep.1p.29U.; “εὑρεῖν λ. τοῦ προβλήματος” Plb.30.19.5; “λ. εὑρέσθαι” Phld.Rh.1.267 S.; also, interpretation, “σημείων τεράτων τε λύσεις” Orph.A.37.
b. refutation of an argument, Arist.SE179a27, Rh. 1402b23, al.
d. softening of a strong expression, Longin.38.5.
f. looseness of structure in writing, esp. asyndeton, ib.192, al.
g. in metric, resolution of _ into ^^, Heph.6.