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στα^τ-ικός , ή, όν, (ἵστημι)
A.causing to stand, bringing to a stand-still, Arist.Pr. 908a24; ἀρχὴ ς. principle of rest, opp. κινητική, Id.Metaph.1049b8, cf. 1019a35, Top.127b16; “ἄρτου γένος ς. κοιλίας” Str.17.2.5 (nisi σταλτ- legend.), cf. Philistion ap.Ath.3.115d: hence, astringent, Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.3.80f (Comp.); ἡ -κή an astringent herb, thrift, Armeria canescens, Dsc.Eup.2.87; ς. πόα ib.1.110.
2. περὶ ς. ποιήσεως, composition of στάσιμα (q.v.), title of work by Ptolemaeus, An.Boiss.4.458.
II. (“ἵστημι” A. IV) skilled in weighing, Pl.Just. 373c, 373e: ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the art of weighing, Id.Chrm.166b; opp. μετρητική, Id.Phlb.55e. Adv. “-κῶς” Poll.4.171.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Plato, Philebus, 55e
    • Plato, Charmides, 166b
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