I.a place, Lat. locus, Aesch., etc.; periphr., χθονὸς πᾶς τόπος, i. e. the whole earth, id=Aesch.; Πέλοπος ἐν τόποις in Peloponnesus, id=Aesch., etc.; ὁ τόπος τῆς χώρας the local circumstances of the district, Dem.
2.place, position, Aeschin.
3.a place or passage in an author, NTest., etc.
II.a topic, Aeschin.: a common-place in Rhetoric, Arist.
III.metaph. a place, occasion, opportunity, Thuc.