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ἀναλογ-ία , ἡ, (λόγος)
A.mathematical proportion, Pl.Ti. 31c, 32c; “ἡ ἀ. ἰσότης ἐστὶ λόγων” Arist.EN1131a31; of progressions, ἀ. γεωμετρική ib.b13; ἀριθμητική ib.1106a36, cf. Ael.Tact.10.3; ἁρμονική Thrasyll. ap. Theo.Sm.p.85H., Nicom.Ar.2.22; “κατὰ τὴν ἀ.” comparing the ratios, Arist.Pol.1282b40; τὸ κατ᾽ ἀ. ἴσον ib.1301a27; “ὑπὲρ τὴν ἀ. τινός” out of proportion, Olymp. in Mete.89.22.
2. proportion generally, Arist.Pol.1296b25, cf. Epicur.Nat.11.7,10.
II. analogy, Arist.HA486b19, Epicur.Fr.212, etc.
2. esp. grammatical analogy, Gell.2.25, A.D.Synt.36.23, etc.
III. relation, ἀ. ἔχειν stand in relation with, “πρός τι” Phld.Lib.p.38O., cf. p.51O.
IV. correspondence, resemblance, ὁμοιότης ἢ ἀ. [τινί] Id.Sign.37, cf. Fr.3; κατ᾽ -ίαν, opp. διαφοράν, Id.D.1.22.
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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