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διά-γνωσις , εως, ἡ,
A.distinguishing, “τὴν δ. ποιεῖσθαι ὁποῖοι ἐκράτουν ἢ ἐκρατοῦντο” Th.1.50; means of distinguishing or discerning, E.Hipp. 926; “καλῶν ἢ μὴ τοιούτων τίς δ.;” D.18.128; “δ. φωνῆς καὶ σιγῆς” Arist. Cael.290b27; of medical diagnosis, “δ. ποιεῖσθαι” Hp.VC10, Gal.8.766, etc.
2. power of discernment, E.Hipp.696.
II. resolving, deciding, “δ. ποιεῖσθαι” Antipho 6.18; “περί τινος” D.18.7; “ταχίστην ἔχει δ.” Isoc.1.34; “τοῦ ὃ πρακτέον ἐστίν” Metrod.Fr.27; δ. τῆς ἀξίας ποιεῖσθαι to determine the value, Pl.Lg.865c; = Lat. cognitio, Act.Ap.25.21, BGU19i20 (ii A. D.), 891r24 (ii A. D.); ἐπὶ διαγνώσεων τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ, = Lat. a cognitionibus Augusti, IG14.1072, cf. Ephes.3 No.51 (iii A. D.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 18
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 128
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 7
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 696
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 926
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 34
    • Plato, Laws, 865c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.50
    • Hippocrates, De capitis vulneribus, 10
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