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δόκησις , εως, ἡ, (δοκέω)
A.opinion, fancy, “δ. δὲ δεῖ λέγειν” Hdt.7.185, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.2.22, etc.; δ. εἰπεῖν, opp. ἐξακριβῶσαι λόγον, S. Tr.426; δ. ἀγνὼς λόγων ἦλθε a vague suspicion was thrown out, Id.OT681 (lyr.); “δ. τῆς ἀληθείας” Th.2.35; δώρων δ. suspicion of bribery, Id.5.16; δ. παρέχειν ὡς . . Plu.Pomp.54.
2. apparition, phantom, “κενὴν δ.” E.Hel.36; σκοπεῖτε μὴ δόκησιν εἴχετ᾽ ἐκ θεῶν ib.119; οὕτω δοκεῖτε τὴν δ. ἀσφαλῆ ib.121.
3. appearance, opp. reality, Ph.1.222; “φάσμα καὶ δ. ἑαυτῆς παρέχειν” Plu.2.392a; “δ. ἰσχίου” Aret.SD 2.12.
II. repute, credit, Th.4.18, Stoic.3.38; “ὁ στρατηγὸς τὴν δ. ἄρνυται” E.Andr.696.
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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