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δόσις , εως, ἡ, (δίδωμι)
A.giving, “φαρμάκου” Antipho 1.18; “χρημάτων” Hdt.1.61; “μισθοῦ” Th.1.143; opp. αἴτησις, Pl.Euthphr.14d; “δ. χρημάτων καὶ λῆψις” Arist.EN1107b8; “λήψεις καὶ δόσεις” Arr.Epict.2.9.12, cf. LXX Si.41.19, Ep.Phil.4.15.
b. licence, permission, SIG 987.33 (Chios, iv B. C.).
2. ἐμβολῶν δ. ramming in naval tactics, D.S.13.10.
II. gift, “καί οἱ δ. ἔσσεται ἐσθλή” Il.10.213; “δ. ὀλίγη τε φίλη τε” Od.6.208, 14.58, cf. Hdt. 1.90, 9.93, S.OT1518, etc.; “δόσιν κακὰν κακῶν κακοῖς” A.Pers.1041 (lyr.); “θεῶν εἰς ἀνθρώπους” Pl.Phlb. 16c.
2. bequest, legacy: κατὰ δόσιν by will (opp. κατὰ γένος, as heir-at-law), Is.4.7, Isoc.19.45, cf. Harp.
3. largess, = Lat. congiarium, Hdn.6.8.8 (pl.).
4. contribution towards the fulfilment of a purpose, Chrysipp.(?)Stoic.3.30.
5. payment on account, instalment, IG12.296, 7.303.35 (Orop.), etc.; payment in kind, PMasp.146.4 (vi A. D.), al.
6. portion, LXXGe.47.22, al., BGU1122.12 (i B. C.); “διελὼν εἰς δόσεις” Plu.Arat.13.
7. dose of medicine, Dsc.2.171; δ. τελεία full dose, Ruf. ap. Orib.8.57.5, etc., cf. Luc.Abd.4.
8. τῆς οἰκονομίας πολλὴν ποιεῖσθαι δ. lay great stress on an arrangement, D.H.Dem.51; οὐ τοσαύτην ποιούμενοι τῆς ἡδονῆς δ. ὅσην τῆς ἀληθείας ib.18.
9. destiny, fate of an individual, “ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη δ.” Iamb.Myst. 1.3; esp. of planetary influence, Plot.2.3.2, al.
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 (22):
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 1041
    • Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, 18
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.10
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.61
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.90
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.93
    • Homer, Iliad, 10.213
    • Homer, Odyssey, 14.58
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.208
    • Isaeus, Nicostratus, 7
    • Isocrates, Aegineticus, 45
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 47.22
    • New Testament, Philippians, 4.15
    • Plato, Euthyphro, 14d
    • Plato, Philebus, 16c
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1518
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.143
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 41.19
    • Plutarch, Aratus, 13
    • Lucian, Abdicatus, 4
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 18
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 51
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