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ἔκτα^σις , εως, ἡ, (ἐκτείνω)
A.stretching out, extension, Hp.Art.19 ; σκέλους, κώλων, Arist.IA711a30, PA688a16 ; “καμπὴ καὶ ἔ.” Pl.Lg. 795e : metaph., “ἔ. ἄρρητος τῆς ἑαυτοῦ <οὐσίας>” Porph.Sent.28 ; “ἡ εἰς πλῆθος ἔ.” Procl.Inst.128.
2. extent, “φιλίας” Max.Tyr.6.2 ; “παμπληθῆ θεωρίας ἔ.” Iamb.VP29.162.
3. mental tension, v.l. for ἔκστασις in D.H.Comp.15.
4. making explicit, κατ᾽ ἔκτασιν, opp. κατ᾽ ἐπίνοιαν, Theol.Ar.5, cf. 12.
5. impulse, “τοῦ ὀρεκτικοῦ ἐπί τι” Plot.1.1.5.
6. Tact., extension, deployment, “συναγωγαὶ καὶ ἐκτάσεις στρατιᾶς” Pl.R.526d, cf. Onos.10.2.
II. lengthening of a short syllable, D.H.Comp.25 (pl.); “κατ᾽ ἔκτασιν παραλαμβάνεσθαι” D.T.632.32 ; “ἔστιν ἐν ἐκτάσει τοῦ ι_” A.D.Adv.161.6.
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 (6):
    • Plato, Laws, 795e
    • Plato, Republic, 526d
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 19
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 15
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 25
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 10.2
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