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ἔννοια , ἡ, (νοῦς)
A.act of thinking, reflection, cogitation (“συντονία διανοίας” Pl.Def.414a); “ἄξιον ἐννοίας” Id.Lg.657a,al.
2. notion, conception, “χρόνου ἔννοια” Id.Ti.47a; “ἐν ταῖς περὶ τὸ ὂν . . ἐννοίαις” Id.Phlb. 59d; ἔ. λαβεῖν to form an idea, opp. αἴσθησιν λαβεῖν, Id.Phd.73c; “τοῦ καλοῦ ἔ. ἔχειν” Arist.EN1179b15; “ἐννοίας χάριν λέγειν” Id.Metaph. 1073b12; ἔννοιαι, opp. φαντασίαι, αἰσθήσεις, Id.MA701b17; “κατὰ ἀθρόαν ἔ.” Epicur.Ep.1p.23U. (but κατὰ πᾶσαν ἔ. θυμοῦ every kind, variety of anger, Phld.Ir.p.90 W.); “δοξαστικαὶ ἔ.” Epicur.Sent.24; “εἰς ἔ. ἔρχεσθαί τινος” Plb.1.57.4; εἰς ἔ. τινὸς ἄγειν τινά ib.49.10; ἡ κοινὴ ἔ. the common notion, Id.10.27.8; κοιναὶ ἔ. axioms, heading in Euc.; general ideas, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.154, etc.; ψιλὴ ἔ. mere, i.e. vague, notion, Simp. in Ph.18.1.
3. intent, E.Hel.1026; ἔννοιαν λαβεῖν form a design, Id.Hipp.1027; intention of a testator, Is.1.13; “ἔ. ἔχειν περί τι” Pl.Lg.769e; ἔ. ἐμποιεῖν put an idea into one's head, Isoc.5.150; “ἔ. ἐμπίπτει τινί” X.An.3.1.13.
4. good sense, better judgement, “παρὰ τὴν ἔννοιαν” Plu.2.1077d.
II. sense of a word, D.C.69.21.
III. Rhet., thought, opp. diction (λέξις), Hermog.Id.2.4, cf. Prog.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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    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1179b.15
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    • Isocrates, To Philip, 150
    • Plato, Laws, 657a
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.1.13
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.27.8
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    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 69.21
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