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ἔν-στα^σις , εως, ἡ, (ἐνίσταμαι)
A.origin, beginning, “τῶν ὅλων πραγμάτων” Aeschin.2.20; “τοῦ πολέμου” Plb.4.62.3; “πραγμάτων” Ph.2.75; institution of legal proceedings, “τὴν ὅλην ἔ. τοῦ ἀγῶνος” Aeschin.1.132.
2. ἔ. βίου a way of life, D.L.6.103, cf. Jul.Or.6.201a.
3. institution of an heir, Cod.Just.1.2.25 Intr., PMasp.151.274 (vi A. D.); inheritance, ib.312.55 (vi A. D.).
II. in Medic., lodgement, “λίθων” Aret.CD2.3.
2. impaction, obstruction, “ὄγκων” Asclep. ap. Gal.10.101, Herod.Med. ap. Orib.5.30.5, etc.: generally, interference, “ὀνύχων” Iamb.Protr.21.ιθ᾽.
III. in Logic, objection to an argument, “ἔ. πρότασις προτάσει ἐναντία” Arist.APr.69a37, cf. Top.157a35, Rh.1402a31, Hermog.Inv.3.6, etc.
2. generally, opposition, Plb.6.17.8 (pl.), Ph.2.60.
3. prosecution, “ἐν μολποῖς” SIG 633.66 (Milet., ii B. C.).
4. χαλεπὴ ἔ. difficult situation, IG12(5).509.4 (Seriphos, iii/ii B. C.).
IV. (ἐνίστημι) winding up an engine, Ph.Bel.61.21, 57.41 (nisi leg. ἔντασις).
V. impact, interference of an object of vision, Placit.4.13.2, Plot.4.5.2.
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 (5):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 132
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 20
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.62.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.17.8
    • Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo, 2.3
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