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ἔντα^σις , εως, ἡ, (ἐντείνω)
A.inscribing, “εἰς τὸν κύκλον” Pl.Men.87b.
II. tension, straining, “τοῦ ὑποχονδρίου” Hp.Epid.3.1.β́; τοῦ σώματος Id. Aër.4; “τῶν ῥάβδων” Id.Fract.30; ὀφθαλμῶν fixed stare, prob. in Aret. CD1.3 (pl.); distension, “αἰδοίων” Gal.7.728.
2. exertion, Plu.2.948b, Aret.SA2.2; pl., retchings, Id.CD2.13.
3. ἡ τοῦ προσώπου ἔ. the assumption of a serious face, Luc.Symp.28; earnestness, “περὶ ἑκάστου” Porph.Abst.1.54; strictness, “νόμων” PSorb.675.14 (iii A. D.).
4. Arch., swelling in the outline of a column, Vitr.3.3.13.
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, Meno, 87b
    • Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 3.1
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 30
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.2
    • Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo, 1.3
    • Lucian, Symposium, 28
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