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ἐξέτ-α^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.close examination, scrutiny, test, Pl.Ap.22e, Tht.210c; “ἡδονῆς ἐ. πᾶσαν ποιήσασθαι” Id.Phlb.55c; “ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι περί τινος” Lycurg.28; ἐ. λαμβάνειν undertake an inquiry, D.18.246; “ἐ. τινος ἔχειν” Th.6.41; ἔσχον τὸ ἴσον εἰς ἐ. I received the copy for examination, PLond.2. 338.24 (ii A.D.), etc.; ἐ. γίγνεται πρός τι comparison is made with . ., Luc.Prom.12.
2. a military inspection or review, ἐ. ὅπλων, ἵππων ποιεῖσθαι, hold a review of . ., Th.4.74, 6.45,96; “τῶν Ἑλλήνων καὶ τῶν βαρβάρων ποιεῖσθαι” X.An.1.2.14; ἐ. σὺν τοῖς ὅπλοις ἐγίγνετο ib.5.3.3.
b. at Rome, ἐ. ἱππέων, = Lat. transvectio equitum, Plu.Aem. 38, D.C.55.31; “ἐ. ἐτησία” Id.63.13.
c. ἐ. τῶν βουλευτῶν, = Lat. lectio Senatus, revision of the Senatorial roll, Id.54.26.
d. ἐ. βίων, of the Roman Census, Plu.Aem.38, cf. J.AJ3.12.4.
e. inspection of articles, IG22.333.11.
3. arrangement, order, Nicom. Harm.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 (15):
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 246
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 3.12.4
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 28
    • Plato, Apology, 22e
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 210c
    • Plato, Philebus, 55c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.74
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.41
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.45
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.2.14
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.3.3
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 38
    • Lucian, Prometheus, 12
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 54.26
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 55.31
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