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ἐπαγωγ-ή , ἡ,
A.bringing on or to, “τῶν ἐπιτηδείων” Th.5.82,7.24.
2. bringing in to one's aid, introduction, “τὴν τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐ.” Id.3.100, cf. 82 (pl.); introduction of food through the gullet, Arist.Spir.483a9.
3. invasion, attack, “ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐναντίους” Plb.10.23.7: abs., Id.11.15.7.
4. allurement, enticement, “ταῖς ἐλπίσι καὶ ταῖς ἐ.” D.19.322.
b. incantation, spell, in pl., Pl.R.364c, Lg.933d; Ἑκάτης φάσκων ἐπαγωγὴν γεγονέναι saying that Hecate had put it under a spell, Thphr.Char.16.7.
5. process of reasoning, Aristox.Harm.pp.4,53M.
b. esp. in the Logic of Aristotle, argument by induction (cf. “ἐπάγω” 1.10b), “ἐ. ἡ ἀπὸ τῶν καθ᾽ ἕκαστον ἐπὶ τὰ καθόλου ἔφοδος” Top.105a13; “μανθάνομεν ἢ ἐπαγωγῇ ἢ ἀποδείξει” APo.81a40; “διδασκαλία . . ἡ μὲν δι᾽ ἐπαγωγῆς ἡ δὲ συλλογισμῷ” EN1139b27; “ἔστι τὸ μὲν παράδειγμα ἐ., τὸ δ᾽ ἐνθύμημα συλλογισμός” Rh.1356b3; so later συλλογισμοὺς ἢ ἐπαγωγὰς περαίνοντας Polystr.p.11 W., cf. Plot.2.4.6, etc.; also of dialectical argument which leads an opponent into a trap, Gell.6(7).3.34, D.L.3.53.
6. in Tactics, sequence formation, one wing following the other, opp. παραγωγή, Ascl.Tact.10.1,11.2,4.
7. leading away into captivity, captivity, LXX Is.14.17: generally, distress, misery, ib.Si.23.14 (pl.), cf. Hsch.
8. “ἡ τῆς τριχὸς ἐ.” direction of growth, D.S.3.35.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 322
    • Old Testament, Isaiah, 14.17
    • Plato, Laws, 933d
    • Plato, Republic, 364c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.100
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.82
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.24
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 16.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.23.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 11.15.7
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 23.14
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.35
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