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ἐπί-γνωσις , εως, ἡ,
A.recognition, c.gen., Phld.Lib. p.49O.; “σφραγίδων” Hdn.7.6.7; [τινῶν] διὰ βοῆς, δι᾽ ὀμμάτων, J.BJ6.2.6; “ἐς ἐπίγνωσιν” App.Praef.13; recognition of a mistake, D.S.17.114; determination of a fact, PTeb.24.23 (ii B.C.).
2.. knowledge, “τινός” Plb.3.7.6, 3.31.4, Attal. ap. Hipparch.1.8.10, cf.Ph.Bel.59.2; τοῦ “μέλλοντος” Ph.2.222; “μουσικῆς” Plu.2.1145a; “θεοῦ” LXXPr.2.5, cf.Ep. Rom.10.2, etc.; τὸν θεὸν ἔχειν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει ib.1.28, etc.; λαβὼν κανόνας “εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν τῆς ἀληθείας” Arr.Epict.2.20.21, cf. S.E.M.7.259; ἐ. ἐπιστημονική scientific theory, Theol.Ar.17.
II.. decision, πρὸς “-σιν κεκαθίκασιν” SIG826D16; θεῶν ἐ. Him. Or.1.17.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.114
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 6.2.6
    • Old Testament, Proverbs, 2.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.31.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.7.6
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