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ἐπίνοια , ἡ,
A.thinking on or of a thing, thought, notion, οὐδ᾽ ἐς ἐπίνοιαν “ἰέναι τινός” Th.3.46; “ὡς . . ” Id.4.92; “οὐδ᾽ ἐπίνοιαν ποιήσασθαί τινος” Plb.1.20.12; “τὰς ἐ. εἴς τι φέρειν” D.H.Pomp.1; πάσαις ταῖς ἐ. γίγνεσθαι “περί τι” Plb.5.110.10; conception, idea, ἐναργὴς τοῦ πράγματος ἐ. Epicur.Fr.255, cf. Phld.D.3.8, al.; κατ᾽ ἐπίνοιαν in idea, opp. κατὰ περίπτωσιν (q.v.), Stoic.2.29; κατ᾽ ἐ. ψιλὴν ὑφεστάναι ib.159; πᾶσαν “ἐ. ἀτοπίας ὑπερβάλλειν” Plu.2.1065d.
2.. power of thought, inventiveness, οἶνον σὺ τολμᾶς εἰς ἐ. λοιδορεῖν; Ar.Eq.90, cf. X.Cyr.2.3.19; “κατὰ τέχνην καὶ ἐ. γίγνεσθαι” Thphr.Od.7.
3.. invention, device, conceit, “ἐ. ἀστειοτάται” Ar.Eq.539; ζητεῖν καινὴν ἐ. Id.V.346; θαυμαστὰς ἐξευρίσκων ἐ. Id.Eq.1322, etc.; “τέχνης ἐπίνοιαι” Arist.Mu.399b17; “πενία ἐπινοιῶν διδάσκαλος” Secund.Sent.10.
4.. purpose, design, “τίν᾽ ἐ. ἔσχεθες;” E.Ph.408, cf. Med.760 (lyr.); τίς ἐ.; Ar.Th.766, cf. Av.405 (lyr.); “ἥτις ἡ 'πίνοια τῆς ἐγκεντρίδος” Id.V.1073, cf. Pl.45; κατὰ τὴν ἐκφορὰν καὶ τὴν ἐ. Stoic.2.128; “ἡ ἐ. τῆς καρδίας” Act.Ap.8.22: pl., ἐξ οἰκείων ἐ., = sua sponte, OGI580.7 (Cilicia, iv A.D.).
II.. afterthought, second thoughts, “ψεύδει γὰρ ἡ 'πίνοια τὴν γνώμην” S.Ant. 389.
III.. intelligence, κοινὴ ἐ. Plb.6.5.2, cf. Longin. ap. Eus.PE 15.20.
2.. Psychol., reflection on experience, retrospection, Plot.2.9.1, 6.8.7.
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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