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ἐπίθεσις , εως, ἡ,
A.setting on its base, “τοῦ ἀνδριάντος” CIG3124 (Teos).
2.. laying or putting on, opp. ἀφαίρεσις, Arist.Juv.470a11; “τῶν χειρῶν” Act.Ap.8.18, etc.; application, “περιχρίστων” Plu.2.102a, cf. Luc.DDeor.13.1 (prob.).
3.. application of epithets, τὰς ἐ. “ποιεῖσθαι” Arist.Rh.1405b22.
4.. imposition of increased burdens, Cat.Cod.Astr.7.134.
II.. (from Med.) setting upon, attack, Antipho 2.2.13; “ἐ. γίγνεταί τινι” X.An.4.4.22; “ἡ Περσῶν ἐ. τοῖς Ἕλλησι” Pl.Lg.698b; τῶν ἐ. αἱ μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ σῶμα γίγνονται τῶν ἀρχόντων attempts, Arist.Pol.1311a31; ἐ. συστῆσαι ἐπί τινα ib.1306b35; ποιεῖσθαι ib.1312a20; “λῃστῶν” PPetr.3p.60 (iii B.C., prob.); “κατά τινος” D.H.5.7; “ἡ διὰ τοῦ πυρὸς ἐ. τοῖς ἔργοις” Plb.1.45.2; of disease, aggravated attack, Sor.2.49 (pl.).
2.. c. gen., attempt to gain, “τῆς τυραννίδος” D.S.13.92, etc.
3.. small urn placed on a σορός, IGRom.4.1284 (Thyatira).
4.. imposture, deception, Aq.Pr.11.1, al.
5.. Pythag. name for two, Hsch.
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 (8):
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 2.13
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.92
    • Plato, Laws, 698b
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.4.22
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.45.2
    • New Testament, Acts, 8.18
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 13.1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 5.7
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