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ἐπιστα^τ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for government: ἡ -κή (sc. ἐπιστήμη) Pl.Plt.292b, 308e; “δυνάμεις ἐ. τῆς φύσεως” Iamb. Myst.2.1.
2.. concerning an “ἐπιστάτης, γραφή” Arist.Ath.59.2.
b.. -κόν, τό, tax levied for the support of an ἐ., BGU337.2 (iii A.D.); ἐ. “ἱερέων” PFay.42（a） ii8 (ii A.D.).
3.. careful, attentive, Syrian. in Metaph.13.6. Adv. -κῶς ib.6.6, S.E.M.7.182.
4.. ἐ. πρός τι giving an impulse towards, Phld.Mus.p.84K.
5.. scientific, “κατάλημμα” D.L.7.45.
II.. steady, calm, Aët.6.8. Adv. -κῶς, gloss on ἐπισταδόν, Sch. A.R. 2.84.
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 (4):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 59.2
    • Plato, Statesman, 292b
    • Plato, Statesman, 308e
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.84
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