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ἐπιστήμη , ἡ, (ἐπίσταμαι)
A.acquaintance with a matter, understanding, skill, as in archery, S.Ph.1057; in war, Th.1.121, 6.72, 7.62; “ἐ. πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον” Lys.33.7 (fort. leg. περί）“ περὶ τὰ μαθήματα” Pl. Phlb.55d; “τοῦ νεῖν” Id.Grg.511c; ἐπιστήμῃ skilfully, οἱ μὴ ἐ. τοὺς ἐπαίνους “ποιούμενοι” Plot.5.5.13.
2.. professional skill: hence, profession, “οἱ τὴν ἰατρικὴν ἐ. μεταχειριζόμενοι” PFay.106.22 (ii A.D.); ζωγράφος τὴν ἐ. painter by profession, POxy.896.5 (iv A.D.).
II.. generally, knowledge, “ἐπιστήμῃ σύ μου προὔχοις ἄν” S.OT1115; πάντ᾽ ἐπιστήμης πλέως full of knowledge in all things, Id.Ant.721, cf. Tr. 338; ἐκ τῆς ἐ. E.Fr.522.3; ἐ. δοξαστική, opp. ἀλήθεια, Pl.Sph.233c: pl., kinds of knowledge, “μυρίαι ἀνδρῶν ἐπιστᾶμαι πέλονται” B.9.38, cf. Pl.Smp.208a.
2.. scientific knowledge, science, opp. δόξα, Pl.R.477b sq., Hp.Lex4, Pl.Plt.301b, Arist.AP0.88b30, EN1139b18: coupled with ἐμπειρία and τέχνη, Pl.R.422c, cf. Ion536c, Arist.Metaph.981a2: pl., the sciences, freq. in Pl.（R.522c,al.), etc.
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 (19):
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 9.38
    • Lysias, Olympic Oration, 7
    • Plato, Republic, 422c
    • Plato, Republic, 477b
    • Plato, Republic, 522c
    • Plato, Sophist, 233c
    • Plato, Statesman, 301b
    • Plato, Philebus, 55d
    • Plato, Symposium, 208a
    • Plato, Gorgias, 511c
    • Plato, Ion, 536c
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 721
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1115
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1057
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 338
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.121
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.72
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.62
    • Hippocrates, Lex, 4
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