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ἐπιχείρ-ησις , εως, ἡ,
A.an attempt upon, attack, Hdt.1.11, Th.2.11(pl.), 4.130 ; “ἡ ἐ. τινος ἐπί τινας” Act.Ap.12.1 cod. D ; τὴν ἐ. μὴ συντάχυνε the attempt, Hdt.3.71 ; “ἐκφέρειν τὴν ἐ.” Id.8.132 ; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαί τινος attempt a thing, Th.1.70 ; ἡ ὑμετέρα ἐ. the attempt upon you, ib.33 ; “ἡ ἐ. τοῦ σῶσαι” Pl.Alc.1.115b, cf. Lg. 631a.
II. dialectical reasoning (cf. ἐπιχείρημα II), Arist.Top.111b16, al.; “τὴν ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι κατὰ τὸν εἰκότα λόγον” Plb.12.7.4, cf. Phld.Sign. 29 (pl.), D.H.Amm.1.8, Plu.2.698a, S.E.P.2.192 (pl.); τὰ ἐφ᾽ ἑκάτερα τὴν ἐ. δεχόμενα things capable of proof or disproof, Hermog. Prog.5.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.11
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.71
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.132
    • Plato, Laws, 631a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.70
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.11
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.130
    • Polybius, Histories, 12.7.4
    • New Testament, Acts, 12.1
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