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ἠρεμ-έω , hyperdor. ἀρεμ- Ti.Locr.95d:—
A.to be still, keep quiet, be at rest, opp. κινέομαι, Hp.Fract.6, Arist.Ph.238b23,al., Aristox.Harm. p.12 M.; τὸ ἠρεμοῦν, opp. τὸ κινούμενον, Pythag. ap. Arist.Metaph. 986a24; of the object of knowledge, Pl.Phd.96b, Arist.APo.100a6; “ἐν τοῖς νόμοις ἠρεμοῦντες διαμένειν” X.Ages.7.3; acquiesce in a verdict, Pl.Lg.956d; “ἠ. τῇ διανοίᾳ” Arr.Epict.2.21.22: acc. to Stoics, only of animate beings, Stoic.2.161.
2. to be unmoved, remain fixed, “μόνος οὗτος ἠ. ὁ λόγος” Pl.Grg.527b, cf. Lg.891a.
3. c. inf., refrain from doing . . , Luc.Jud.Voc.4 (s.v.l.).
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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    • Plato, Laws, 891a
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    • Xenophon, Agesilaus, 7.3
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