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ἰσο-στάσιος [α^], ον,
A.equal in weight, χρυσός, χρυσίον, Str.4.4.5, Plu.CG17; equivalent or adequate, τινι Hp.Ep.16, Luc.DMort.10.5, D.C.44.40, Max.Tyr.6.6; τίς σοι ἰ. νεκρός; Polem.Call.46, cf. 31; ἆρα οὖν ἰ. τῷ Κρόνῳ ὁ Ζεύς; Dam.Pr.91: ἰσοστάσιον, τό, prob. name of a ἑταίρα, title of a play by Alexis.
2. equally poised, in equilibrium, metaph., Dam.Pr.122. Adv. “-ίως” Poll.8.11: neut. pl. as Adv., “βαίνειν” Ph.1.462.
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 (3):
    • Strabo, Geography, 4.4.5
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 10.5
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 44.40
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