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κατάληψις , εως, ἡ,
A.seizing, οὐκέτι ἐν καταλήψει ἐφαίνετο to be within one's grasp, Th.3.33.
2. seizing, assaulting, Ar.Nu.318.
3. taking possession, occupation, “τῆς βασιλείας” Isoc.9.69; “Χωρίων” Pl. Grg.455c, R.526d (pl.); “ἱεροῦ” D.19.21; καταλήψεις πολέμου prob. f.l. for πολέων, App.BC4.14.
4. Philos., direct apprehension of an object by the mind, Zeno Stoic.1.20, Luc.Par.4, al.; “τῶν μετεώρων” Philostr.Her.10.9; ἀκριβὴς κ. certainty, Herod.Med. ap. Aët.9.37: pl., perceptions, Stoic.2.30, Luc.Herm.81, etc.; introduced into Latin by Cicero, Plu.Cic.40.
II. holding, grip, with the fingers, bandages, or instruments, Hp.Off.9; τὰς -λήψιας ποιεῖσθαι ibid., cf. Art.11 (in pl. also = ligatures, Medic.8); ο ὕπνος τοῦ . . αἰσθητηρίου κ. compression, Arist.Somn.Vig.458a29.
2. stoppage, “οὔρων” Gal.17 (1).423; “σπέρματος” Ruf. ap. Orib.6.38.4; holding, πνεύματος, Gal.6.152.
3. in Music, stopping of the strings of an instrument, Sch. Ar.Nu.317.
III. later, catalepsy, Gal.8.485, al.
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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