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κατάστημα , ατος, τό, later κατάστεμα LXX 3 Ma.5.45:—
A.condition, state, not necessarily permanent:
1. bodily or mental condition, “τὸ εὐσταθὲς σαρκὸς κ.” Epicur.Fr.68, Metrod.Fr.5, cf. Diog.Oen.29, Asp. in EN143.22; “τὸ κατὰ φύσιν καὶ οἰκεῖον κ.” Dsc.Alex.Praef., cf. Sor. 1.36; τῆς ψυχῆς ib.39; “τὸ κατὰ μέθην κ.” Ath.2.38e; “κ. μανιῶδες” LXX l.c.
2. weather, Diocl.Fr.30, Ptol.Alm.3.1; τὸ θερινὸν κ. Ps.-Plu. Fluv.12; “κ. χειμέριον” Polyaen.5.12.3; “αἰθρίου ὄντος τοῦ κ.” Dsc.Praef. 6, cf. Cleom.2.1, Sabin. ap. Orib.9.15.1; direction of wind, “νοτίου τοῦ κ. ὄντος” Alex.Aphr.in Mete.47.2; time, season, “κ. νυκτερινόν” A.D.Synt. 198.27; “τὰ ἐνιαύσια κ.” Ptol.Tetr.93.
3. demeanour, behaviour, Ep. Tit.2.3, Porph.Abst.4.6; “τὸ σύνηθες κ.” Plu.Marc.23; “ἀτρεμαῖον κ.” J. AJ15.7.5; τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας, τῆς ἀρετῆς κ., Aristeas 210, 278; “τὸ μέσον κ.” Id.122.
4. political condition, constitution, “τὸ Λακωνικὸν κ.” Plb.6.50.2, cf. OGI669.3 (Egypt, i A.D.).
5. generally, state of the case, state of affairs, A.D.Pron.25.18.
6. Astrol., position of the heavens, Vett. Val.71.23.
7. physical constitution, τὸ κοσμικὸν κ., i.e. the four elements and four winds, Id.175.10; “ἐν στερεῷ τινι καὶ οὐσιώδει κ.” Dam.Pr.124; of the Intelligible World, ib.119; “ὑποστάσεως κατάστημα” Simp.in Ph.232.1.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 15.7.5
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    • Plutarch, Marcellus, 23
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