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κατηγορ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.accusation, Hdt.6.50, etc.; opp. αἰτία (expostulation), Th.1.69; opp. ἔπαινος, ib.84; opp. “ἀπολογία” Arist.Rh.1358b11; “τὴν κ. ποιεῖσθαι” Antipho 6.10, And.1.6; “ὡς ὑβρίζοντος κ. ἐποιοῦντο” X.An.5.8.1; κ. ἐγένοντο πολλαὶ τῶν Ἀθηναίων charges were made against . . , Id.HG2.1.31; “κατηγορίαι κατά τινος γεγόνασιν” Isoc.5.147; εἰ . . ἐπὶ τοῖς πεπραγμένοις κατηγορίας ἔχω I am liable to accusation, D.18.240.
II. in Logic, predication, Arist.Metaph.1007a35, etc.: pl., Id.APo.84a1; esp. affirmative predication, opp. στέρησις, Id.APr.52a15; “ἄπορον ἐν κ.” Stoic.2.93.
2. predicate, Arist.Metaph.1004a29, 1028a28, al., Epicur.Ep.1p.23U., etc.
3. more freq., category, head of predicables, Arist.Top.103b20 (ten), APo.83b16, Ph.225b5 (eight), Metaph.1068a8 (seven), cf.EN 1096a29.
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 (8):
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 6
    • Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 10
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 240
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.50
    • Isocrates, To Philip, 147
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.8.1
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.1.31
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.69
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