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κέν-ωσις , εως, ἡ,
A.emptying, depletion, οὐχὶ πεῖνα καὶ δίψα . . κενώσεις τινές εἰσι . . ; Pl.R.585b, cf. Phlb.35b, BGU904.13 (ii A.D.): —poet. κενέωσις , “πόντου κ. ἀνὰ πέδον” Pi.Fr.107.12: metaph., “κένωσις βίου” Vett.Val.190.30; “κ. τοῦ γιγνώσκειν” Iamb.Comm.Math.11.
2. Medic., evacuation, Hp.Aph.2.8, interpol.in Dsc.2.50; κ. τῶν οἰκείων, opp. κάθαρσις τῶν ἀλλοτρίων, Gal.18(2).134.
b. depletion, low diet, opp. πλήρωσις, Hp.VM9, cf. Art.49; κ. σίτου ib.50.
3. of the moon, waning, opp. πλήρωσις, Epicur.Ep.2p.40U.
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, Republic, 585b
    • Plato, Philebus, 35b
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 49
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 50
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 2.8
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 9
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