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κλίμα [ι^, cf. Scymn.521], ατος, τό, (κλίνω)
A.inclination, slope of ground, “ἑκάτερον τὸ κ. τῶν ὀρῶν” Plb.2.16.3; “ἡ πόλις τῷ ὅλῳ κ. τέτραπται πρὸς τὰς ἄρκτους” Id.7.6.1, etc.; scarp, Apollod.Poliorc.140.7.
II. = ἔγκλιμα 1.2, “τοῦ κόσμου” Hipparch.1.2.22, cf. Gem.16.12, Cleom.1.2.
2. terrestrial latitude, latitudes, region, “τὸ μεσημβρινὸν κ.” D.H.1.9; “τὸ ὑπάρκτιον κ.” Plu.Mar.11; τὰ πρὸς μεσημβρίαν κ. the southern regions, Plb.5.44.6, cf. 10.1.3, Str.1.1.10, AP9.97 (Alph.), Ath.12.523e, Vett.Val.6.14, etc.; “κ. οὐρανοῦ” Hdn.2.11.4.
3. direction, cardinal point, τὰ τέτταρα κ. (viz. N., S., E., W.) Str.10.2.12, Gp.1.11.1, cf. Isid.Etym.13.1.3; “τὸ νότιον κ. τοῦ κόσμου” Plu.2.365b; “κατὰ τὸ βόρειον κ.” Arist.Mu.392a3.
4. seven latitudinal strips in the “οἰκουμένη” on which the longest day ranged by halfhour intervals from 13 to 16 hours, Eratosth. ap. Scymn.113, Id. ap. Str.2.1.35, 2.5.34, Gem.5.58, 16.17, Posidon. ap. Procl.in Ti.3.125 D. (cf. eund. ap. Cleom.1.10), Id. ap. Str.6.2.1, Marin. ap. Ptol.Geog.1.15.8,1.17.1, Id.Alm.2.12, al., Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).37.
5. seven astrological zones corresponding to Nos. 3-6 of “κλίμα” 11.4, Nech.Fr.5, al., Vett. Val.22.33, al., Firmic.2.11.2.
III. metaph., inclination, propensity, Arr.Epict.2.15.20.
IV. fall, ἑπταετεῖ κλίματι by death at seven years of age, IG14.2431.
V. Gramm., inflected form, A.D. Adv.173.25.
VI. = ὑπόδημα, Hsch.; cf. κλείματα.
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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    • Strabo, Geography, 10.2.12
    • Strabo, Geography, 1.1.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.1.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.16.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.44.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 7.6.1
    • Strabo, Geography, 2.1.35
    • Strabo, Geography, 2.5.34
    • Strabo, Geography, 6.2.1
    • Plutarch, Caius Marius, 11
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.9
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