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κράτησις [α^], εως, ἡ,
A.might, power, dominion, LXX Wi.6.3, Man. ap.J.Ap.1.26.
2. ἡ Καίσαρος κ. (sc. Αἰγύπτου), an era in Egypt (viz. the capture of Alexandria, 30 B.C.), BGU174 (i A.D.), PFay.89.2 (i A.D.), etc.
3. accession of an Emperor, BGU362iv6, al. (iii A.D.).
4. prevalence, predominance, “ἡ τῆς ἀπλανοῦς κ.” Simp.in Cael. 475.30, 476.5.
II. possession, “βίου κ.” BMus.Inscr.918 (Halic.); “κ. τοῦ ἐν ὕλῃ σκοτεινοῦ” Plot.1.6.3.
2. in Law, title to possession, Mitteis Chr.31 iii 32 (ii B.C.); “κ. καὶ κυρεία” BGU1187.7, etc.
3. Medic., retention, κ. ἐπίμονος σπέρματος (i.e. conception) Sor.1.43; opp. ἔκκρισις, Gal.8.440.
b. κ. τῶν ὑδάτων, i.e. drought, Cat.Cod. Astr.7.184.
4. holding firm, steadying, Gal.18(2).826, Olymp. in Mete.96.11.
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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