A.of or for speaking or speech, μέρη λ. the organs of speech, Plu.Cor.38: λογική, ἡ, speech, opp. μουσική, D.H. Comp. 11; “λ. φαντασία” expressed in speech, Stoic.2.61.
2. of or in eloquence, “ἀγῶνες” Philostr.VS1.22.1; “ἀκροάσεις λ. καὶ ὀργανικαί” Supp.Epigr.2.184.6 (Tanagra, ii B.C.).
3. suited for prose, “ὁ ἡρῷος σεμνὸς καὶ οὐ λ.” Demetr.Eloc.42; τὸ λ., opp. τὸ μεγαλοπρεπές, ib.41; of persons, writing in prose, D.L.5.85; “ἐγκώμιον λ.” in prose, IG9(2).531.43 (Thess.).
II. possessed of reason, intellectual, “μέρος” Ti.Locr.99e, al.; “τὸ λ. ζῷον” Chrysipp.Stoic.3.95; ἀρεταὶ λ., = διανοητικαί, opp. ἠθικαί, Arist.EN1108b9.
2. dialectical, argumentative, οἱ λ. διάλογοι of Plato, such as the Theaetetus and Cratylus, D.L.3.58; in Arist. usu. like διαλεκτικός, λ. συλλογισμός APo.93a15, cf. Top.162b27; “διὰ λογικωτέρων καὶ ἀκριβεστέρων λόγων” more abstract, Metaph. 1080a10; λ. δυσχέρειαι ib.1005b22; “λ. ἀπόδειξις” GA747b28; but also, logical, λ. συλλογισμοί, opp. ῥητορικοί, Rh.1355a13. Adv. -“κῶς” dialectically, Metaph. 1029b13, APo.84a7, 88a19; “φυσικῶς καὶ λ.” GC316a11: Comp. -ώτερον Cael.275b12.
