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λογ-ισμός , ὁ,
A.counting, calculation, “τῶν ἡμερῶν” Th.4.122; “τυγχάνειν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς λ.” Id.3.20; “ἐκ τοιοῦδε λ. ἔξεστί τῳ σκοπεῖν” Id.5.68; “ἐν λ. ἁμαρτάνειν” Pl.R.340d; “ἀριθμὸς καὶ λ.” Id.Phdr.274c; “ἐπὶ λογισμὸν ἐλθόντες” Id.Euthphr.7b; “καθέζεσθαι ἐπὶ τοὺς λ.” Aeschin.3.59: in pl., numbers, arithmetic, “λογισμοὺς μανθάνειν” X.Mem.4.7.8; “λογισμούς τε καὶ ἀστρονομίαν καὶ γεωμετρίαν . . διδάσκειν” Pl.Prt.318e, cf. R.510c, al.
2. account, reckoning, Lys.32.19, D.18.113, etc.; λ. λαμβάνειν hold an audit, Arist.Pol.1322b9.
II. without reference to number, calculation, reasoning, “τοῦ ξυμφέροντος λογισμῷ” Th.2.40; “καθιστάναι τινὰς ἐς λ.” Id.6.34; “λογισμῷ ἐλάχιστα χρώμενοι” Id.2.11; “ἐνδέχεταί τι λογισμόν” Id.4.92; λ. αὐτοκράτορι (v. “αὐτοκράτωρ” 1.4) ib.108; “οὐ λογισμῷ δόντες τοὺς κινδύνους” Lys.2.23; “λογισμὸν περί τινος ἔχειν” Pl. Lg.805a; “ὅσον ἦν ἀνθρωπίνῳ λ. δυνατόν” D.18.300, cf. 193; “τοῖς λ. τοῖς ἰδίοις πταίων ἀεί” Men.380; “μετὰ λογισμοῦ πάντα πράττουσίν τινος” Id.617, cf. Philem.90.10, etc.; personified, opp. Θυμός, Cleanth.Stoic. 1.129.
2. reason, argument, X.HG3.4.27, Pl.Ti.34a.
III. reasoning power, [Epich.] 257.1, Democr. 187, X.Mem.4.3.11, Epicur. Sent.16, al.: freq. in Arist., τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος [ζῇ] “καὶ τέχνῃ καὶ λογισμοῖς” Metaph.980b28, cf. de An.415a8, al.—Only in Prose and Com.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 59
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 113
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