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λογιστ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.skilled or practised in calculating, Pl.Tht.145a, X.Mem.1.1.7; “οἱ φύσει λ.” Pl.R.526b; of a mathematician, AP11.267: Subst. ἡ -κή (with or without τέχνη), practical arithmetic, the art of arithmetic, opp. ἀριθμητική (the science of number), Pl.Grg. 450d, 451b, R.525a, al.; so τὸ -“κόν” Id.Chrm.174b; ἡ λ., opp. γεωμετρία, Archyt.4.
II. endued with reason, rational, “ζῷα” Arist. de An. 434a7; [τὸ] λ. [μόριον τῆς ψυχῆς] ib.432a25; λ. ὄρεξις, opp. ἄλογος, Id.Rh.1369a2; τὸ λ. (sc. τῆς ψυχῆς) the reasoning faculty, Pl.R.439d, cf. Arist.Top.128b38; = τὸ βουλευτικόν, Id.EN1139a12.
2. using one's reason, reasonable, X.HG5.2.28, Men.Epit.541.
III. -κόν, τό, expenses of the λογιστεία, Inscr.Délos395.13, 399 A96 (ii B. C.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Plato, Republic, 439d
    • Plato, Republic, 525a
    • Plato, Republic, 526b
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 145a
    • Plato, Charmides, 174b
    • Plato, Gorgias, 450d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 451b
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.2.28
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.1.7
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