Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, μάθ-ημα

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A.that which is learnt, lesson, “τὰ παθήματα μαθήματα” Hdt.1.207; “μ. μαθεῖν” S.Ph.918; μ. τινός or περί τι, Pl.Smp.211 c, R.525d; “προσπορεύεται πρὸς τὰ λοιπὰ μ.” PCair.Zen.60.7 (iii B. C.); “ἀφεῖσθαι τοὺς παῖδας ἀπὸ τῶν μ.” SIG577.77 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.), cf. 578.28 (Teos, ii B. C.), al.

2. learning, knowledge, Ar.Nu.1231, Av.380, Th.2.39, PSI1.94.9 (ii A. D.), etc.; οἱ καθιστάμενοι ἐπὶ τῶν μ. educational authorities, SIG578.66 (Teos, ii B. C.); τὸ μ. τὸ περὶ τὰς τάξεις the science of tactics, Pl.La.182b: freq. in pl., Isoc.12.27, etc.; “μαθημάτων φρόντιζε μᾶλλον χρημάτων: τὰ γὰρ μαθήματ᾽ εὐπορεῖ τὰ χρήματα” Philem. 232.

3. esp. the mathematical sciences, Archyt.1,3 tit.; τρία μ., i. e. arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy, acc. to Pl.Lg.817e, cf. Phld. Ind.Sto.66; later τὰ τέσσαρα μ. （ἁρμονική being added) Theol.Ar.17; Arist. distd. pure from mixed “μ., τὰ φυσικώτερα τῶν μ., οἷον ὀπτικὴ καὶ ἁρμονικὴ καὶ ἀστρονομία” Ph. 194a8; “ἡ ἐν τοῖς μ. ἁρμονική” Metaph.997b21; “τὰ μ. περὶ τὰ εἴδη ἐστίν” APo.79a7; οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν μ. mathematicians, Cleom.1.8.

4. astrology, AP7.687 (Pall.).

5. creed, Cod.Just.1.1.7.11, al.

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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