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μάθ-ησις , εως, ἡ, (μαθεῖν)
A.the act of learning, getting of knowledge, πεῖρά τοι μαθήσιος ἀρχά Alem.63; “μ. οὐ καλὴν ἐκμανθάνεις” S. Tr.450; ὧν μάθησιν ἄρνυμαι of which things I gain information, ib. 711; “μ. ἔχειν τινός” E.Supp.915; ὁ χρόνος μ. δίδωσι ib.419; “τὴν μ. ποιεῖσθαι περί τινος” Th.1.68; “ἡ περὶ τὸ ἓν μ.” Pl.R.525a; “μ. τέχνης” BGU1021.8 (iii A. D.): in pl., “νωθροὶ ἀπαντῶσι πρὸς τὰς μ.” Pl.Tht.144 b, cf. R.407b; μνῆμαί τε ἰσχυραὶ καὶ μ. ὀξεῖαι faculties of learning, Id.Lg.908c; “ὁπλομαχίας μ.” Ephor.54 J.
2. desire of learning, “ἀλλά σοι μ. οὐ πάρα” S.El.1032.
3. education, instruction, Hp.Jusj., Pl.Ap. 26a; “τοῦ φόβου τὴν μ. κρείττονα παρέξεσθαι” X.Cyr.3.3.53; “τὴν αὐλητικὴν ἤγαγον πρὸς τὰς μ.” Arist.Pol.1341a32.
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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