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μετά-ληψις , εως, ἡ,
A.participation, Pl.Prm.131a; λόγων in philosophy, Id.R.539d; “γένεσις μ. οὐσίας” Id.Def.411a; γίνεσθαι κατὰ τὴν μ. [τοῦ εἴδους] Arist.GC335b14, cf. Metaph.1072b20, etc.; partaking of food, 1 Ep.Ti.4.3.
2. concurrence, POxy.1273.39 (iii A. D.), etc.
3. Gramm., τὸ "λέγων" μ. ἐνεστῶτος καὶ παρατατικοῦ is shared by . . , A.D.Adv.124.1.
II. alternation, “τῶν λόγων” Pl.Tht.173b; “αἱ μ. τοῦ σχήματος” Plb.9.20.2; “ἐκ μεταλήψεως” Id.2.33.4.
2. succession, “μ. τῆς ἀρχῆς” Id.31.13.3.
3. taking one thing instead of another, “ἡ ἀντὶ τοῦ μείζονος ἐλάττονος μ.” Arist.Rh.1369b25.
4. Rhet., use of one word for another, as of Ἥφαιστος for πῦρ, Quint.8.6.37, Trypho Trop.5, etc.; transference of meaning, Eust.79.12.
5. objection, counterplea, Sch.Pl.Euthphr.4d; esp. concurrence coupled with objection, Syrian. in Hermog.2.153 R., Corn. Rh.p.391 H.
6. συλλογισμοὶ κατὰ μετάληψιν hypothetical syllogisms involving the substitution of a proposition for the original thesis, Arist.APr.45b17; cf. μεταλαμβάνω VI.
7. Gramm., change of construction, A.D.Synt.210.3; change in dialect, ib.335.1; change of name, Demetr.Lac.Herc.1014.60.
8. translation, rendering, Eust. ad D.P.180; ἡ εἰς τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν μ. Id.ib.294.
9. transference, “αἱ ἐς νεφροὺς καὶ κύστιας -λήψιες” Aret.SD1.9.
10. κατὰ μετάληψιν κατατεῖναι, of reflex tension over a pulley (cf. “μεταληπτικός” 11), Heliod. ap. Orib.48.9.25.
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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    • Plato, Republic, 539d
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    • Plato, Theaetetus, 173b
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    • Polybius, Histories, 31.13.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 9.20.2
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.9
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