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μετουσί-α , ἡ,
A.participation, partnership, communion, “μ. ἑορτῆς” Ar. Ra.446; “μετουσίαν δεῖ τῶν τρόπων τὸ σῶμ᾽ ἔχειν” Id.Th.152; σοὶ δὲ ἀρετῆς . . τίς μ.; D.18.128; πεδίων μ. enjoyment, means of using, X.Cyr.8.5.23; “τῶν δικαίων” D.15.29; “τὰς τῆς ἰσηγορίας καὶ τὰς τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἡμῶν μετουσίας ἀφαιρεῖσθαι” Id.21.124, cf. SIG426.24 (Teos, iii B.C.), IG12(3).1296.23 (Thera, ii B.C.), OGI229.77.
II. in Philos., = μέθεξις, participation in the universal by the particular, κατὰ μετοχήν τε καὶ μ. Polyxenus ap.Alex.Aphr. in Metaph.84.18; “ὁ μὲν αἰσχρός, ὁ δὲ αἰσχίων εἴδους τοῦ αὐτοῦ μετουσίᾳ” Plot.6.1.9, cf. 5.3.15, Procl.in Prm.p.557 S.
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 (6):
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 446
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 152
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 128
    • Demosthenes, On the Liberty of the Rhodians, 29
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 124
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.5.23
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