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ὅρ-α_σις , εως, ἡ,
A.seeing, the act of sight, Demad.3, Arist.EN1174a14, Men.123, etc. ; distd. as the ἐνέργεια or act from ὄψις (the sense or faculty), Arist. de An.426a13, cf. 428a7; but, power of sight, SIG1141 (Thrace).
2. pl., eyes, “τὰς ὁ. ἐκκόπτειν” D.S.2.6, cf. D.H.8.45, Plu. 2.88d : metaph., as title of the daughter-goddess of the Sun, ὅρασιν αὑτοῦ (sc. τοῦ Ἡλίου) OGI56.56 (Canopus, iii B. C.).
II. a vision, LXXJl.2.28, Act.Ap.2.17 (pl.).
III. appearance, “ὅμοιος ὁράσει λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι” Apoc.4.3; “ὁ μεταμορφούμενος ἐν ταῖς ὁράσεσιν” PLeid.W.13.36.
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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