A.serving as organs or instruments, instrumental, esp. of the several parts of the body, Arist.PA646b26: distd. from τὰ κινητικά, Id.GA742b10 ; “τὰ ὀ. μέρη” Id.EN1110a16, cf. PA661b29, GA739b14, al. ; αἱ ὀ. [ἀρεταί], of a slave, Id.Pol.1259b23 ; “ὀ. καὶ μηχανικαὶ κατασκευαί” Plu.2.718f; esp. of war-engines, “ἡ ὀ. βία” D.S.17.43 ; “ὀ. κατασκευαί” Onos.42.3 : metaph., ὁ ὀ. εἰς πλήθη λόγος speech which is brought to bear on the mob, Plu.Cat.Mi.4 ; of musicians, practical, opp. λογικοί (theoretical), Id.2.657e ; “ἐποιεῖτο ἀκροάσεις λογικάς τε καὶ ὀ.” Supp.Epigr.2.184.6 (Tanagra, ii B.C.) ; so of surgeons, “τῶν ὀ. οἱ διασημότεροι” PMed.Lond.155.2.13 ; ἡ ὀ. (sc. τέχνη) Plu.Marc.14 ; but ὀργανικός, = λογικός, logical, Elias in Porph.115.17. Adv. “-κῶς” by way of instruments, Arist.EN1099b28; “-κώτερον” making more use of instruments, Simp.in Cael.504.33 ; “τὸ κινοῦν ὀ.” Arist.de An.433b21.
ὀργα^ν-ικός , ή, όν,
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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