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πι^θα^ν-ός , ή, όν, (πείθω) of persons,
A.persuasive, plausible, esp. of popular speakers, “πιθανώτατος τοῖς πολλοῖς” Th.6.35 ; τῷ δήμῳ παρὰ πολὺ . . -ώτατος, of Cleon, Id.3.36, cf. 4.21; ἐν ὄχλῳ π. Pl.Grg.458e; “-ώτατος πάντων ἀνθρώπων” D.37.48; “-ώτεροι οἱ ἀπαίδευτοι τῶν πεπαιδευμένων ἐν τοῖς ὄχλοις” Arist.Rh.1395b27; “-ώτατοι οἱ ἐν τοῖς πάθεσιν” Id.Po.1455a30; “π. καὶ πανοῦργος” Plu.2.26a; “π. συνταγματάρχης” Luc. Bacch.2 : c. inf., “-ώτατοι λέγειν” Pl.Grg.479c; π. περιβαλεῖν τινα κακῷ apt at . . , E.Or.906; “πιθανώτατος στρατηγῆσαί τε καὶ προσαγαγέσθαι” App.Hisp.15, etc.: with a Prep., π. ἐς στρατηγίαν, ἐς ἐνέδρας, Id.Mith.51, Pun.108, etc.
2. of arguments, plausible, Ar.Th.464 (lyr.); “λέγων πιθανώτατ᾽” Id.Eq.629; λόγος, φωναὶ π., Pl.Phd.88d, R. 568c; λόγοι θαυμασίως ὡς π. D.35.16; τὸ περὶ λόγους π., = πιθανότης, Pl.Tht.178e : freq. in Arist.Rh., as 1356b26, 1403b20; “μόνον ἐφρόντισαν τοῦ π. τοῦ πρὸς αὑτούς” Id.Metaph.1000a10.
3. of manners, winning, plausible, “τὸ -ώτατον ἦθος” X.Mem.3.10.3; “τὸ π. ἰσχὺν τῆς ἀληθείας ἔχει μείζω” Men.622 codd. Stob.; “οὐ π. ἔσχεν ὄχλῳ τὸ ἦθος” Plu.Phoc.3.
4. of reports, etc., plausible, specious, credible, “λόγος πιθανώτατος” Hdt.1.214, cf. 2.123; “π. τινί” Pl.Lg.677a: c. inf., πιστεύεσθαι πιθανά ib.782d; πιθανόν [ἐστι] c. inf., it is probable that . . , Arist. Top.151a29.
5. of works of art, producing illusion, true to nature, X.Mem.3.10.7 (Comp.).
II. Pass., easy to persuade, credulous, A. Ag.485 (lyr.), Pl.Grg.493a.
2. obedient, docile, X.Cyr.2.2.10, Oec. 13.9 (Comp.).
III. Adv. -νῶς persuasively, plausibly, Ar.Th.268, Pl.Phdr.269c, al. : Comp. “-ώτερον” Id.Phd.63b, Grg.456c, Arist.EN 1096b5.
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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