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πρόσ-ληψις , εως, ἡ,
A.taking in addition, “λόγου” Pl.Tht.210a, cf. Hermog.Id.1.11; ἀορίστου ib.2.6, Aristid.Rh.1pp.473,534S.; τοῦ ἄρθρου, τοῦ ι_, A.D.Synt.170.3, Pron.87.13.
2. acquisition, δυνάμεως, τοῦ εὐδαίμονος, J.AJ17.1.2, 18.9.6; “μείζονος τιμῆς” Anon.Trop.23.
b. rise in rank by acquisition of catoecic land, “προσλήψεως στέφανος” PTeb.61 (b).254 (ii B.C.).
3. enrolment, “εἰς τὸ ταγματικόν” PTheb.Bank8.4 (ii B.C.).
II. additional assumption, “διὰ προσλήψεως” Arist.APr.58b9 (dub.); “κατὰ πρόσληψιν” Thphr. ap. Alex.Aphr. in APr.378.14, Phlp. in APr.416.24; “ἐνθύμημα γίνεται . . κατὰ πρόσληψιν” Aps.Rh.p.288 H.: specifically, π., ἡ, minor premiss, Crinis Stoic.3.269, Plu.2.387c, A.D.Conj.250.21, S.E. P.2.149, D.L.7.82; “ἐν προσλήψει” A.D.Conj.250.18.
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 (3):
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 17.1.2
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 18.9.6
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 210a
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