A.falling, fall, “κύβων” Pl.R.604c, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.2.282 (pl.); “κεραυνῶν” Arist.Mete.339a3, Plu.2.1005b (pl.); “Φαέθοντος” Plb.2.16.13: metaph., π. τῆς ψυχῆς, opp. ἔπαρσις, Zeno Stoic.1.51 (pl.): abs., calamity, “ἐν καιρῷ πτώσεως” LXX Si.3.31, cf. Ex.30.12; “πτώσεις ἀνθρώπων” Orph.Fr.251, al.; death, Lyd.Ost.12, 14,20.
II. Gramm., mode or modification of a word, Arist.Po. 1457a18, al.; applied to cases, including nom., ib.20, Int.16b1: to genders, Id.SE173b27: to Sup. of Adjs., Id.Top.136b30: to Advbs., ib.15, Rh.1397a20: to Adjs. derived fr. nouns, e.g. χαλκοῦς, ib.1410a32: to tenses (exc. the pres.), Id.Int.16b17: so by the Stoics to variety of flexion, Stoic.3.263, but most freq. to cases of the Noun, περὶ τῶν πέντε π., title of work by Chrysipp., cf. D.T.634.16, etc.; κατὰ μίαν πτῶσιν indeclinable, A.D.Adv.165.10.
III. in the Logic of Arist., mood of syllogisms, APr.42b30.
b. arrangement of terms in a syllogism, Id.APo.94a12.
