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σκέψις , εως, ἡ, (σκέπτομαι)
A.viewing, perception by the senses, ἡ διὰ τῶν ὀμμάτων ς. Pl.Phd.83a; observation of auguries, Hdn.8.3.7.
II. examination, speculation, consideration, “τὸ εὕρημα πολλῆς σκέψιος” Hp. VM4, cf. Pl.Alc.1.130d; βραχείας ς. Id.Tht.201a; ϝέμειν ς. take thought of a thing, v.l. in E.Hipp.1323; ἐνθεὶς τῇ τέχνῃ ς. Ar.Ra. 974; “ς. ποιεῖσθαι” Pl.Phdr.237d; “ς. προβέβληκας” Id.Phlb.65d; “ς. λόγων” Id.R.336e; ς. περί τινος inquiry into, speculation on a thing, Id.Grg.487e, etc.; “περί τι” Id.Lg.636d; “ἐπὶ σκέψιν τινὸς ἐλθεῖν” X. Oec.6.13.
2. speculation, inquiry, “ταῦτα ἐξωτερικωτέρας ἐστὶ σκέψεως” Arist.Pol.1254a34; ἔξω τῆς νῦν ς. Id.Ph.228a20; οὐκ οἰκεῖα τῆς παρούσης ς. Id.EN1155b9, etc.
3. hesitation, doubt, esp. of the Sceptic or Pyrthonic philosophers, AP7.576 (Jul.); the Sceptic philosophy, S.E.P.1.5; οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς ς. the Sceptics, ib.229.
4. in politics, resolution, decree, “συνεδρίον” Hdn.4.3.9, cf. Poll.6.178.
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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