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στοχ-ασμός , ὁ,
A.guessing, μελέτης ς. the power of guessing which comes from practice. Pl.Phlb.56a; στοχασμῷ λαμβάνων, ς. πινομένη, 'quantum sufficit', Dsc.1.48, Eup.2.21; “τὸν ς. ἀεὶ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐξακριβοῦν” Gal.6.129; as a technical term in Rhet., Phld.Rh.1.167S., al.; esp. use of circumstantial evidence, Hermog.Stat.2,3.
2. regard for, τινος Plu.2.981b; τοῦ πρέποντος ib.616b; attention to, “τῶν εἰρημένων ἀστέρων” Ph.1.28.
II. fixing of a hunting-net, Poll.5.36.
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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