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σχημα^τ-ισμός , ,
A.configuration, οἱ κατὰ μῆνα ς. [τῆς σελήνης] Arist.Cael.297b26, cf. Gem.9.11, Ptol.Tetr.1, Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.11; “τοῦ στόματοςArist.Aud.800a23, cf. Phld.Mus.p.73 K.; “τῆς φλογόςThphr.Ign.54.
2. bearing, attitude, ὅλον τὸν τοῦ σώματος ς. Pl.R.425b, cf. Zeno Stoic.1.58 (pl.), Hipparch.1.4.10, Plu.Dem.9, Num.8, Dio13; σχηματισμοὶ προσώπου expressions assumed by . . , D.H.Dem.54; “τοῦ τε προσώπου καὶ τῶν χειρῶνPlu.2.1047a.
3. in bad sense, assumption of manner, “σχηματισμοῦ καὶ φρονήματος κενοῦ . . ἐμπιπλάμενοςPl.R.494d: generally, assumption of what does not belong to one, pretence, Plu.Nic.3, Arat.49.
II. σχῆμα, shape, even of something immutable, as an atom, Epicur.Ep.1p.15U. (pl.), al.
3. in Tactics, formation, Ascl.Tact.12.1 (pl.).
III. in language, ποιητικὸς ς. the poetical formation (πελειάς = Πλειάς), Ath.11.490d; πληθυντικὸς ς. a plural form, Dam.Pr.337.
2. figure in a dance, Plot.4.4.33.
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    • Plato, Republic, 425b
    • Plato, Republic, 494d
    • Plutarch, Demosthenes, 9
    • Plutarch, Nicias, 3
    • Plutarch, Aratus, 49
    • Plutarch, Dion, 13
    • Plutarch, Numa, 8
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 54
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 1
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