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τίμ-ησις [τι_], εως, ἡ,
A.holding valuable, honouring, esteeming, Pl. Lg.696d, 728e.
II. estimation or valuation of property or merchandise, PRev.Laws 29.12, al. (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.12.1, al. (iii B.C.), Plb.31.28.3: pl., SIG364.66 (Ephesus, iii B.C.); τὰς τ. προσεξεπλήρωσεν, = Lat. census explevit, Mon.Anc.Gr.19.10: Dor. τίμα_σις , “καρπῶ” Docum.ant.dell' Africa Italiana 1.88 (Cyrene, iv B.C.).
2. assessment of damages, Pl.Lg.878e; τ. ποιεῖν τινι (opp. a capital charge) Antipho 5.10; ἀπαντᾶν εἰς τὴν τ. Aeschin.3.198, cf. D.53.18: Dor. τίμα_σις Foed.Delph.Pell.1A 9.
3. rating or assessment for political purposes, Arist.Pol.1308b2 (pl.); “ἀπὸ τιμήσεως πολίτευμα” D.S.18.18; “τοὺς πολίτας συντάξαι . . κατὰ τιμήσεις” Plot.6.3.1; of the Roman census, D.H.1.74: pl., Str.3.5.3: pl. of one census, Plu. Caes.55.
4. payment, PSI4.327.10 (iii B.C.).
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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    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 198
    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 10
    • Demosthenes, Against Nicostratus, 18
    • Plato, Laws, 728e
    • Plato, Laws, 696d
    • Plato, Laws, 878e
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.28.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 3.5.3
    • Plutarch, Caesar, 55
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 18.18
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.74
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