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χειρ-ισμός , ὁ,
A.handling, manipulation, treatment, esp. in surgery, Hp.Off.3, Paul.Aeg.6.122.
2. management, handling, τῆς τύχης by fortune, Plb.1.4.1; τῶν πραγμάτων of business, 5.26.4; “ὁ κατὰ μέρος χ.” 2.35.3; “ὁ χ. τῆς χάριτος” exercise, 31.28.11; “τῶν δογμάτων” execution, 6.12.3: abs., 1.28.4; of literary or rhetorical treatment, D.S.5.1, Phld.Rh.1.371S.
3. esp. of financial administration, Schwyzer631.11 (Milet., ii B.C.), Rev.Arch.1925(22).62 (Callatis), POxy.2125.3 (iii A.D.); department, PTeb.758.14 (ii B.C.), Wilcken Chr.432.13 (ii A.D.), 170.27 (iii A.D.).
4. pl., administrative posts, Vett.Val.39.12.
5. inventory, register of property, Wilcken Chr.71.11 (pl.), 91.14 (both ii A.D.).
b. guild, corporation, “τῶν κυβερνητῶν” PGiss.11.11 (ii A.D.), cf. PPetr.3p.206, al. (iii B.C., abbrev.).
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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    • Polybius, Histories, 1.28.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.4.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.35.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.28.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.26.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.12.3
    • Hippocrates, De officina medici, 3
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 5.1
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