Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ψυ

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II. metaph., winning of men's souls, persuasion, whence Rhetoric is called a ψυχαγωγία by Pl.Phdr.261a, cf. 271c, Com.Adesp.199, Phld.Rh.1.148S.; also of poetry, Id.Po.2.61, al.:generally, gratification, pastime, Plb.31.29.5, D.S.1.91, Aristeas 78, LXX 2 Ma.2.25, J.AJ15.7.7, Luc.Nigr.18; amusement, Sor.1.117 (pl.); opp. διδασκαλία, as the aim of a poet, Eratosth. ap. Str.1.1.10: pl., “μουσικαὶ ψ.” Phld.Mus.p.86K., cf. Aristid.Or.29(40).21.

III. (ψυχρός, ψῦχος) cooling treatment in acute fever, Philum. ap. Aët.5.78 (but, animi oblectamenta procurentur, in Lat. version): in heart disease, Paul.Aeg.3.34.

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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