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Ἑλλην-ισμός , ὁ,
A.imitation of the Greeks, Hellenism, LXX 2 Ma.4.13.
II. use of a pure Greek style and idiom, as an ἀρετὴ λόγου, Diog.Bab.Stoic.3.214, cf. Phld.Po.2.18, A.D.Pron.71.25, S.E.M.1.98; ἔνιοι λέγουσιν Ἑ. εἶναι τὸν ποιητήν (i.e. Homer), Lex.Vind.311; περὶ Ἑλληνισμοῦ, title of works by Seleucus, Ath.9.367a; by Ptolemy of Ascalon, Philoxenus and Tryphon, Suid.; κανόνες Ἑλληνισμοῦ, title of work by Irenaeus, Id.
2. use of the κοινή, opp. to strict Atticism, POxy.1012Fr.17.
III. paganism, Jul.Ep.84a; “ἡ τοῦ Ἑ. δυσσέβεια” Cod.Just.1.11.9.1.
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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