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ζήτ-ημα , ατος, τό,
A.that which is sought, Hp.VM3; οὐ ῥάδιον ζ. a thing not easy to find, of Pentheus' mutilated limbs, E.Ba.1139; δυσνοούμενον ζ., of God, Secund.Sent.3.
II. inquiry, question, S.OT278, Act.Ap.15.2,al.; esp. of a philosophic nature, τὸ περὶ νόμους ζ. Pl.Lg.631a; τὰ περὶ φύσεως ζ. ib.891c; “ποιητικῶν ζ. λύσεις” Metrod.Herc.831.13; also τοῦτ᾽ . . οὗ τυγχάνει ζ. Pl.Cra.421a; “ἐκεῖνό γ᾽ ἦν τὸ ζ. πρῶτον, πότερον . .” Id.Sph.221c; search, “σῶμα μυρίοις ζητήμασιν εὑρών” E.Ba.1218; μητρός after her, Id.Ion1352.
2. official or judicial inquiry, POxy.97.14 (ii A.D.).
III. in pl., claims, PRyl.117.14 (iii A.D.); subjects of dispute, SIG785.8 (i A.D.), Act.Ap.25.19.
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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