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ἀντι-ληπτικός , ή, όν, Dor. ἀντί-λα_πτ- ,
A.able to apprehend, “λόγων” Ti.Locr.100c; “χρωμάτων” Phld.Herc.19.18; “δύναμις ἀ. πληγῆς ἀέρος” Plu.2.98b; ἀ. δύναμις, of the soul, Aristo Stoic.1.86, cf. Stoic.2.230; assisting a scion to unite, “γλισχρότης” Thphr.CP1.6.4; of the hand, prehensile, Gal.UP2.6. Adv. -κῶς, ἔχειν to be aware, apprehend, Hierocl.p.19A.
2. taking hold of, i.e. impressing itself upon the senses, “φωνή” Thphr.Fr.89.3, cf. Cass.Pr.35 (Comp.); “τὸ ἀ.” Iamb.Comm.Math.8.
II. able to check, Pl.Def.416a.
2. abs., self-controlled, Ptol.Tetr188.
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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