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ἀπό-λαυσις , εως, ἡ,
A.act of enjoying, fruition, Th.2.38, OGI669.8 (Egypt, i A. D.); “ἀ. ἀνεύφραντος” Secund.Sent.9.
II. result of enjoying, pleasure, “αἱ ἀ. αἱ σωματικαί” Arist.Pol.1314b28, cf. EN 1148a5, etc.; ὁ κατ᾽ ἀπόλαυσιν βίος a life of pleasure, Id.Top.102b17.
2. c. gen., aduantage got from a thing, “σίτων καὶ ποτῶν” X.Mem.2.1.33, cf. Hp.VM11; “ἀγαθῶν” Isoc.1.27; ἀπόλαυσιν εἰκοῦς (acc. abs.) as a reward for your resemblance, E.Hel.77, cf. HF1370; “ἀ. ἑαυτῶν ἔχειν” Pl.Ti.83a; ἀ. ἀδικημάτων advantage, fruit of them, Luc.Tyr.5.
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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