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τετρα^γων-ίζω ,
A.make square, square, of lines or numbers, Pl.R.527a, Arist. Metaph.996b21; ὅσαι γραμμαὶ τὸν ἰσόπλευρον . . ἀριθμὸν τετραγωνίζουσι all lines which form an equilateral number as their square, Pl. Tht.148a; τ. τὸν κύκλον square the circle, Arist.SE171b16:—Pass., Id.APr.69a31.
2. Astrol., to be in quartile aspect, Ptol.Tetr. 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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    • Plato, Republic, 527a
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 148a
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 34
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