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ἑρμην-εία , ἡ, (ἑρμηνεύω)
A.interpretation, explanation, Pl.R.524b (pl.), Tht.209a, Epicur.Nat.28.1; esp. of thoughts by words, expression, Diog.Apoll.1,X.Mem.4.3.12; “χρῆσθαι τῇ γλώσσῃ πρὸς ἑρμηνείαν” Arist.PA660a35, cf. de An.420b19, Resp.476a19, Hermog. Inv.1.1, etc.; mediation, Pl.Epin.984e; style, D.H.Comp.1,al., Demetr.Eloc. 1, etc.; an expression, ἡ ἀκόλουθος ἑ. Sch.Pi.O.3.1 : also in pl., αἱ Πλατωνικαὶ ἑ. Plato's gifts of style, D.H.Pomp.1.2.
2. in Music, expression, Plu.2.1138a, 1144d.
3. translation, Aristeas 3, Ph.2.141; “ἑ. τῶν Π̔ωμαϊκῶν” POxy.1201.12 (iii A.D.); ἑ. ἔχειν to mean when translated, Ph.1.232, Porph.Plot.17.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Plato, Republic, 524b
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 209a
    • Plato, Epinomis, 984e
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.3.12
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, 1.2
    • Demetrius of Phaleron (attributed author), Libro de Elocutione, 1
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