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κα^νον-ικός , ή, όν, (κανών)
A.of or belonging to a rule, “ἀρχή” A.D.Adv. 141.29; regular, according to rule, “διαφοραί” Gal.7.417; “ἀναλογία” Eust. 113.40, etc. Adv “-κῶς” Artem.1.1a.
2. connected with assessment (cf. “κανών” 11.6), PMasp.131.13 (vi A. D.).
II. ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the mathematical theory of music (Pythag., cf. Ptolemaisap.Porph.in Harm.p.207), based on the division of the monochord (cf. “κανών” 1.10), Gell.16.18; κ. θεωρία, τέχνη, Ph.1.22, Procl.in Euc.p.40F.
2. belonging to an astronomical table, Vett.Val.141.14; κανονικοί, οἱ, constructors of such tables, Cleom.2.6.
3. κανονικόν, τό, the equivalent of Logic in Epicurean philosophy, D.L.10.30: pl., τὰ κ. S.E.M.7.22; title of work by Antiochus, ib.201; ὁ κ. λόγος dub. in Phld.Ir. p.65W.
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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