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θέσις
θέσις,
εως,
ἡ, (
τίθημι)
A. setting, placing,
ἐπέων θ. setting of words in verse, Pi. O. 3.8;
πλίνθων καὶ λίθων Pl. R. 333b,
cf. IG 7.3073.33
(Lebad.); θ. νόμων lawgiving,
X. Ath. 3.2,
Pl. Lg. 690d:
in pl., νόμων θέσεις D. 18.309,
Arist. Pol. 1289a22;
θ. ὀνόματος giving of a name, Pl. Cra. 390d;
ἐπί τινος application of word to object, Demetr. Eloc. 145;
θ. ἀγώνων institution of games, D.S. 4.53;
ordinance, disposition,
S. Ichn. 277
(only here in Trag.); setting forth in legal form, ἀσφαλειῶν POxy. 1027.12 (i A.D.).
2. Math., local position,
Arist. GC 322b33;
ἔχειν θ.
Id. APo. 88a34;
θ. ἔχειν πρὸς ἄλληλα to have a local relation, Id. Cat. 4b21,
cf. Pl. R. 586c;
τῇ θ. μέσον Arist. APr. 25b36:
Geom., θέσει δεδόσθαι or εἶναι,
to be given in position,
Archim. Sph.Cyl. 2.3,
Euc. Dat. 4,
Apollon.Perg. Con. 2.46,
al.; παρὰ θέσει parallel to a straight line given in position, [
Euc.]
Dat.Def. 15;
εἰς δύο θέσεις τὰς AB, AT to meet the two straight lines AB, AT given in position,
Hero Metr. 3.10;
κατὰ τὴν θ. τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς Arist. Ph. 208b23,
etc.; οὐ τῇ θ. διαφέροντα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ δυνάμει ib.22;
so in Music, of notes in a scale, κατὰ θέσιν,
opp. κατὰ δύναμιν,
Ptol. Harm. 2.5.
V. Philos., thesis, position,
assumed and requiring proof, Pl. R. 335a,
Arist. Top. 104b19,
APo. 72a15;
θέσιν διαφυλάττειν to maintain a thesis,
Id. EN 1096a2;
κινεῖν to controvert it, Plu. 2.687b, cf. 328a, etc.