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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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.2. Math., ratio, proportion (ὁ κατ᾽ ἀνάλογον λ., λ. τῆς ἀναλογίας,
......Theo Sm.p.73 H.), Pythag. 2; “ἰσότης λόγων” Arist.EN113a31;
......“λ. ἐστὶ δύο μεγεθῶν ἡ κατὰ πηλικότητα ποιὰ σχέσις” Euc.5
......Def.3; “τῶν ἁρμονιῶν τοὺς λ.” Arist.Metaph.985b32, cf.
......1092b14; λόγοι ἀριθμῶν numerical ratios, Aristox.Harm.p.32
......M.; τοὺς φθόγγους ἀναγκαῖον ἐν ἀριθμοῦ λ. λέγεσθαι πρὸς
......ἀλλήλους
to be expressed in numerical ratios, Euc. Sect.Can.
......Proëm.: in Metre, ratio between arsis and thesis, by which the
......rhythm is defined, Aristox.Harm.p.34 M.; “ἐὰν ᾖ ἰσχυροτέρα τοῦ
......αἰσθητηρίου ἡ κίνησις, λύεται ὁ λ.
” Arist.de An. 424a31; ἀνὰ
......λόγον
analogically, Archyt.2; ἀνὰ λ. μερισθεῖσα [ἡ ψυχή]
......proportionally, Pl. Ti.37a; so “κατὰ λ.” Men.319.6; πρὸς λόγον
......in proportion, Plb.6.30.3, 9.15.3 (but πρὸς λόγον ἐπὶ στενὸν
......συνάγεται
narrows uniformly, Sor. 1.9, cf. Diocl.Fr.171); “ἐπὶ
......λόγον
” IG5(1).1428 (Messene).
3. Gramm., analogy, rule, τῷ λ. τῶν μετοχικῶν, τῆς συγκοπῆς,
......by the rule of the participles, of syncope, Choerob. in Theod.1.75
......Gaisf., 1.377 H.; “εἰπέ μοι τὸν λ. τοῦ Αἴας Αἴαντος, τουτέστι τὸν
......κανόνα
” An.Ox. 4.328.









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