7. reason, law exhibited in the world-process, κατὰ λόγον by law,
.....“κόσμῳ πάντα καὶ κατὰ λ. ἔχοντα” Pl.R.500c; κατ τὸν <αὐτὸν
.....αὖ> λ. by the same law, Epich.170.18; “ψυχῆς τὸ πᾶν τόδε
.....διοικούσης κατὰ λ.” Plot.2.3.13; esp. in Stoic Philos., the divine
.....order, “τὸν τοῦ παντὸς λ. ὃν ἔνιοι εἱμαρμένην καλοῦσιν” Zeno
.....Stoic.1.24; τὸ ποιοῦν τὸν ἐν [τῇ ὕλῃ] λ. τὸν θεόν ibid., cf. 42;
.....“ὁ τοῦ κόσμου λ.” Chrysipp.Stoic.2.264; λόγος, = φύσει νόμος,
.....Stoic.2.169; “κατὰ τὸν κοινὸν θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις λ.”
.....M.Ant.7.53;

b. σπερματικὸς λ. generative principle in organisms, “ὁ θεὸς σπ. λ.
.....τοῦ κόσμου” Zeno Stoic.1.28: usu. in pl., Stoic. 2.205,314,al.;
.....“γίνεται τὰ ἐν τῷ παντὶ οὐ κατὰ σπερματικούς, ἀλλὰ κατὰ λ.
.....περιληπτικούς” Plot.3.1.7, cf.4.4.39: so without “σπερματικός,
.....ὥσπερ τινὲς λ. τῶν μερῶν” Cleanth.Stoic.1.111;

c. in Neo-Platonic Philos., of regulative and formative forces, derived
.....from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe, “ὄντων
.....μειζόνων λ. καὶ θεωρούντων αὑτοὺς ἐγὼ γεγέννημαι”Plot.3.8.4;
.....“οἱ ἐν σπέρματι λ. πλάττουσι . . τὰ ζῷα οἷον μικρούς τινας
.....κόσμους” Id.4.3.10, cf.3.2.16,3.5.7; opp. ὅρος, Id.6.7.4.