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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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κίνησις [ι_], εως, ἡ,
A.motion, opp. rest (στάσις), Pl.Sph.250a; opp. ἠρεμία, Arist.Ph.202a5, etc.
2. in Cyrenaic philos., λεία κ., = ἡδονή, τραχεῖα κ., = πόνος, D.L.2.86; also “αἱ διὰ μορφῆς κατ᾽ ὄψιν ἡδεῖαι κ.” Epicur.Fr.67; αἱ κ. αἱ ἀνθρωπικαί human emotions, Arr.Epict. 2.20.19.
3. dance, Ἄρεος κίνασις (sic) Tyrt.16, cf. Luc.Salt.63, Ephes.2 No.71; “τραγικὴ ἔνρυθμος κ.” Inscr.Magn.165.
4. movement, in a political sense, “ἐν κ. εἶναι” Th.3.75, cf. Plb.3.4.12; ἡ κ. ἡ Ἰουδαϊκή the Jewish revolt, OGI543.15 (Ancyra, ii A.D.); of the Peloponn. war, Th.1.1.
6. movement of an army, Plb.10.23.1 (pl.); “πολεμικαὶ κ.” Ael.Tact.3.4, cf. Arr.Tact.20.1.
b. removal, change of abode, Vett.Val.97.17 (pl.), al.
7. Gramm., inflexion, “τοῦ ζῆμι κ. οὐχ εὕρηται” EM410.38.
8. Law, punitive action, “βασιλικὴ κ.” Cod.Just.1.3.43.10, cf. 10. 27.2.7; setting a process in motion, PLond. 5.1663.13 (vi A.D.).











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