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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: anaisthêtos 2: aisthêma 3: osphrêsis 4: aisthêtêrion 5: aisthêtos
Latin1: sensorium 2: sagacitas 3: tactio 4: machinamentum 5: sagax
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Words That Regularly Appear With aisthêsis
In Perseus Texts:epistêmêaisthanomaitautosopsishoraô
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aisth-êsis, eôs, hê, sense-perception, sensation, Philol.13, Archyt.1, Arist.APo. 99b35; tou sômatos hê ai. Hp.VM9; pros aisthêsin perceptibly, Ptol. Alm.1.10, etc.: in pl., the senses, Democr.9, al.; di' hepta schêmatôn hai ai. Hp.Vict.1.23, cf. Plat. Theaet. 156b, etc.: in sg. of the several senses, hê tou horan ai. IDEM=Plat. Rep. 507e; ap' opseôs ê tinos allêis ai. IDEM=Plat. Phileb. 39b; organ or seat of sensation, Xen. Mem. 1.4.6; pasa, tas ai. en têi kephalêi einai Arist.Fr.95, cf. ti=Arist. Pr.958b16; ai. pêmatôn perception, sense of . . , Eur. El. 290; esp. of pain, Vett. Val.au=E. El. =lr. al.; also of the mind, perception, knowledge of a thing, en ai. genesthai tinos Plu.Luc.11, etc.; ai. echein tinos, = aisthanesthai tinos, have a perception of a thing, Plat. Apol. 40c; peri humôn ti=Plat. Theaet. 192b; pasan aisthêsin aisthanesthai ti=Plat. Phaedrus 240d; lambanein Isoc. 1.47; en ai. einai Plot.4.7.15:--

  • also of things, aisthêsin echein give a perception, i.e. become perceptible, serving as Pass. to aisthanomai, Thuc. 2.61; more freq. aisthêsin parechein IDEM=Thuc. 3.22, Xen. Anab. 4.6.13, etc.; ai. poiêsai tini Antiph. 5.44, cf. Dem. 10.7; ai. parechein tinos furnish the means of observing, Thuc. 2.50; ai. egeneto peri tinos Dem. 48.16.

    II. in object. sense, impressions of sense,     Aristot. Met. 980a22; stage-effects, Po. au=Aristot. Met. 1454b16; aisthêseis theôn visible appearances of the gods, Plat. Phaedo 111b.