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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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doxa^, hê, (dokeô, dekomai) expectation, oud' apo doxês not otherwise than one expects, Hom. Il. 10.324, Hom. Od. 11.344; in Prose, para doxan ê hôs katedokee Hdt. 1.79, etc.; en doxai themenos euchos hoping for . . , Pind. O. 10(11).63; doxan parechein tini mê poiêsesthai . . to make one expect that . . , Xen. Hell. 7.5.21; doxan parechesthai tini hôs . . , c. part., Plat. Soph. 216d; apo tês d. peseein, = Lat. spe excidere, Hdt. 7.203.

II. after Hom., notion, opinion, judgement, whether well grounded or not, brotôn doxai Parm.1.30, cf. au=Parm. 8.51; psuchês eutlêmoni doxêi Aesch. Pers. 28 (anap.); ha doxêi topazô S.Fr.235; doxêi goun emêi IDEM=Soph. Trach. 718; kata ge tên emên, with or without doxan, Plat. Gorg. 472e, ti=Plat. Phileb. 41b: opp. epistêmê, IDEM=Plat. Theaet. 187b sq., ti=Plat. Rep. 506c, Hp.Lex 4, Aristot. Met. 1074b36; phaseis kai d. IDEM=Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1143b13; opp. noêsis, Plat. Rep. 534a; alêthei doxêi doxastai capable of being subjects of true opinion, IDEM=Plat. Theaet. 202b; d. alêtheis ê pseudeis IDEM=Plat. Phileb. 36c; doxês orthotês alêtheia Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1142b11; d. empoiein peri tinos IDEM=Aristot. Pol. 1314b22; kuriai d. philosophical maxims, title of work by Epicurus, Phld.Ir.p.86 W., etc.; hai koinai d. axioms, Aristot. Met. 996b28.



III. the opinion which others have of one, estimation, repute, first in Sol.13.4 anthrôpôn doxan echein agathên, cf. au=Sol. 13.34=lr; d. ep' amphotera pheresthai Thuc. 2.11.

IV. of external appearance, glory, splendour, esp. of the Shechinah, LXX Ex.16.10, al.; d. tou phôtos Act.Ap.22.11: generally, magnificence, plouton kai d. LXX Ge.31.16, cf. Ev.Matt.4.8, al.; esp. of celestial beatitude, 2 Ep.Cor.4.17: pl., 1 Ep.Pet.1.11; also of illustrious persons, dignities, doxas ou tremousin 2 Ep.Pet.2.10; d. blasphêmein Ep.Jud.8.