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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: sumphilosopheô 2: technologia 3: philotheôreô 4: emphilosopheô 5: philosopheô
Latin1: physiologia 2: musica 3: philologia 4: - 5: -
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phi^losoph-ia, hê, love of knowledge, pursuit there of, speculation, Isoc. 12.209, Plat. Phaedo 61a, ti=Plat. Gorg. 484c, al.; hê ph. ktêsis epistêmês IDEM=Plat. Euthyd. 288d; defined as askêsis epitêdeiou technês, Stoic. in Placit. 1 ti=Placit. Prooem.2.

2. systematic, methodical treatment of a subject, empeiriai metithi kai philosophiai Isoc. 2.35; hê peri tas eridas ph. scientific treatment of argumentation, IDEM=Isoc. 10.6; hê peri tous logous ph. the study of oratory, IDEM=Isoc. 4.10: pl., hoi en tais ph. polun chronon diatripsantes Plat. Theaet. 172c; technai kai ph. Isoc. 10.67.

3. philosophy, IDEM=Isoc. 11.22, Pl.Def.414b, etc.; historia ph. estin ek paradeigmatôn D.H.Rh.11.2:--

  • Isoc. usu. prefixes the Art., 2.51, au=Isoc. 5.84, au=Isoc. 7.45 (but cf. au=Isoc. 2.35 supr.); sts. also in Pl. and Arist., as Plat. Gorg. 482a, Aristot. Met. 993b20, ti=Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1177a25, and so later, dia tês ph. kai kenês apatês Ep.Col.2.8; but more freq. without Art., tois en philosophiai zôsin Plat. Phaedo 68c, al., cf. Aristot. Pol. 1341b28, al. (cf. Platôn kai ph. Plu.2.176d); exc. when an Adj. or some qualifying word is added to hê theia ph. Plat. Phaedrus 239b; ekeinou têi ph. IDEM=Plat. Lysis 213d; hê peri ta anthrôpeia ph. Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1181b15; hê tôn Italikôn ph. IDEM=Aristot. Met. 987a31 (and pl., hai eirêmenai ph. IBID=au=Aristot. Met. 987a29=lr); so later hê Iônikê ph. D.L.1.122; hê dogmatikê, Akadêmaïkê, skeptikê ph. S.E.P.1.4, etc.; ho Empedoklês en archêi tês ph. Plu.2.607c, etc.; esp. hê prôtê ph. metaphysic, Aristot. Met. 1026a24, cf. au=Aristot. Met. 1026a18=lr.