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kosmos, ho, order, kata kosmon in order, duly, eu kata k. Hom. Il. 10.472, al.; ou kata k. shamefully, Hom. Od. 8.179; maps atar ou kata k. Hom. Il. 2.214: freq. in dat., kosmôi kathizein to sit in order, Hom. Od. 13.77, cf. Hdt. 8.67; ou k. . . eleusometha Hom. Il. 12.225; k. theinai ta panta Hdt. 2.52, cf. au=Hdt. 7.36, etc.; diathes tade k. Aristoph. Birds 1331; k. pherein bear becomingly, Pind. P. 3.82; dexasthai tina k. Aesch. Ag. 521; sun kosmôi Hdt. 8.86, Arist.Mu. 398b23; en kosmôi Hp.Mul.1.3, Plat. Sym. 223b; kosmôi oudeni kosmêthentes in no sort of order, Hdt. 9.59; pheugein, apienai oudeni k., IDEM=Hdt. 3.13, au=Hdt. 8.60.g, etc.; ataktôs kai oudeni k. Thuc. 3.108, cf. Aesch. Pers. 400; ouketi ton auton k. no longer in the same order, Hdt. 9.66; oudena k. IBID=au=Hdt. 9.65=lr, au=Hdt. 9.69=lr; ên d' oudeis k. tôn poioumenôn Thuc. 3.77: generally, of things, natural order, ginetai tôn tetartaiôn hê katastasis ek toutou tou k. Hp. Prog.20.

2. good order, good behaviour,
= kosmiotês Phld.ti=Hp. Mus. p.43 K.; discipline, Dem. 18.216; ou k., all' akosmia S.Fr.846.

3. form, fashion, ippou kosmon aeison dourateou
Hom. Od. 8.492; k. epeôn apatêlos Parm.8.52; exêgeomenôn . . ton k. autou the fashion of it, Hdt. 3.22; k. tonde . . ho katastêsamenos who established this order or from, IDEM=Hdt. 1.99.

4. of states, order, government, metastêsai ton k.
Thuc. 4.76, cf. au=Thuc. 8.48, au=Thuc. 8.67=lr; menein en tôi oligarchikôi k. au=Thuc. 8.72, etc.; esp. of the Spartan constitution, Hdt. 1.65, Clearch.3: pl., poleôn kosmoi Plat. Prot. 322c.

II. ornament, decoration, esp. of women,
Hom. Il. 14.187, Hes. WD 76, Hdt. 5.92.ê; gunaikeios k. Plat. Rep. 373c, etc.; of a horse, Hom. Il. 4.145; of men, Hdt. 3.123, Aesch. Seven 397, etc.; glaukochroa kosmon elaias, of an olive-wreath, Pind. O. 3.13, cf. au=Pind. O. 8.83, ti=Pind. P. 2.10, etc.; k. kunôn Xen. Hunt. 6.1; k. kai epipla Lys. 12.19; k. argurous a service of plate, Ath.6.231b; hieros k. OGI90.40 (Rosetta, ii B. C.): pl., ornaments, Aesch. Ag. 1271; hoi peri to sôma k. Isoc. 2.32: metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, IDEM=Isoc. 9.9 (pl.), Aristot. Rh. 1408a14, ti=Aristot. Poet. 1457b2, au=Aristot. Poet. 1458a33; hadumelê k. keladein to sing sweet songs of praise, Pind. O. 11 (au=Pind. O. 10).au=Pind. O. 13 (s.v.l.).



III. ruler, regulator, title of chief magistrate in Crete, SIG712.57, etc.; collectively, body of kosmoi, IBID=au=SIG 524.1; tou k. tois pliasi IBID=au=SIG 527.74: also freq. in pl., IBID=au=SIG 528.1, al.,
Aristot. Pol. 1272a6, Strab. 10.4.18, au=Strab. 10.4.22=lr; cf. kormos .

IV. Philos., world-order, universe, first in Pythag., acc.to Placit.2.1.1, D.L.8.48 (cf. [Philol.]21), or Parm., acc. to Thphr.ap.D.L.l.c.; kosmon tonde oute tis theôn oute anthrôpôn epoiêsen, all' ên aei kai estin kai estai pur Heraclit.30; ho kaloumenos hupo tôn sophistôn k.
Xen. Mem. 1.1.11: freq. in Pl., Grg.508a, ti=Plat. Tim. 27a, al.; hê tou holou sustasis esti k. kai ouranos Arist.Cael.280a21, cf. Epicur.Ep. 2p.37U., Chrysipp.Stoic.2.168, etc.; ho k. zôion empsuchon kai logikon Posidon.ap.D.L.7.139, cf. Plat. Tim. 30b: sts. of the firmament, gês hapasês tês hupo tôi kosmôi keimenês Isoc. 4.179; ho peri tên gên holos k. Arist. Mete.339a20; metelthein eis ton aenaon k., of death, OGI56.48 (Canopus, iii B. C.); but also, of earth, as opp. heaven, ho epichthonios k. Herm.ap. Stob.1.49.44; or as opp. the underworld, ho anô k. Iamb.VP27.123; of any region of the universe, ho metarsios k. Herm.ap.Stob.1.49.44; of the sphere whose centre is the earth's centre and radius the straight line joining earth and sun, Archim.Aren.4; of the sphere containing the fixed stars, Plat. Epin. 987b: in pl., worlds, coexistent or successive, Anaximand. et alii ap.Placit.2.1.3, cf. Epicur.l.c.; also, of stars, Nux megalôn k. kteateira Aesch. Ag. 356 (anap.), cf. Heraclid.et Pythagorei ap.Placit.2.13.15 (= Orph.Fr.22); hoi hepta k. the Seven planets, Corp.Herm.11.7.

V. Pythag.name for six, Theol.Ar.37; for ten, IBID=au=Theol.Ar. 59.