διάτασις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=-εως, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[tension]], [[dilatation]], ἔχειν διάτασιν to have the [[power]] of [[dilatation]], Arist.PA664a33 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]]); κεφαλῆς διατάσεις καὶ ἰλίγγους Pl. R.407c (prob.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[extension]], of a [[fractured]] or [[dislocated]] [[limb]], Hp.Off.15, cf. Heliod. ap. Orib.49.8.33; σπαρτῶν Alciphr.2.4.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[stretching across]]: hence Medic., διάτασις φρενῶν [[diaphragm]], Hp.VM22; [[διάτασις]] alone, Id.Coac.394; also of [[vaginal]] [[obstruction]], Paul.Aeg.6.72.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[tension]], [[exertion]], πνεύματος Thphr.Sud.32; of athletes and the like, Arist.Pr.885b23, IA705a18; διατάσεις καὶ κλαυθμοί, of infants, Id.Pol.1336a34: metaph., ἡ εὔνοια… οὐκ ἔχει δ. Id.EN1166b33; ἐν δ. γενομένης τῆς ψυχῆς Plu.Cor.21; ἡ πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον διάτασις, of plants, Iamb. Protr.21.λή.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[contention]], [[quarrel]], εἰς μεγάλην ἐλθεῖν διάτασιν πρός τινα D.S.38/9.2 ([[si vera lectio|s.v.l.]]).