πόσις
τοῖς πράγμασιν γὰρ οὐχὶ θυμοῦσθαι χρεών· μέλει γὰρ αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ἀλλ' οὑντυγχάνων τὰ πράγματ' ὀρθῶς ἂν τιθῇ, πράξει καλῶς → It does no good to rage at circumstance; events will take their course with no regard for us. But he who makes the best of those events he lights upon will not fare ill.
English (LSJ)
ὁ, poet. πόσσις AP6.323 (Leon.); gen. πόσιος (no gen. is found in Att., πόσεως only in Hdn.Gr.2.700); dat. πὁσει, Ep.
A πόσεϊ Il.5.71; voc. πόσι E.Alc.323, Ar.Th.913; also πόσις E.Hel.1399: pl. πόσεις Id.IA176 (lyr.); acc. πόσιας Il.6.240:—husband, spouse, Il.3.329, Alcm.29, Inscr.Cypr.93 H., Pi.P.9.99, etc.; τὸν ὁμοδέμνιον π. A.Ag.1108 (lyr.); esp. lawful husband, μὴ π. μὲν Ἡρακλῆς ἐμὸς καλῆται, τῆς νεωτέρας δ' ἀνήρ S.Tr.550 (but cf.Il.24.725 and 763): rare in Prose, Arist.Pol.1335b41; π. καὶ ἄλοχος ib. 1253b6; κρυπτὸς π., of a paramour, E.Or.561. (I.-E. potis 'lord, master', cf. πότνια, δεσπότης, Skt.pátis 'lord, master, husband', pátnī 'lady, wife', Lat. potis (sum), etc.)
πόσῐς, ιος, Att. εως, ἡ; dat. πόσει, Ion.
A πόσι Hdt.5.19: (πίνω):— drinking, drink, beverage, πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος ἐζ ἔρον ἕντο Il.1.469, al.; βρῶσίς τε π. τε Od.10.176, cf. Hes.Sc.395: pl., βρώσεσιν ἢ πόσεσιν Democr.235; carousal, Alc.101, Critias 6.9 D.; συγγίνεσθαι ἐς πόσιν to meet for a carousal, Hdt. 1.172, cf. Bull.Soc.Alex.7.66; πρὸς πόσιν τετράφθαι Th.7.73; λιπαρέειν τῇ πόσι Hdt.5.19; παρὰ τὴν π. over their cups, Id.2.121.δ; ἐκ δὲ θοίνας π. ἐγένετο, ἐκ δὲ πόσιος μῶκος Epich.148; πόσιος ἐν βάθει Theoc.14.29: pl., Pl.Lg.641a. 2 draught, αἷμα πίεται τρίτην πόσιν A.Ch.578; ἐκπίνειν ὑστάτην π. Antipho 1.20; πόσις φαρμάκου Id.6.22.
