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|Definition=ὁ (fem. by attraction <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> τόπον τὰν καλειμέναν Δαματρείαν <span class="title">IG</span> 9(1).32.80 (Stiris, ii B.C.)), [[place]], [[region]], first in A. (v. infr.), afterwds. freq. in all writers; periphr., <b class="b3">χθονὸς πᾶς τ</b>., i.e. the whole earth, <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Eu.</span>249</span>; ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήνων τ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pers.</span>790</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν Ἑλλάδος τόποις</b> in Greece, ib.<span class="bibl">796</span>; ἐν Αὐλίδοστ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>191</span> (lyr.); Πέλοπος ἐντ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>703</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">292</span>; <b class="b3">πρὸς ἑσπέρους τ</b>. towards the West, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>350</span>; <b class="b3">πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνος τόπων</b> before Salamis, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pers.</span>447</span>; Θρῄκης ἐκ τόπων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>67</span>; Διρκαίων ἐκ τ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1027</span> (lyr.): so in Prose, [[district]], ὁ τ. ὁ Ἑλληνικός <span class="bibl">Isoc. 5.107</span>, cf. <span class="title">Ep.</span>1.8; ὁ περὶ Θρᾴκην τ. <span class="bibl">D.20.59</span>; ὁ ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης τ. <span class="bibl">Aeschin. 2.9</span>, <span class="bibl">3.73</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ τ. οὗτος, ἐν τούτοις τοῖς τ</b>., <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.4.4</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.4.20</span>; <b class="b3">ὅλος τ</b>. a whole [[region]], <span class="bibl">D.19.230</span>; κατὰ τόπους καὶ κώμας <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Criti.</span> 119a</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ τῆς χώρας τ</b>. the [[places]] of a country, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>760c</span>, etc. (but <b class="b3">ὁ τ. τῆς χώρας</b> the [[geographical position]], <span class="bibl">D.4.31</span>; [[region]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>705c</span>); <b class="b3">ὁ ἅγιοστ</b>., of Jerusalem, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">2 Ma.</span>2.18</span> (cf. infr. <span class="bibl">5</span>); the universe divided into three [[τόποι]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">IA</span>706b3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cael.</span>312a8</span> (contrast <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PA</span>666a15</span>, etc.); <b class="b3">οἱ κοινοὶ τ</b>. public [[sites]] or [[buildings]], IG42(1).65.8 (Epid.); ἄσυλος τ. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1053 ii 9</span> (i B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>5.83</span> (pl., ii B. C.); <b class="b3">οἰκίαι καὶ τόποι</b> houses and [[sites]], ib.<span class="bibl">281.12</span> (ii B.C.); so <b class="b3">ψιλοὶ τ</b>. [[sites]] not built upon, <span class="title">OGI</span>52.2 (Ptolemais, iii/ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[place]], [[position]], οὐ τὸν τρόπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν τ. μόνον μεταλλάξαι <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.78</span>; <b class="b3">ὑπολιποῦ τ</b>. leave a [[space]] (in a document), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>327.83</span> (iii B.C.); <b class="b3">περικήπῳ τ. καταλιπεῖν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">193.8</span> (iii B.C.); <b class="b3">τ. ἔχειν</b> have a [[place]], <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Dem.</span>23</span>, Plu.2.646a; <b class="b3">φίλου τ. ἔχειν</b> hold [[the place]] of... <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>2.4.5</span>; Μερόλας ὁ αἱρεθεὶς ὕπατος εἰς τὸν τοῦ Κίννα τ. <span class="bibl">D.S.38</span>/<span class="bibl">39.3</span>; ἐνεγράφη εἰς τὴν ἱερωσύνην εἰς τὸν Αευκίου Δομιτίου τ. τετελευτηκότος Nic. Dam.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 127.4J., cf. <span class="bibl">D.H.2.73</span>; ἀναπληροῦν τὸν τ. τοῦ ἰδιώτου <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ep.Cor.</span>14.16</span>; <b class="b3">τ. ἔχειν</b> also = have [[room]] (to grow), <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.7.1</span>; [[τόπῳ]] c. gen., [[in place of]], [[instead of]], <span class="bibl">Hdn.2.14.5</span>; <b class="b3">ἀνὰ τόπον</b> on [[the spot]], [[immediately]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>604</span> (lyr., dub.l.); so ἐν τόπῳ <span class="title">IG</span>12(7).515.63 (Amorgos); ἐπὶ τόπου <span class="bibl">Plb.4.73.8</span>; ἐπὶ τῶν τ. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PEnteux.</span>55.5</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>70.16</span> (ii B.C.), <span class="title">CIL</span>3.567.3 (Delph., ii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>2106.23</span> (iv A. D.), etc.; κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τ. <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>3.1</span>; <b class="b3">παρὰ τόπον</b> at a wrong [[place]], <span class="bibl">Str.10.2.21</span>, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>3.21.16</span> (but <b class="b3">παρὰ τ. καὶ παρὰ καιρόν</b> by virtue of the [[place]] and the time, ib.<span class="bibl">3.21.14</span>). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[place]] or [[part]] of the body, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span> 2.46</span>, <span class="title">Loc.Hom.</span>tit., <span class="bibl">Sor.2.40</span>, al., Gal. in titles of works, e.g. <b class="b3">περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων, περὶ συνθέσεως φαρμάκων τῶν κατὰ τόπους;</b> esp. <b class="b3">ὁ τόπος</b>, [[pudendum muliebre]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>572b28</span>, <span class="bibl">583a15</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Sor.2.62</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[place]], [[passage]] in an author, κατὰ τόπους τινὰς τῆς ἱστορίας <span class="bibl">Plb.12.25f</span>.<span class="bibl">1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ph.2.63</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>4.17</span>, <span class="bibl">Sor.2.57</span>,<span class="bibl">58</span>, etc.; the word is prob. interpolated in <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.1.20</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[burial-place]], IG12(7).401 (Amorgos), al., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Marc.</span> 16.6</span>; also in codd. of <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span> 1041</span> (fort. leg. [[τάφον]]); later <b class="b3">ὁ ἅγιος τ</b>. is freq. of the [[grave]] of a martyr, or of a [[monastery]] associated with it, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PMasp.</span>94.18</span> (vi A.D.), etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> in Egypt, [[district]], [[department]], a sub-division of the [[νομός]], = [[τοπαρχία]], <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PMich.Zen.</span>43.8</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Theb.Ostr.</span>27.2</span> (ii B. C.): but most freq. in pl., <b class="b3">ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν τ. στρατηγός, πράκτωρ</b>, etc., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PEnteux.</span>27.9</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRein.</span>7.17</span>,<span class="bibl">35</span> (ii B. C.), etc.; <b class="b3">οἱ ἔξω τ</b>. dub. sens. in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PEnteux.</span>87.2</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1114.6</span> (i B. C.), etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> a [[room]] in a house, <b class="b3">τόπον ἕνα ἄνευ ἐνοικίου</b> ib.<span class="bibl">896.4</span> (ii A. D.); δύο τόπους ἤτοι συμπόσια <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span> 1129.10</span> (V A. D.), cf. 502.34 (ii A. D.), 912.13 (iii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">8</span> [[position]] on the zodiac, <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.139.13</span>; esp. the twelve [[regions]] of <span class="bibl">300</span>, <span class="bibl">Ptol. <span class="title">Tetr.</span>128</span>, <span class="bibl">Heph.Astr.1.12</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">9</span> αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς καλεῖται τόπος, τῷ περιέχειν τὰ ὅλα <span class="bibl">Ph.1.630</span>, cf. <span class="title">Corp.Herm.</span>2.12, <span class="bibl">Hippol. <span class="title">Haer.</span>6.32</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[topic]], <span class="bibl">Isoc.5.109</span>, <span class="bibl">10.38</span>, <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.216</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.21.19.2</span>, Phld. <span class="title">Rh.</span>1.119S., etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[common-place]] or [[element]] in Rhetoric, ὁ τοῦ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον τ. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1358a14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1396b30</span>, <span class="bibl">1397a7</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ αὐτὸ λέγω στοιχεῖον καὶ τ</b>. ib. <span class="bibl">1403a18</span>: pl., Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.226S. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> = [[ὁμολογουμένου πράγματος αὔξησις]], Hermog <span class="title">Prog.</span>11; <b class="b3">κοινὸς τ</b>. ib.6. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">c</span> generally, [[sphere]], ὁ πραγματικὸς τ. <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Comp.</span>1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> metaph., [[opening]], [[occasion]], [[opportunity]], ἐν τ. τινὶ ἀφανεῖ <span class="bibl">Th.6.54</span> (but [[τρόπῳ]] is prob. cj.); ὀργῇ διδόναι τ. Plu.2.462b; μὴ δίδοτε τ. τῷ διαβόλῳ <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Eph.</span>4.27</span>; <b class="b3">δότε τ. τῇ ὀργῇ</b> leave [[room]] for the wrath (of God), i.e. let God punish, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Rom.</span>12.19</span>; μὴ καταλείπεσθαί σφισι τ. ἐλέους <span class="bibl">Plb.1.88.2</span>; μετανοίας τ. οὐχ εὗρε <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Hebr.</span>12.17</span>; οὐδὲ φυγῆς τόπον εὐμοιρήσαντες <span class="bibl">Hld.6.13</span>; <b class="b3">τ. διδόναι τινί</b> c. inf., give [[occasion]] to... <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Si.</span>4.5</span>.</span>