πεῖρα: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πειρας, ἡ ([[πειράω]]), from [[Aeschylus]] [[down]], a [[trial]], [[experiment]], [[attempt]]: [[πεῖραν]] λαμβάνειν τίνος, equivalent to to [[attempt]] a [[thing]], to [[make]] [[trial]] of a [[thing]] or a [[person]] (a [[phrase]] [[common]] in [[secular]] authors; cf. [[Xenophon]], mem. 1,4, 18; Cyril 3,3, 38; [[see]] [[other]] examples in Sturz, Lex. Xenoph. iii., p. 488; [[Plato]], Protag., p. 342a.; [[Gorgias]], p. 448a.; Josephus, Antiquities 8,6, 5; Aelian v. h. 12,22; [[often]] in [[Polybius]], cf. Schweighäuser, Lex. [[Polybius]], p. 460; the Sept. Hebrews , the [[passage]] cited; Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 146)), θαλάσσης, to [[try]] [[whether]] the [[sea]] [[can]] be crossed [[dry]]-[[shod]] [[like]] the [[land]], to [[have]] [[trial]] of a [[thing]], i. e. to [[experience]], [[learn]] to [[know]] by [[experience]], μαστίγων, [[Polybius]]; τῆς προνοίας, Josephus, Antiquities 2,5, 1).

|mdlsjtxt=[[πεῖρα]], ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[trial]], [[attempt]], [[essay]], [[experiment]], Theogn., Soph., etc.; —[[πεῖραν]] ἔχειν to be proved, Pind.; but, [[πεῖραν]] ἔχειν τινός to [[have]] [[experience]] of a [[thing]], Xen.; π. [[ἔχει]] τῆς γνώμης involves a [[trial]] of [[your]] [[resolution]], Thuc.; —πεῖράν τινος λαμβάνειν to make [[trial]] or [[proof]] of… , Xen., etc.: —πεῖράν τινος διδόναι, Lat. [[specimen]] sui edere, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with Preps., ἀπὸ πείρης by [[experiment]], Hdt.: —εἰς πεῖράν τινος ἔρχεσθαι, [[ἰέναι]] Eur., Thuc.: —ἐν πείρᾳ τινὸς γίγνεσθαι to be acquainted with, [[associate]] with one, Xen.: —ἐπὶ πείρᾳ by way of [[test]] or [[trial]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> an [[attempt]] on or [[against]] one, c. gen., Soph.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> [[generally]], an [[attempt]], [[enterprise]], Aesch., Soph.