εἶδος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=εἴδους, τό (ἘΙΔΩ), in the Sept. [[chiefly]] for מַרְאֶה and תֹּאַר; [[properly]], [[that]] [[which]] strikes the [[eye]], [[which]] is [[exposed]] to [[view]];<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[external]] oppearance, [[form]], [[figure]], [[shape]], (so from Homer down): σωματικῷ εἴδει, τό [[εἶδος]] [[τοῦ]] προσώπου [[αὐτοῦ]], [[διά]] εἴδους, as encompassed [[with]] the [[visible]] [[appearance]] (of [[eternal]] things) ([[see]] [[διά]], A. I:2), by [[sight]] i. e. beholding (Luth.: im Schauen); [[but]] no [[example]] has [[yet]] been adduced from [[any]] Greek writings in [[which]] [[εἶδος]] is used [[actively]], [[like]] the Latin [[species]], of [[vision]]; ([[στόμα]] [[κατά]] [[στόμα]], ἐν εἴδει, καί οὐ δἰ ὁραμάτων καί ἐνυπνίων, Clement. homil. 17,18; cf. Sept.).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[form]], [[kind]]: [[ἀπό]] παντός εἴδους πονηροῦ ἀπέχεσθε, i. e. from [[every]] [[kind]] of [[evil]] or [[wrong]], [[πονηρός]], [[under]] the [[end]]); (Josephus, Antiquities 10,3, 1 [[πᾶν]] [[εἶδος]] πονηρίας. The Greeks, [[especially]] [[Plato]], [[oppose]] τό [[εἶδος]] to τό [[γένος]], as the Latin does [[species]] to [[genus]]. Cf. Schmidt, [[chapter]] 182,2).