χυμεία: Difference between revisions

|Beta Code=xumei/a

|Definition=ἡ, the <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">art of alloying metals, alchemy</b>, Zos.Alch. ap. Syncell.<span class="bibl">p.24</span> Dindorf (written <b class="b3">χημεία</b>, but <b class="b2">khumia</b> in the Syriac version, Diels <b class="b2">Antike Technik</b> <span class="bibl">p.109</span>), Olymp.Alch.<span class="bibl">p.94</span> B. (χυμεία), Joann.Antioch.<span class="title">Fr.</span>15.3 (<span class="title">FHG</span>ivp.548 (χημ-), and so Suid. s.v. [[δέρας]], but (χειμ-) in Anon.<span class="title">Incred.</span>3 cod.), <span class="title">Fr.</span>165 (<span class="title">FHG</span>ivp.601, <b class="b3">χημία</b> cod.P, χημεία Suid. s.v. [[Διοκλητιανός]] (vv. ll. <b class="b3">χειμεία, μοιχεία</b>), Id. s.v. [[χημεία]] (v.l. [[χειμ-]])). (Named from its supposed inventor <b class="b3">χύμης</b> (v.l. [[χημ- χειμ-]]) acc. to Zos.Alch. l.c., cf. eund.<span class="bibl">pp.169,172</span>B. (χυμ-), Olymp.Alch.p.84B. (χημ-); more prob. from <b class="b3">χύμα</b>, cf. Diels l.c.)</span>

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