λῆψις
ἀλλήλων τὰ βάρη βαστάζετε, καὶ οὕτως ἀναπληρώσετε τὸν νόμον τοῦ Χριστοῦ → bear each other's burdens, and in that way fulfill the anointed King's Law (Galatians 6:2)
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ (later λῆμψις POxy.1088.45 (i A.D.), etc.),
A taking hold, seizing, catching, ῥύγχος . . πρὸς τὰς λ. τῶν ζῳδαρίων Arist.PA662b9; αἱ καμπαὶ τῶν δακτύλων καλῶς ἔχουσι πρὸς τὰς λ. καὶ πιέσεις ib.687b10; ἀπορώτερος ἡ λ. the seizure of them will be more difficult, Th.5.110; ἡ λ. τῆς πόλεως the seizure of it, Id.4.114, cf. 7.25. 2 accepting, receiving, ἥδιστον ὅτῳ πάρεστι λ. ὧν ἐρᾷ καθ' ἡμέραν S.Fr.356; ἡ τοῦ μισθοῦ λ. Pl.R.346d; opp. ἀπόδοσις, ib.332b; opp. ἀποβολαί (loss), Arist.Rh.1362a35 (pl.): in pl., receipts, Pl.R.343d, Alc.1.123a, Arist. EN1122a13, al. b taking of medicine, προλούσας πρὸ τῆς λ. POxy. l.c. II attack of fever or sickness, seizure, ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης λ. Hp.Epid.1.6, cf. Morb.1.18, Arist.Pr.866a26. III in Logic, assumption (cf. λῆμμα 11), Id.APr.24a23, 24b11. 2 τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ λ. from our point of view, Ascl.Tact.7.8. IV choice of matter, in a poem, etc., Longin.10.3; cf. λῆμμα 111. V choice of pitch, in Music, Ocell.4.8, Aristid.Quint.1.11 bis. VI Geom., τὴν τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ ἐκκέντρου λ. the determination of the centre of the eccentric circle, Procl.Hyp.5.56.
