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|Definition=εως, ἡ, (τίθημι) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">setting, placing</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπέων θ</b>. <b class="b2">setting</b> of words in verse, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>3.8</span>; πλίνθων καὶ λίθων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>333b</span>, cf. <span class="title">IG</span>7.3073.33 (Lebad.); <b class="b3">θ. νόμων</b> law<b class="b2">giving</b>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ath.</span>3.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>690d</span>: in pl., νόμων θέσεις <span class="bibl">D.18.309</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1289a22</span>; <b class="b3">θ. ὀνόματος</b> <b class="b2">giving</b> of a name, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>390d</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπί τινος</b> <b class="b2">application</b> of word to object, <span class="bibl">Demetr.<span class="title">Eloc.</span> 145</span>; <b class="b3">θ. ἀγώνων</b> <b class="b2">institution</b> of games, <span class="bibl">D.S.4.53</span>; <b class="b2">ordinance, disposition</b>, S.<span class="title">Ichn.</span>277 (only here in Trag.); <b class="b2">setting forth</b> in legal form, ἀσφαλειῶν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1027.12</span> (i A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">laying down</b>, <b class="b3">ὅπλων</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἀναίρεσις</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>814a</span>; of diggers, <b class="b2">plunging</b> of the spade, opp. <b class="b3">ἄρσις</b>, <span class="title">Gp.</span>2.45.5. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">deposit</b> of money, preparatory to a law-suit, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>1191</span> (pl.): generally, <b class="b2">sum deposited</b> in a temple, <span class="title">Inscr.Délos</span> 365.14 (iii B.C.), <span class="title">IG</span>12(3).322 (pl., Thera). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">pledging, giving as security</b>, <span class="bibl">D.33.12</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.8.10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">payment</b>, τελῶν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>425d</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">adoption</b> of a child, κατὰ θέσιν υἱωνός <span class="bibl">Plb.18.35.9</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ph.2.36</span>, <span class="bibl">Philostr. <span class="title">VA</span>6.11</span>; Κρινοτέλην Πινδάρου, θέσει δὲ Φιλοξένου <span class="title">IG</span>12(3).274 (Anaphe), cf. 12(7).50 (Amorgos); <b class="b2">adoption</b> as a citizen of a foreign state, <b class="b3">Ἁλεξανδρεὺς θέσει, Ἁθηναῖος θ</b>. (opp. <b class="b3">φύσει</b>), Suid. s.v. [[Ἀρίσταρχος]], Ἀριστοφάνης Πόδιος. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b2">situation</b>, of a city, Hp.<b class="b2">Aër</b>.6; πόλις αὐτάρκη θ. κειμένη <span class="bibl">Th.1.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">5.7</span>; ἡ θ. τῆς χώρας πρὸς τὰ πνεύματα <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>3.23.5</span>; <b class="b3">τόπων θ</b>. <span class="bibl">Plb.1.41.7</span>: Astron., θ. τῶν ἄστρων <span class="bibl">Herm. <span class="title">in Phdr.</span>p.149A.</span>; <b class="b2">position, arrangement</b>, λεγομένων καὶ γραφομένων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>206a</span>; τῶν μερῶν θέσεις <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>668e</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span>1p.11U.</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>30</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> Math., <b class="b2">local position</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GC</span>322b33</span>; <b class="b3">ἔχειν θ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">APo.</span>88a34</span>; <b class="b3">θ. ἔχειν πρὸς ἄλληλα</b> to have a <b class="b2">local</b> relation, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cat.</span>4b21</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>586c</span>; τῇ θ. μέσον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APr.</span>25b36</span>: Geom., <b class="b3">θέσει δεδόσθαι</b> or <b class="b3">εἶναι</b>, to be given <b class="b2">in position</b>, <span class="bibl">Archim.<span class="title">Sph.Cyl.</span>2.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Euc.<span class="title">Dat.</span>4</span>, <span class="bibl">Apollon.Perg.<span class="title">Con.</span>2.46</span>, al.; <b class="b3">παρὰ θέσει</b> parallel to a straight line <b class="b2">given in position</b>, [Euc.]<span class="title">Dat.Def.</span>15; <b class="b3">εἰς δύο θέσεις τὰς</b> AB, AT to meet the two <b class="b2">straight lines</b> AB, AT <b class="b2">given in position</b>, <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Metr.</span>3.10</span>; κατὰ τὴν θ. τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ph.</span>208b23</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">οὐ τῇ θ. διαφέροντα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ δυνάμει</b> ib.<span class="bibl">22</span>; so in Music, of notes in a scale, <b class="b3">κατὰ θέσιν</b>, opp. <b class="b3">κατὰ δύναμιν</b>, <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Harm.</span>2.5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> Philos., <b class="b2">thesis, position</b>, assumed and requiring proof, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>335a</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Top.</span>104b19</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">APo.</span>72a15</span>; <b class="b3">θέσιν διαφυλάττειν</b> to maintain <b class="b2">a thesis</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">EN</span>1096a2</span>; <b class="b3">κινεῖν</b> to controvert it, Plu.2.687b, cf. 328a, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">general question</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ὑπόθεσις</b> (<b class="b2">special case</b>), <span class="bibl">Aphth.<span class="title">Prog.</span>13</span>, <span class="bibl">Theon <span class="title">Prog.</span>12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Top.</span>21.79</span>, Quint.3.5.5 (but θ. includes <b class="b3">ὑπόθεσις</b> and <b class="b3">ὁρισμός</b>, <span class="bibl">Phlp.<span class="title">in APo.</span>35.1</span>; opp. <b class="b3">ἀξίωμα</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">34.9</span>). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">arbitrary determination</b>, esp. in dat. θέσει, τὰ ὀνόματα μὴ θ. γενέσθαι <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span> 1p.27U.</span>; opp. <b class="b3">φύσει</b>, <span class="bibl">Chrysipp.Stoic.3.76</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.2.3.7</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τὰ θ. δίκαια, νόμιμα</b>, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.50</span>, <span class="bibl">112</span>; <b class="b3">σημαίνειν θ</b>. <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>2.256</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">affirmation</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἄρσις</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">1.192</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">2.244</span>, <span class="bibl">Plot.5.5.6</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> <b class="b2">a setting down</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἄρσις</b> (<b class="b2">lifting</b>), πᾶσα πορεία ἐξ ἄρσεως καὶ θέσεως συντελεῖται <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>885b6</span>: hence, in rhythm, <b class="b2">downward beat</b>, opp. the <b class="b2">upward</b> (ἄρσις), <span class="bibl">Aristid.Quint.1.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Bacch.<span class="title">Harm.</span>98</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> in prosody, <b class="b3">θέσει μακρὰ συλλαβή</b> long by <b class="b2">position</b>, opp. <b class="b3">φύσει</b>, <span class="bibl">D.T.632.30</span>, <span class="bibl">Heph. 1.3</span>: orig. prob. in signf. v.<span class="bibl">3</span>, cf. Sch.D.T.<span class="bibl">p.206H.</span> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">θέσεις, αἱ</b>, in punctuation, <b class="b2">stops</b>, Donat.in <span class="title">Gramm.Lat.</span>4.372 K. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VIII</span> part of a horse's hoof, ἡ θ. τοῦ ποδός <span class="title">Hippiatr.</span>82.</span>