ψυχαγωγία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[evocation of souls from the nether world]], <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">Her.</span>18.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Eust.1614.59</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> metaph., <b class="b2">winning of men's souls, persuasion</b>, whence Rhetoric is called a <b class="b3">ψυχαγωγία</b> by <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>261a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">271c</span>, <span class="title">Com.Adesp.</span>199, Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.148S.; also of poetry, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Po.</span>2.61</span>, al.:generally, [[gratification]], [[pastime]], <span class="bibl">Plb.31.29.5</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.91</span>, Aristeas <span class="bibl">78</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">2 Ma.</span>2.25</span>, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>15.7.7</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Nigr.</span>18</span>; [[amusement]], <span class="bibl">Sor.1.117</span> (pl.); opp. <b class="b3">διδασκαλία</b>, as the aim of a poet, Eratosth. ap. <span class="bibl">Str.1.1.10</span>: pl., μουσικαὶ ψ. Phld.<span class="title">Mus.</span>p.86K., cf. <span class="bibl">Aristid.<span class="title">Or.</span>29(40).21</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> (ψυχρός, ψῦχος) [[cooling treatment]] in acute fever, Philum. ap. <span class="bibl">Aët.5.78</span> (but, <b class="b2">animi oblectamenta procurentur</b>, in Lat. version): in heart disease, <span class="bibl">Paul.Aeg.3.34</span>.</span>