διάθεσις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εως, ἡ, ([[διατίθημι]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[placing in order]], [[arrangement]] (ἡ τοῦ ἔχοντος μέρη τάξις <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1022b1</span>), <span class="bibl">Antipho Soph.24a</span>; πολιτείας <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>710b</span>; τῶν ξενίων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ti.</span>27a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[disposition]] or [[composition]] in a work of art (opp. [[εὕρεσις]]), <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>236a</span>; opp. [[ἱστορία]], [[μῦθος]], <span class="bibl">Plb. 34.4.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Arat.</span>32</span>, etc.; διάθεσις ᾠδῆς <span class="bibl">Eup.303</span>; τῶν ἐπῶν <span class="bibl">Phryn.Com. 55</span>; [[plan]] of a building, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Per.</span>13</span>; [[subject]] of a picture, etc., Polem. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.5.210b</span>; διάθεσις μυθολογίας Plu.2.16b; [[representation]] in a play, <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Aut.</span>20.2</span>: in plural, [[word-painting]], Plu.2.17b; of geographical [[description]], <span class="bibl">Str.1.1.16</span>; [[rhetorical]] [[art]], μετ' αὐξήσεως καὶ διαθέσεως <span class="bibl">Plb.2.61.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> in oratory, [[delivery]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Dem.</span>7</span>; διάθεσις σώματός τε καὶ τόνου φωνῆς <span class="bibl">Longin.<span class="title">Rh.</span>p.194H.</span> </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[disposition]] of property, [[will]], [[testament]], = [[διαθήκη]], <span class="bibl">Lys.<span class="title">Fr.</span>44</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>922b</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[disposing]] of, [[sale]], τῶν περιόντων <span class="bibl">Isoc.11.14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>38.10</span> (ii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Str.11.2.12</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sol.</span> 24</span>; <b class="b3">οἷς διάθεσις εὔπορος</b>, perhaps [[means]] of [[disposing]] of it, of [[making]] away [[with]] it, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1372a33</span> (possibly, [[inventive]] [[disposition]]). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b3">διάθεσις ἔγγραφος</b> [[written]] [[report]], POxy.52.13 (iv A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> = [[διάθεμα]], Procl.inCra.p.10P.(pl.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> (from Pass.) [[bodily]] [[state]], [[condition]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span>7</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>778b34</span>; διάθεσις τοῦ σώματος <span class="bibl">Philem.95.4</span>; <b class="b3">διάθεσις ὑγιεινή, νοσώδης</b>, Gal.5.826, 17(2).238; [[ἕξις]] defined as διάθεσις μόνιμος Id.5.826; νευρικὴ διάθεσις <span class="title">OGI</span>331.11 (Pergam.); of the mind, <span class="bibl">Antipho Soph. 24a</span>; ἕξις ψυχῆς καὶ διάθεσις <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>11d</span>; distinguished from [[ἕξις]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cat.</span>8b28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">de An.</span>417b15</span>, Zeno and <span class="bibl">Chrysipp.Stoic.1.50</span>, <span class="bibl">3.111</span>; διάθεσις ἁμαρτωλός <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Lib.</span>p.560</span>., al.; <b class="b3">διάθεσις σωματική, διάθεσις ψυχική</b>, <span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Synt.</span>278.10</span>: pl., Diotog. ap. Stob.4.7.62. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[disposition]] towards persons, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>489a</span>; [[propensity]], <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Att.</span>14.3.2</span>; <b class="b3">πρός τινα</b> Sch.<span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[state]], [[condition]], τὴν βασιγείαν εἰς τὴν ἀρχαίαν διάθεσιν κατέστησεν <span class="title">OGI</span> 219.11 (Sigeum, iv/iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> Gramm., [[force]], [[function]], <b class="b3">τοῦ ὀνόματος διαθέσεις εἰσὶ δύο, ἐνέργεια καὶ πάθος</b> (e.g. [[κριτής]], [[κριτός]]) <span class="bibl">D.T.637.29</span>; especially of the [[voice]]s of the verb, διαθέσεις εἰσὶ τρεῖς, ἐνέργεια, πάθος, μεσότης <span class="bibl">Id.638.8</span>; <b class="b3">διάθεσις παθητική, διάθεσις μέση</b>, <span class="bibl">A.D.<span class="title">Synt.</span>210.19</span>, <span class="bibl">226.10</span>; also of tense, <b class="b3">χρονικὴ διάθεσις</b> ib.<span class="bibl">251.1</span> (s.v.l.); <b class="b3">διαβατικὴ διάθεσις</b> [[transitive]] [[force]], ib.<span class="bibl">43.18</span>.</span>