ἔμψυχος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[having life in one]], [[animate]], opp. [[ἄψυχος]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.140</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Simon. 106.4</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span> 1486</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>139</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>245e</span>, al.; ἔμψυχος [[νεκρός]] 'a [[breathing]] [[corpse]]', <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Ant.</span>1167</span>; γῦπες ἔ. τάφοι Gorg.<span class="title">Fr.</span>5aD.; <b class="b3">μὴ κτείνειν τὸ ἔμψυχον</b> = not killing that which has life, of [[Empedocles]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1373b14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>472.18</span> (anap.); ἔμψυχον οὐδὲν ἐσθίει <span class="bibl">Alex.27.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">220.3</span>; δοῦλος ἔ. ὄργανον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1161b4</span>; εἶναι τὸν βασιλέα ἔ. νόμον <span class="bibl">Ph.2.135</span>, cf. Diotog. ap. Stob.4.7.61; [[ἔμψυχα]], [[τά]], [[animal]]s, <span class="bibl">Th.7.29</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGiss.</span>40 ii 22</span> (iii A. D.): Sup., <b class="b3">ὅσα ἐμψυχότατα . . ἦν</b> most [[full]] of [[vital]] [[fluid]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>74e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of diction, [[animated]], [[vivid]], λέξεις <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>129</span> Bonitz, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Dem.Enc.</span>14</span>; so ἔμψυχον [[ἄγαλμα]] <span class="title">AP</span>12.56 (Mel.); πάθη Longin.34.4: Comp., ἡ ἀληθὴς [[εὐφημία]] ἐμψυχοτέρα τῶν Δαιδάλου ἔργων <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>28.342d</span>. Adv. [[ἐμψύχως]] Plu.2.79of: Sup. ἐμψυχότατα <span class="bibl">Herm.<span class="title">in Phdr.</span>p.61A.</span></span>