πεῖρα: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πειρας, ἡ ([[πειράω]]), from Aeschylus down, a [[trial]], [[experiment]], [[attempt]]: [[πεῖραν]] λαμβάνειν τίνος, equivalent to to [[attempt]] a [[thing]], to [[make]] [[trial]] of a [[thing]] or a [[person]] (a [[phrase]] [[common]] in [[secular]] authors; cf. [[Xenophon]], mem. 1,4, 18; Cyril 3,3, 38; [[see]] [[other]] examples in Sturz, Lex. Xenoph. iii., p. 488; [[Plato]], Protag., p. 342a.; [[Gorgias]], p. 448a.; Josephus, Antiquities 8,6, 5; Aelian v. h. 12,22; [[often]] in [[Polybius]], cf. Schweighäuser, Lex. [[Polybius]], p. 460; the Sept. Hebrews, the [[passage]] cited; Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 146)), θαλάσσης, to [[try]] [[whether]] the [[sea]] [[can]] be crossed [[dry]]-[[shod]] [[like]] the [[land]], to [[have]] [[trial]] of a [[thing]], i. e. to [[experience]], [[learn]] to [[know]] by [[experience]], μαστίγων, [[Polybius]]; τῆς προνοίας, Josephus, Antiquities 2,5, 1).