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|mdlsjtxt=[[λόγος]], ὁ, [λέγω3]<br />(A) the [[word]] or that by [[which]] the [[inward]] [[thought]] is expressed, Lat. [[oratio]]; and, (B) the [[inward]] [[thought]] itself, Lat. [[ratio]].<br />A. Lat. vox, [[oratio]], that [[which]] is said or [[spoken]]:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[word]], pl. words, i. e. [[language]], [[talk]], Hom., etc.; λόγου [[ἕνεκα]], Lat. [[dicis]] [[causa]], [[merely]] for [[talking]]'s [[sake]], Plat.; λόγῳ in [[word]], in [[pretence]], opp. to ἔργῳ (in [[deed]], in [[reality]]), Hdt., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[word]], [[saying]], [[statement]], Thuc.: an [[oracle]], Pind., Plat.:— a [[saying]], [[maxim]], [[proverb]], Pind., Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> an [[assertion]], [[promise]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[resolution]], κοινῷ λ. by [[common]] [[consent]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a [[condition]], ἐπὶ λόγῳ τοιῷδε Hdt.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> a [[command]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> [[speech]], [[discourse]], [[conversation]], εἰς λόγους [[ἐλθεῖν]], [[συνελθεῖν]], [[ἀφικέσθαι]] τινί Hdt., [[attic]]; λόγου [[μεῖζον]], κρεῖσσον [[beyond]] [[expression]], Hdt., Thuc.; λόγου ἄξιον [[worth]] [[mention]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[right]] of [[speech]], [[power]] to [[speak]], λόγον αἰτεῖσθαι Thuc.; διδόναι Xen.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[talk]] [[about]] one, [[report]], [[repute]], Lat. [[fama]], [[λόγος]], Hdt., [[attic]]; [[λόγος]] [[ἐστί]], [[λόγος]] [[ἔχει]], κατέχει, φέρεται, c. acc. et inf., so the [[story]] goes, Lat. [[fama]] fert, Hdt., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[speech]], [[language]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> a [[saying]], [[tale]], [[story]], opp. on the one [[hand]] to [[mere]] [[fable]] (μῦθοσ), on the [[other]], to [[regular]] [[history]] (ἱστορίἀ, Hdt., Thuc., etc.: then, a [[fictitious]] [[story]], [[fable]], like those of Aesop, Hdt., Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[narrative]], and in plural histories, [[history]], Hdt.: in sg. one [[part]] of [[such]] a [[work]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> [[generally]], [[prose]]-[[writing]], [[prose]], Xen., etc.<br /><b class="num">VI.</b> a [[speech]], [[oration]], Oratt.<br /><b class="num">VII.</b> like [[ῥῆμα]], the [[thing]] [[spoken]] of, the [[subject]] or [[matter]] of the [[λόγος]], Hdt., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">VIII.</b> that [[which]] is stated, a [[proposition]], [[position]], [[principle]], Plat.: also = [[ὁρισμός]], a [[definition]], Plat.<br />B. Lat. [[ratio]], [[thought]], [[reason]], οὐκ [[ἔχει]] λόγον admits not of [[reason]], Soph.; ὀρθὸς λ. Plat.; ὡς [[ἔχει]] λόγον, = ὡς ἔοικεν, Dem.:— κατὰ λόγον [[agreeably]] to [[reason]], Plat.; μετὰ λόγου Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> an [[opinion]], [[expectation]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[reason]], [[ground]], [[plea]], Soph., etc.; ἐκ τίνος λόγου; on [[what]] [[ground]]? Aesch.; ἐξ οὐδενὸς λ. Soph., etc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> ὁ [[λόγος]] αἱρέει, c. acc. et inf., it stands to [[reason]] that…, Lat. [[ratio]] evincit, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[account]], [[consideration]], [[esteem]], [[regard]], λόγον βροτῶν οὐκ ἔσχεν οὐδένα Aesch.; Μαρδονίου [[λόγος]] οὐδεὶς γίγνεται Hdt.; λόγου οὐδενὸς [[γενέσθαι]] to be of no [[account]], Hdt.; λόγου ποιεῖσθαί τινα or τι, to make [[account]] of a [[person]] or [[thing]], Hdt.;—so, ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ ποιεῖσθαι Hdt.;— ἐν ἀνδρὸς λόγῳ [[εἶναι]] to be reckoned as a man, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> an [[account]], λόγον διδόναι τινός to [[give]] an [[account]] of a [[thing]], Hdt., [[attic]]; so, λόγον παρέχειν Plat.; λ. λαμβάνειν [[παρά]] τινος Dem.; λ. ἀπαιτεῖν Dem.; ὑπέχειν Plat., Dem., etc.; ἐγγράφειν Dem., etc.; ἀποφέρειν Aeschin.; cf. [[λογιστής]].<br /><b class="num">III.</b> due [[relation]], [[proportion]], [[analogy]], κατὰ λόγον τινός or τινί Hdt., [[Attic]]<br />C. Ὁ ΛΟΓ/Ος, the Logos or Word, comprising [[both]] senses of Thought and Word, NTest.