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Strong G3056λόγος

word

Transliteration
logos
Pronunciation
log'-os
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse) also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is Christ): - account cause communication X concerning doctrine fame X have to do intent matter mouth preaching question reason + reckon remove say (-ing) shew X speaker speech talk thing + none of these things move me tidings treatise utterance word work.

Detailed definition

λόγος, -ου, ὁ (λέγω)
[in LXX chiefly for דָּבָר, also for מִלָּה,אֵמֶר, etc.;]

I. Of that by which the inward thought is expressed, Lat. oratio, sermo, vox, verbum.
1. a word, not in the grammatical sense of a mere name (ἔπος, ὄνομα, ῥῆμα), but a word as embodying a conception or idea: Mat.8:8, Luk.7:7, 1Co.14:9, 19 Heb.12:19, al.

2. a saying, statement, declaration: Mat.19:22 (T om.), Mrk.5:36 7:29, Luk.1:29, Jhn.2:22 6:60, Act.7:29, al.; with genitive attrib., Act.13:15, Rom.9:9, Heb.7:28, al.; of the sayings, commands, promises, etc., of teachers, Mat.7:24 10:14, Mrk.8:38, Luk.9:4, Jhn.14:24, al.; λ. κενοί, Eph.5:6; ἀληθινοί, Rev.19:9; πιστοί, Rev.22:6; esp. of the precepts, decrees and promises of God, ὁ λ. τ. θεοῦ, the word of God: Mrk.7:13, Jhn.10:35, Rom.13:9, 1Co.14:36, Php.1:14, al.; absol., ὁ λ., Mat.13:21, 22 Mrk.16:[20], Luk.1:2, Act.6:4, Heb.4:12, al.

3. speech, discourse: Act.14:12, 2Co.10:10, Jas.3:2; opposite to ἐπιστολή, 2Th.2:15; disting, from σοφία, 1Co.2:1; ἀναστροφή, 1Ti.4:12; δύναμις, 1Co.4:19, 1Th.1:5; ἔργον, Rom.15:18; οὐδενὸς λ. τίμιον (not worthy of mention), Act.20:24; of the faculty of speech, Luk.24:19, 2Co.11:6; of the style of speech, Mat.5:37, 1Co.1:5; of instruction, Col.4:3, 1Pe.3:1; with genitive of person(s), Jhn.5:24 8:52, Act.2:41, al.; ὁ λ. ὁ ἐμός, Jhn.8:31; with genitive obj. (τ.) ἀληθείας, 2Co.6:7, Col.1:5, Jas.1:18; τ. καταλλαγῆς, 2Co.5:19; τ. σταυροῦ, 1Co.1:18; of mere talk, 1Co.4:19, 2o, Col.2:23, 1Jn.3:18; of the talk which one occasions, hence, repute: Col.2:23.

4. subject-matter, hence, teaching, doctrine: Act.18:15, 2Ti.2:17, al.; esp. of Christian doctrine: Mat.13:20-23, Mrk.4:14-20 8:32, Luk.1:2, Act.8:4, Gal.6:6, 1Th.1:6, al.; with genitive of person(s), τ. θεοῦ, Luk.5:1, Jhn.17:6, Act.4:29, 1Co.14:36, I Jhn.1:10, Rev.6:9, al.; τ. Κυρίου, Act.8:25, 1Th.1:8, al.; τ. Χριστοῦ, Col.3:16, Rev.3:8; with genitive appos., Act.15:7; with genitive attrib., Heb.5:13.

5. a story, tale, narrative: Mat.28:15, Jhn.21:23, Act.1:1 11:22; before περί, Luk.5:15.

6. That which is spoken of (Plat., al.; V. Kennedy, Sources, 124), matter, affair, thing: Mat.21:24, Mrk.1:45 11:29, Luk.20:3, Act.8:21; of a matter in dispute, as a case or suit at law, Act.19:38; pl. (1Ma.7:33, al.), Luk.1:4.

II. Of the inward thought itself, Lat. ratio.
1. reason,
__(a) of the mental faculty (Hdt., Plat., al.): κατὰ λόγον, Act.18:14;
__(b) a reason, cause: τίνι λόγῳ, Act.10:29; παρεκτὸς λόγου πορνείας, Mat.5:32 19:9, WH, mg., R, mg.

2. account,
__(a) regard: Act.20:24, Rec.;
__(b) reckoning: Php.4:15, 17; συναίρειν (which see) λ., Mat.18:23 25:19; in forensic sense, Rom.14:12, Heb.13:17, 1Pe.4:5; with genitive of thing(s), Luk.16:2; before περί, Mat.12:36, Act.19:40, 1Pe.3:15.

3. proportion, analogy: Php.2:16 (Field, Notes, 193 f.).

III. ὁ λ., the Divine Word or Logos: Jhn.1:1, 14; τ. ζωῆς, 1Jn.1:1; τ. θεοῦ, Rev.19:13 (see Westc, Swete, CGT, in ll.; reff. in Artt., Logos, DB, DCG).
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3056 appears in 316 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • word214
  • saying31
  • say19
  • speech8
  • account8
  • thing7
  • matter4
  • utterance4
  • communication3
  • with3
  • a2
  • of2

First verses

  1. Matthew 5:32
    But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
  2. Matthew 5:37
    But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
  3. Matthew 7:24
    Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
  4. Matthew 7:26
    And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
  5. Matthew 7:28
    And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
  6. Matthew 8:8
    The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
  7. Matthew 8:16
    When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
  8. Matthew 10:14
    And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
  9. Matthew 12:32
    And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
  10. Matthew 12:36
    But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
  11. Matthew 12:37
    For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
  12. Matthew 13:19
    When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
  13. Matthew 13:20
    But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
  14. Matthew 13:21
    Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
  15. Matthew 13:22
    He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
  16. Matthew 13:23
    But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
  17. Matthew 15:12
    Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
  18. Matthew 15:23
    But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
  19. Matthew 18:23
    Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
  20. Matthew 19:1
    And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
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λόγος, ὁ,
verbal noun of λέγω (B), with senses corresponding to λέγω (B) II and III (on the various senses of the word see [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Theon Smyrnaeus Philosophus pp.72,73 H., “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 4.327): common in all periods in Prose and Verse, exc. Epic, in which it is found in signification derived from λέγω (B))] 111, compareinfr. VI. 1 a:
I computation, reckoning (compare λέγω (B) II).
I.1 account of money handled, σανίδες εἰς ἃς τὸν λ. ἀναγράφομεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.374.191; ἐδίδοσαν τὸν λ. [prev. work]232.2; λ. δώσεις τῶν μετεχείρισας χρημάτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.142, compare 143; οὔτε χρήματα διαχειρίσας τῆς πόλεως δίδωμι λ. αὐτῶν οὔτε ἀρχὴν ἄρξας οὐδεμίαν εὐθύνας ὑπέχω νῦν αὐτῆς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.26; λ. ἀπενεγκεῖν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 54.1; ἐν ταῖς εὐθύναις τοῦ τοιούτου λ. ὑπεχέτω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 774b; τὸν τῶν χρημάτων λ. παρὰ τούτων λαμβάνειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.47; ἀδικήματα εἰς ἀργυρίου λ. ἀνήκοντα 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.60)]; συνᾶραι λόγον μετά τινος settle accounts with, [NT (NT.Matt.18.23, etc.)]; δεύτεροι λ. a second audit, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-6th c.AD: Codex Justinianus 1.4.26.1)]; ὁ τραπεζιτικὸς λ. banking account, Theo Sm.p.73 H.: metaphorically, οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην οὐδενὸς λ. βροτόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 477.)]
I.1.b public accounts, i. e. branch of treasury, ἴδιος λ., in Egypt, [Refs (“OGI” 188.2, 189.3, 669.38)]; also as title of treasurer, [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work]408.4, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.12; ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν λ. “IPE” 2.29 A (from Panticapaeum))]; δημόσιος λ., = Latin fiscus, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“OGI” 669.21 (Egypt, 1st c.AD))], etc. (but later, = aerarium, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-6th c.AD: Codex Justinianus 1.5.15); also Καίσαρος λ. “OGI” 669.30; κυριακὸς λ. [prev. work]18.)]
I.2 generally, account, reckoning, μὴ φῦναι τὸν ἅπαντα νικᾷ λ. excels the whole account, i.e. is best of all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1225 (Lyric poetry))]; δόντας λ. τῶν ἐποίησαν accounting for, i.e. paying the penalty for their doings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.100; λ. αἰτεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 285e; λ. δοῦναι καὶ δέξασθαι [prev. author] “Prt.” 336c, +others; λαμβάνειν λ. καὶ ἐλέγχειν [prev. author] “Men.” 75d; παρασχεῖν τῶν εἰρημένων λ. [prev. author] “R.” 344d; λ. ἀπαιτεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 30.15, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1104a3)]; λ. ὑπέχειν, δοῦναι, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.95; λ. ἐγγράψαι [prev. author] 24.199, +others; λ. ἀποφέρειν τῇ πόλει 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.22, compare “Eu. Luc.” 16.2, NT.Heb.13.17; τὸ παράδοξον τῶν συμβεβηκότων ὑπὸ λόγον ἄγειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.34.2)]; λ. ἡ ἐπιστήμη, πολλὰ δὲ ὁ λ. the account is manifold, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.9.4)]; ἔχων λόγον τοῦ διὰ τί an account of the cause, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 74b27)]; ἐς λ. τινός on account of, ἐς χρημάτων λ. [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.89.6, LXX.2Mac.1.14, “JRS” 18.152 (from Jerash))]; λόγῳ with genitive, by way of, [Refs (“Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 3.2.5. +others)]; κατὰ λόγον τοῦ μεγέθους if we take into account his size, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 517b27; πρὸς ὃν ἡμῖν ὁ λ. NT.Heb.4.13, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 31.123.)]
I.3 measure, tale [Refs 1st c.AD+ (compare(below 11.1), θάλασσα.. μετρέεται ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν λ. ὁκοῖος πρόσθεν 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 31; ψυχῆς ἐστι λ. ἑαυτὸν αὔξων [prev. author] 115)]; ἐς τούτου (i.e. γήραος) λ. οὐ πολλοί τινες ἀπικνέονται to the point of old age, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.99, compare 7.9)].; ὁ ξύμπας λ. the full tale, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.56, cf. NT.Phil.4.15)]; κοινῷ λ. νομίσαντα common measure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 746e)]; sum, total of expenditure, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).103.151 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; ὁ τῆς οὐσίας λ., = Latin patrimonii modus, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-6th c.AD: Codex Justinianus 1.5.12.20.)]
I.4 esteem, consideration, value put on a person or thing (compare infr. VI. 2 d), οὗ πλείων λ. ἢ τῶν ἄλλων who is of more worth than all the rest, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 39)]; βροτῶν λ. οὐκ ἔσχεν οὐδέν᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 233; οὐ σμικροῦ λ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1163: frequently in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, Μαρδονίου λ. οὐδεὶς γίνεται 8.102; τῶν ἦν ἐλάχιστος ἀπολλυμένων λ. 4.135, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 94; περὶ ἐμοῦ οὐδεὶς λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 87)]; λόγου οὐδενὸς γίνεσθαι πρός τινος to be of no account, repute with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120, compare 4.138)]; λόγου ποιήσασθαί τινα make one of account, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.33)]; ἐλαχίστου, πλείστου λ. εἶναι, to be highly, lowly esteemed, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.143, 3.146)]; but also λόγον τινὸς ποιεῖσθαι, like Latin rationem habere alicujus, make account of, set a value on, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 187, etc.: usually in _negative_ statements, οὐδένα λ. ποιήσασθαί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4, compare 13, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.14.9, etc.; λ. ἔχειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.62, 115; λ. ἴσχειν περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 87c; λ. ἔχειν περὶ τοὺς ποιητάς 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 107; λ. ἔχειν τινός 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.199, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1102b32, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 18)] (but also, have the reputation of.., see below[Refs 5th c.BC+ (VI. 2 e); ἐν οὐδενὶ λ. ποιήσασθαί τι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.50)]; ἐν οὐδενὶ λ. ἀπώλοντο without regard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 9.70; ἐν σμικρῷ λ. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 550a)]; ὑμεῖς οὔτ᾽ ἐν λ. οὔτ᾽ ἐν ἀριθμῷ Oracle texts cited in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.48)]; ἐν ἀνδρῶν λ. [εἶναι] to be reckoned, count as a man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.120)]; ἐν ἰδιώτεω λόγῳ καὶ ἀτίμου reckoned as.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Eusebius Myndius Philosophus “fragment” 59; σεμνὸς εἰς ἀρετῆς λ. καὶ δόξης 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.142.)]
II relation, correspondence, proportion,
II.1 generally, ὑπερτερίης λ. relation (of gold to lead), [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 418 = 1164; πρὸς λόγον τοῦ σήματος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 519)]; κατὰ λόγον προβαίνοντες τιμῶσι in inverse ratio, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.134, compare 7.36; κατὰ λ. τῆς ἀποφορῆς [prev. author] 2.109)]; τἄλλα κατὰ λ. in like fashion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 16, “Prog.” 17: with _genitive_, κατὰ λ. τῶν πρόσθεν [prev. work] 24; κατὰ λ. τῶν ἡμερῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 619; κατὰ λ. τῆς δυνάμεως 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.11; ἐλάττω ἢ κατὰ λ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 508a2, compare “PA” 671a18; ἐκ ταύτης ἐγένετο ἐκείνη κατὰ λ. [prev. author] “Pol.” 1257a31)]; compare εὔλογος: sometimes with ὁ αὐτός added, κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λ. τῷ τείχεϊ in fashion like to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.186)]; περὶ τῶν νόσων ὁ αὐτὸς λ. analogously, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 158d, compare “Prm.” 136b, +others)]; εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν λ. similarly, [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 353d)]; κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λ. in the same ratio, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.76.8)]; by parity of reasoning, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 393c, “R.” 610a, +others)]; ἀνὰ λόγον τινός, τινί, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ti.” 29c, Alcaeus2.145d)]; τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν λ. πρὸς.. ὃν ἡ παιδεία πρὸς τὴν ἀρετήν is related to.. as.., [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in primum Euclidis librum commentarius” p.20 F., +others)]
II.2 in Mathematics texts, ratio, proportion (ὁ κατ᾽ ἀνάλογον λ., λ. τῆς ἀναλογίας,[Refs 4th c.BC+ (Theo Sm. p.73 H.), 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus 2; ἰσότης λόγων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 113a31; λ. ἐστὶ δύο μεγεθῶν ἡ κατὰ πηλικότητα ποιὰ σχέσις 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 5 “Def.” 3; τῶν ἁρμονιῶν τοὺς λ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 985b32, compare 1092b14)]; λόγοι ἀριθμῶν numerical ratios, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Harmonica” p.32 M.)]; τοὺς φθόγγους ἀναγκαῖον ἐν ἀριθμοῦ λ. λέγεσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλους to be expressed in numerical ratios, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra)]Sect.Can. Proëm.: in Metre, ratio between arsis and thesis, by which the rhythm is defined, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Harmonica” p.34 M.; ἐὰν ᾖ ἰσχυροτέρα τοῦ αἰσθητηρίου ἡ κίνησις, λύεται ὁ λ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 424a31)]; ἀνὰ λόγον analogically, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 2)]; ἀνὰ λ. μερισθεῖσα [ἡ ψυχή] proportionally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 37a; so κατὰ λ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 319.6)]; πρὸς λόγον in proportion, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.30.3, 9.15.3 (but πρὸς λόγον ἐπὶ στενὸν συνάγεται)] narrows uniformly, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.9, cf. Diocl.fragment 171); ἐπὶ λόγον “IG” 5(1).1428 (from Messene).)]
II.3 Grammars, analogy, rule, τῷ λ. τῶν μετοχικῶν, τῆς συγκοπῆς, by the rule of the participles, of syncopated ope, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.75 Gaisf., 1.377 H.; εἰπέ μοι τὸν λ. τοῦ Αἴας Αἴαντος, τουτέστι τὸν κανόνα “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 4.328.)]
III explanation,
III.1 plea, pretext, ground, ἐκ τίνος λ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 515; ἐξ οὐδενὸς λ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 731; ἀπὸ παντὸς λ. [prev. author] “OC” 762; χὠ λ. καλὸς προσῆν [prev. author] “Ph.” 352; σὺν ἀφανεῖ λ. [prev. author] “OT” 657 (Lyric poetry, variant{λόγων}); ἐν ἀφανεῖ λ. 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.59; ἐπὶ τοιούτῳ λ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.124)]; κατὰ τίνα λ.; on what ground? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 366b)]; οὐδὲ πρὸς ἕνα λ. to no purpose, [Refs ([prev. author] “Prt.” 343d)]; ἐπὶ τίνι λ.; for what reason? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.2.19)]; τὸν λ. τοῦτον this ground of complaint, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.228)]; τίνι δικαίῳ λ.; what just cause is there? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512c)]; τίνι λ.; on what account? [NT (NT.Acts.10.29)]; κατὰ λόγον ἂν ἠνεσχόμην ὑμῶν reason would that.., [Refs ([prev. work]18.14)]; λ. ἔχειν, with personal subject, εἶχον ἄν τινα λ. I (i.e. my conduct) would have admitted of an explanation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 31b)]; τὸν ὀρθὸν λ. the true explanation, [Refs ([prev. work] 34b.)]
III.1.b plea, case, in Law or argument (cf. VIII. I), τὸν ἥττω λ. κρείττω ποιεῖν to make the weaker case prevail, [LXX+5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 18b, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1402a24, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1042 (_plural_); personified, [prev. work] 886, +others; ἀμύνεις τῷ τῆς ἡδονῆς λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 38a; ἀνοίσεις τοὺς λ. αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸν θεόν LXX.Exo.18.19)]; ἐχειν λ. πρός τινα to have a case, ground of action against.., [NT (NT.Act.19.38.)]
III.2 statement of a theory, argument, οὐκ ἐμεῦ ἀλλὰ τοῦ λ. ἀκούσαντας probably in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 50)]; λόγον ἠδὲ νόημα ἀμφὶς ἀληθείης discourse and reflection on reality, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.50)]; δηλοῖ οὗτος ὁ λ. ὅτι.. [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 7)]; οὐκ ἔχει λόγον it is not arguable, i.e. reasonable, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 466, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 62d, etc.; ἔχει λ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.32; οὐδεὶς αὐτὰ καταβαλεῖ λ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 202; δίκασον.. τὸν λ. ἀκούσας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 696b)]; personified, φησὶ οὗτος ὁ λ.[Refs ([prev. work] 714d, compare “Sph.” 238b, “Phlb.” 50a)]; ὡς ὁ λ. (i.e. λέγει) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1115b12; ὡς ὁ λ. ὁ ὀρθὸς λέγει [prev. work] 1138b20, compare 29; ὁ λ. θέλει προσβιβάζειν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.41, compare1.19 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἀκούσειε λόγου ἀποτρέποντος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1179b27; λ. καθαίρων Aristo Stoic. 1.88)]; λόγου τυγχάνειν to be explained, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.77 K.)]; ὁ τὸν λ. μου ἀκούων my teaching, [NT (NT.John.5.24)]; ὁ προφητικὸς λ., collective, of [NT+5th c.BC+ (“VT” prophecy, NT.2Pet.1.19: _plural_, ὁκόσων λόγους ἤκουσα 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 108; οὐκ ἐπίθετο τοῖς ἐμοῖς λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 73)]; of arguments leading to a conclusion (ὁ λ.), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 46b; τὰ Ἀναξαγόρου βιβλία γέμει τούτων τῶν λ. [prev. author] “Ap.” 26d)]; λ. ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρχῶν, ἐπὶ τὰς ἀρχάς, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1095a31)]; συλλογισμός ἐστι λ. ἐν ᾧ τεθέντων τινῶν κτλ. [Refs ([prev. author] “APr.” 24b18)]; λ. ἀντίτυπός τε καὶ ἄπορος, of a self-contradictory theory, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.8.7.)]
III.2.b ὁ περὶ θεῶν λ., title of a discourse by Protagoras, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 9.54)]; ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺς λ., name of an argument,[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 23; ὁ αὐξόμενος λ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.559b)]; καταβάλλοντες (i.e. λόγοι), title of work by Protagoras, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.60; λ. σοφιστικοί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 165a34, +others; οἱ μαθηματικοὶ λ. [prev. author] “Rh.” 1417a19, etc.)]; οἱ ἐξωτερικοὶ λ., current outside the Lyceum, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 217b31, +others)]; Δισσοὶ λ., title of a philosophical treatise (= [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Dialexeis 5th c.BC”))]; Λ. καὶ Λογίνα, name of play of Epicharmus, quibble, argument, personified, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.338d.)]
III.2.c in Logic, proposition, whether as premiss or conclusion, πρότασίς ἐστι λ. καταφατικὸς ἢ ἀποφατικός τινος κατά τινος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 24a16.)]
III.2.d rule, principle, law, as embodying the result of λογισμός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.22, “P.” 1.35, “N.” 4.31; πείθεσθαι τῷ λ. ὃς ἄν μοι λογιζομένῳ βέλτιστος φαίνηται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 46b)], compare c; ἡδονὰς τοῖς ὀρθοῖς λ. ἑπομένας obeying right principles, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 696c)]; προαιρέσεως [ἀρχὴ] ὄρεξις καὶ λ. ὁ ἕνεκά τινος principle directed to an end, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1139a32)]; of the final cause, ἀρχὴ ὁ λ. ἔν τε τοῖς κατὰ τέχνην καὶ ἐν τοῖς φύσει συνεστηκόσιν [Refs ([prev. author] “PA” 639b15)]; ἀποδιδόασι τοὺς λ. καὶ τὰς αἰτίας οὗ ποιοῦσι ἑκάστου[Refs ([prev. work] 18; [τέχνη] ἕξις μετὰ λ. ἀληθοῦς ποιητική [prev. author] “EN” 1140a10)]; ὀρθὸς λ. true principle, right rule, [Refs ([prev. work] 1144b27, 1147b3, +others)]; κατὰ λόγον by rule, consistently, ὁ κατὰ λ. ζῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 689d, compare “Ti.” 89d)]; τὸ κατὰ λ. ζῆν, opposed to κατὰ πάθος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1169a5)]; κατὰ λ. προχωρεῖν according to plan, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.3.)]
III.3 law, rule of conduct, ᾧ μάλιστα διηνεκῶς ὁμιλοῦσι λόγῳ [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 72; πολλοὶ λόγον μὴ μαθόντες ζῶσι κατὰ λόγον 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 53)]; δεῖ ὑπάρχειν τὸν λ. τὸν καθόλου τοῖς ἄρχουσιν universal principle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1286a17; ὁ νόμος.. λ. ὢν ἀπό τινος φρονήσεως καὶ νοῦ [prev. author] “EN” 1180a21)]; ὁ νόμος.. ἔμψυχος ὢν ἑαυτῷ λ. conscience, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.780c)]; τὸν λ. πρόχειρον ἔχειν precept, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 30, compare 102; ὁ προστακτικὸς τῶν ποιητέων ἢ μὴ λ. κοινός 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 4.4.)]
III.4 thesis, hypothesis, provisional ground, ὡς ἂν εἰ λέγοι λόγον maintain a thesis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 344b)]; ὑποθέμενος ἑκάστοτε λ. provisionally assuming a proposition, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phd.” 100a)]; τὸν τῆς ὁμοιότητος λ. hypothesis of equivalence, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 296a20.)]
III.5 reason, ground, πάντων γινομένων κατὰ τὸν λ. τόνδε [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 1; οὕτω βαθὺν λ. ἔχει [prev. author] 45)]; ἐκ λόγου, opposed to μάτην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Leucippus Philosophus 2; μέγιστον σημεῖον οὗτος ὁ λ. 5th c.BC: Melissus Philosophus 8)]; [ἐμπειρία] οὐκ ἔχει λ. οὐδένα ὧν προσφέρει has no grounds for.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 465a)]; μετὰ λόγου τε καὶ ἐπιστήμης θείας [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 265c)]; ἡ μετα λόγου ἀληθὴς δόξα (ἐπιστήμη) [Refs ([prev. author] “Tht.” 201c)]; λόγον ζητοῦσιν ὧν οὐκ ἔστι λ. proof, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1011a12; οἱ ἁπάντων ζητοῦντες λ. ἀναιροῦσι λ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Metaphysica” 26.)]
III.6 formula (wider than definition, but frequently equivalent thereto), term expressing reason, λ. τῆς πολιτείας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 497c)]; ψυχῆς οὐσία τε καὶ λ. essential definition, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 245e; ὁ τοῦ δικαίου λ. [prev. author] “R.” 343a)]; τὸν λ. τῆς οὐσίας[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 534b, compare “Phd.” 78d; τὰς πολλὰς ἐπιστήμας ἑνὶ λ. προσειπεῖν [prev. author] “Tht.” 148d; ὁ τῆς οἰκοδομήσεως λ. ἔχει τὸν τῆς οἰκίας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 646b3; τεθείη ἂν ἴδιον ὄνομα καθ᾽ ἕκαστον τῶν λ. [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1006b5, compare 1035b4; πᾶς ὁρισμὸς λ. τίς ἐστι [prev. author] “Top.” 102a5)]; ἐπὶ τῶν σχημάτων λ. κοινός generic definition, [Refs ([prev. author] “de An.” 414b23)]; ἀκριβέστατος λ. specific definition, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1276b24; πηγῆς λ. ἔχον 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.477)]; τὸ ᾠὸν οὔτε ἀρχῆς ἔχει λ. fulfils the function of.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.637d)]; λ. τῆς μίξεως formula, i. e. ratio (compare supr. II) of combination, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 642a22, compare “Metaphorical” 993a17.)]
III.7 reason, law exhibited in the world-process, κατὰ λόγον by law, κόσμῳ πάντα καὶ κατὰ λ. ἔχοντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 500c)]; κατ τὸν [αὐτὸν αὖ] λ. by the same law, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 170.18; ψυχῆς τὸ πᾶν τόδε διοικούσης κατὰ λ. 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.3.13)]; especially in Stoic Philos., the divine order, τὸν τοῦ παντὸς λ. ὃν ἔνιοι εἱμαρμένην καλοῦσιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.24; τὸ ποιοῦν τὸν ἐν [τῇ ὕλῃ] λ. τὸν θεόν [prev. passage], compare 42; ὁ τοῦ κόσμου λ. 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.264)]; λόγος, ={φύσει νόμος}, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.169; κατὰ τὸν κοινὸν θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις λ. 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 7.53; ὁ ὀρθὸς λ. διὰ πάντων ἐρχόμενος 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.4: so in 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus, τὴν φύσιν εἶναι λόγον, ὃς ποιεῖ λ. ἄλλον γέννημα αὑτοῦ 3.8.2.)]
III.7.b σπερματικὸς λ. generative principle in organisms, ὁ θεὸς σπ. λ. τοῦ κόσμου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.28: usually in _plural_, “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.205,314, +others; γίνεται τὰ ἐν τῷ παντὶ οὐ κατὰ σπερματικούς, ἀλλὰ κατὰ λ. περιληπτικούς 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.1.7, compare 4.4.39: so without σπερματικός, ὥσπερ τινὲς λ. τῶν μερῶν 4th-3rd c.BC: Cleanthes Stoicus 1.111; οἱ λ. τῶν ὅλων 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.9.)]
III.7.c in Neo-Platonic Philos., of regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe, ὄντων μειζόνων λ. καὶ θεωρούντων αὑτοὺς ἐγὼ γεγέννημαι [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.8.4; οἱ ἐν σπέρματι λ. πλάττουσι.. τὰ ζῷα οἷον μικρούς τινας κόσμους [prev. author] 4.3.10, compare 3.2.16, 3.5.7)]; opposed to ὅρος, [Refs 5th c.AD+ ([prev. author] 6.7.4; ἀφανεῖς λ. τῆς φύσεως 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus)]in R.1.18 K.; τεχνικοὶ λ. [Refs ([prev. work]142 K., +others)]
IV inward debate of the soul [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (λ. ὃν αὐτὴ πρὸς αὑτὴν ἡ ψυχὴ διεξέρχεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 189e (διάλογος in “Sph.” 263e))]; ὁ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ, ὁ ἔσω λ. (opposed to ὁ ἔξω λ.), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 76b25, 27)]; ὁ ἐνδιάθετος, opposed to ὁ προφορικὸς λ., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.43, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.154),)]
IV.1 thinking, reasoning, τοῦ λ. ἐόντος ξυνοῦ, opposed to ἰδία φρόνησις, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 2)]; κρῖναι δὲ λόγῳ.. ἔλεγχον test by reflection, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 1.36)]; reflection, deliberation[Refs 5th c.BC+ ((cf. VI. 3), ἐδίδου λόγον ἑωυτῷ περὶ τῆς ὄψιος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.209, compare 34, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 583, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.7)]; μὴ εἰδέναι.. μήτε λόγῳ μήτε ἔργῳ neither by reasoning nor by experience, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 7; ἃ δὴ λόγῳ μὲν καὶ διανοίᾳ ληπτά, ὄψει δ᾽ οὔ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 529d, compare “Prm.” 135e; ὁ λ. ἢ ἡ αἴσθησις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1149a35, +others)]; αὐτῷ μόνον τῷ λ. πιστεύειν (opposed to αἰσθήσεις), of Parmenides and his school, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (Aristocles Epigrammaticus cited in 4th c.AD: Eusebius Caesariensis Scriptor Ecclesiasticus “Praeparatio Evangelica” 14.17: hence λόγῳ or τῷ λ.)] in idea, in thought, τῷ λ. τέμνειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 525e)]; τῷ λ. δύο ἐστίν, ἀχώριστα πεφυκότα two in idea, though indistinguishable in fact, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1102a30, compare “GC” 320b14, +others)]; λόγῳ θεωρητά mentally conceived, opposed to sensibly perceived, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Placita Philosophorum” 1.3.5, compare 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1055.20; τοὺς λ. θεωρητοὺς χρόνους 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.19U.)]; διὰ λόγου θ. χ.[Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work] p.10 U.; λόγῳ καταληπτός 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.20, etc.)]; ὁ λ. οὕτω αἱρέει analogy proves, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.33)]; ὁ λ. or λ. αἱρέει reasoning convinces, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.45, 6.124, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 48c)] (but, our argument shows, [Refs (“Lg.” 663d): also with _accusative_ _person_, χρᾶται ὅ τι μιν λ. αἱρέει)] as the whim took him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.132)]; ἢν μὴ ἡμέας λ. αἱρῇ unless we see fit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.127, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607b)]; later ὁ αἱρῶν λ. ordaining reason, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.50, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 2.5, compare 4.24, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.2.20, etc.: coupled or contrasted with other functions, καθ᾽ ὕπνον ἐπειδὴ λόγου καὶ φρονήσεως οὐ μετεῖχε)] since reason and understanding are in abeyance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 71d)]; μετὰ λόγου τε καὶ ἐπιστήμης, opposed to αἰτία αὐτομάτη, of Nature's processes of production, [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 265c)]; τὸ μὲν δὴ νοήσει μετὰ λόγου περιληπτόν embraced by thought with reflection, opposed to μετ᾽ αἰσθήσεως ἀλόγου, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ti.” 28a; τὸ μὲν ἀεὶ μετ᾽ ἀληθοῦς λ., opposed to τὸ δὲ ἄλογον, [prev. work] 51e, compare 70d, +others)]; λ. ἔχων ἑπόμενον τῷ νοεῖν [Refs ([prev. author] “Phlb.” 62a)]; ἐπιστήμη ἐνοῦσα καὶ ὀρθὸς λ. scientific knowledge and right process of thought, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Phd.” 73a; πᾶς λ. καὶ πᾶσα ἐπιστήμη τῶν καθόλου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1059b26; τὸ λόγον ἔχον [prev. author] “EN” 1102b15, 1138b9, +others: in _sing._ and _plural_, contrasted by 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus and 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus)] as theory, abstract reasoning with outward experience, sometimes with depreciatory emphasis on the former, εἰς τοὺς λ. καταφυγόντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 99e)]; τὸν ἐν λόγοις σκοπούμενον τὰ ὄντα, opposed to τὸν ἐν ἔργοις (realities),[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 100a; τῇ αἰσθήσει μᾶλλον τῶν λ. πιστευτέον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 760b31)]; γνωριμώτερα κατὰ τὸν λ., opposed to κατὰ τὴν αἴσθησιν, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 189a4)]; ἐκ τῶν λ. δῆλον, opposed to ἐκ τῆς ἐπαγωγῆς, [Refs ([prev. author] “Mete.” 378b20)]; ἡ τῶν λ. πίστις, opposed to ἐκ τῶν ἔργων φανερόν, [Refs ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1326a29; ἡ πίστις οὐ μόνον ἐπὶ τῆς αἰσθήσεως ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ λ. [prev. author] “Ph.” 262a19; μαρτυρεῖ τὰ γιγνόμενα τοῖς λ. [prev. author] “Pol.” 1334a6)]; ὁ μὲν λ. τοῦ καθόλου, ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις τοῦ κατὰ μέρος explanation, opposed to perception, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 189a7)]; ἔσονται τοῖς λ. αἱ πράξεις ἀκόλουθοι theory, opposed to practice, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 25)]; in Logic, of discursive reasoning, opposed to intuition, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1142a26, 1143b1)]; reasoning in general, [Refs ([prev. work] 1149a26)]; πᾶς λ. καὶ πᾶσα ἀπόδειξις all reasoning and demonstration, [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1063b10; λ. καὶ φρόνησιν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.105 K.; ὁ λ. ἢ λογισμός [prev. passage]; τὸ ἰδεῖν οὐκέτι λ., ἀλλὰ μεῖζον λόγου καὶ πρὸ λόγου)], of mystical vision, opposed to reasoning, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.9.10.)] —Phrases, κατὰ λ. τὸν εἰκότα by probable reasoning, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 30b; οὔκουν τόν γ᾽ εἰκότα λ. ἂν ἔχοι [prev. author] “Lg.” 647d)]; παρὰ λόγον, opposed to κατὰ λ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1429a29, compare “EN” 1167b19)]; compare παράλογος (but παρὰ λ. unexpectedly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 940).)]
IV.2 reason as a faculty, ὁ λ. ἀνθρώπους κυβερνᾷ [[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus] 256; [θυμοειδὲς] τοῦ λ. κατήκοον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 70a; [θυμὸς] ὑπὸ τοῦ λ. ἀνακληθείς [prev. author] “R.” 440d; σύμμαχον τῷ λ. τὸν θυμόν [prev. work] b; πειθαρχεῖ τῷ λ. τὸ τοῦ ἐγκρατοῦς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1102b26)]; ἄλλο τι παρὰ τὸν λ. πεφυκός, ὃ μάχεται τῷ λ.[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 17; ἐναντίωσις λόγου πρὸς ἐπιθυμίας 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.7.13(8); οὐ θυμός, οὐκ ἐπιθυμία, οὐδὲ λ. οὐδέ τις νόησις [prev. author] 6.9.11: frequently in Stoic. Philos. of human “Reason”, opposed to φαντασία, 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.39)]; opposed to φύσις, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.206; οὐ σοφία οὐδὲ λ. ἐστὶν ἐν [τοῖς ζῴοις] [prev. passage]; τοῖς ἀλόγοις ζῴοις ὡς λ. ἔχων λ. μὴ ἔχουσι χρῶ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 6.23; ὁ λ. κοινὸν πρὸς τοὺς θεούς 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.3.3; οἷον [εἰκὼν] λ. ὁ ἐν προφορᾷ λόγου τοῦ ἐν ψυχῇ, οὕτω καὶ αὐτὴ λ. νοῦ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.1.3)]; τὸ τὸν λ. σχεῖν τὴν οἰκείαν ἀρετήν (i.e. εὐδαιμονίαν) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Timaeum commentarii” 3.334 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; also of the reason which pervades the universe, θεῖος λ. [[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus] 257; τὸν θεῖον λ. καθ᾽ Ἡράκλειτον δι᾽ ἀναπνοῆς σπάσαντες νοεροὶ γινόμεθα 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.129 (compare below x).)]
IV.2.b creative reason, ἀδύνατον ἦν λόγον μὴ οὐκ ἐπὶ πάντα ἐλθεῖν [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.2.14; ἀρχὴ οὖν λ. καὶ πάντα λ. καὶ τὰ γινόμενα κατ᾽ αὐτόν [prev. author] 3.2.15; οἱ λ. πάντες ψυχαί [prev. author] 3.2.18.)]
V continuous statement, narrative (whether fact or fiction), oration, etc. (compare λέγω (B) [Refs (11.2),)]
V.1 fable, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.141; Αἰσώπου λόγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 60d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1393b8; ὁ τοῦ κυνὸς λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.7.13.)]
V.2 legend, ἱρὸς λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.62, compare 47, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.80 (_plural_); συνθέντες λ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 297; λ. θεῖος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 85d)]; ἱεροὶ λ., of Orphic rhapsodies, [Refs (10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus S.V. Ὀρφεύς.)]
V.3 tale, story, ἄλλον ἔπειμι λ. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 7.1, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.97, etc.; συνθέτους λ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 686)]; σπουδὴν λόγου urgent tidings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 663)]; ἄλλος λ. 'another story', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 34e)]; ὁμολογούμενος ὁ λ. ἐστίν the story is consistent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.27)]: plural, histories, ἐν τοῖσι Ἀσσυρίοισι λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.184, compare 106, 2.99)]; so in singular, a historical work, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.123, 6.19, 7.152)]: also in singular, one section of such a work (like later βίβλος), [Refs ([prev. author] 2.38, 6.39, cf. VI. 3d)]; so in plural, ἐν τοῖσι Λιβυκοῖσι λ. [Refs ([prev. author] 2.161, compare 1.75, 5.22, 7.93, 213)]; ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν λ. [Refs ([prev. author] 5.36)]; ὁ πρῶτος λ., of St. Luke's gospel, [NT+5th c.BC+ (NT.Act.1.1: in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, opposed to μῦθος)], as history to legend, [Refs (“Ti.” 26e; ποιεῖν μύθους ἀλλ᾽ οὐ λόγους “Phd.” 61b, compare “Grg.” 523a (but μῦθον λέγειν, opposed to λόγῳ)] (argument) διεξελθεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Prt.” 320c, compare 324d); περὶ λόγων καὶ μύθων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1336a30; ὁ λ... μῦθός ἐστι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.34.)]
V.4 speech, delivered in court, assembly, etc., χρήσομαι τῇ τοῦ λ. τάξει ταύτῃ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.57, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1358a38; δικανικοὶ λ. [prev. author] “EN” 1181a4; τρία γένη τῶν λ. τῶν ῥητορικῶν, συμβουλευτικόν, δικανικόν, ἐπιδεικτικόν [prev. author] “Rh.” 1358b7; τῷ γράψαντι τὸν λ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 17.8, compare λογογράφος 11)]; ἐπιτάφιος λ. funeral oration, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 236b)]; especially of the body of a speech, opposed to ἐπίλογος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1420b3; opposed to προοίμιον, [prev. work] 1415a12)]; body of a law, opposed to proem, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 723b)]; spoken, opposed to written word, τὸν τοῦ εἰδότος λ. ζῶντα καὶ ἔμψυχον οὗ ὁ γεγραμμένος εἴδωλόν τι [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 276a)]; ὁ ἐκ τοῦ βιβλίου ῥηθεὶς [λ.] speech read from a roll, [Refs ([prev. work] 243c)]; published speech, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 40.54)]; rarely of the speeches in Tragedy (ῥήσεις), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1450b6, 9.)]
VI verbal expression or utterance (compare λέγω (B) [Refs (111), rarely a single)]word, see below b, never in Grammars signification of vocable (ἔπος, λέξις, ὄνομα, ῥῆμα), usually of a phrase, cf. I[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 3 (the only sense found in _Epic dialect_).)]
VI.a plural, without Article, talk, τὸν ἔτερπε λόγοις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.393; αἱμύλιοι λ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.56, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 317, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 890, “Op.” 78, 789, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 704, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1141)]; ψευδεῖς Λ., personified, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 229; ἀφροδίσιοι λ. 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.91; ἀγανοῖσι λ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.101)]; ὄψον δὲ λ. φθονεροῖσιν tales, [Refs ([prev. author] “N.” 8.21)]; σμικροὶ λ. brief words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1268 (assuming variant), “El.” 415)]; δόκησις ἀγνὼς λόγων bred of talk, [Refs ([prev. author] “OT” 681 (Lyric poetry): also in _sing._, λέγ᾽ εἴ σοι τῷ λ. τις ἡδονή)] speak if thou delightest in talking, [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 891.)]
VI.b singular, expression, phrase, πρὶν εἰπεῖν ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακὸν λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ant.” 1245, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 514; μυρίας ὡς εἰπεῖν λόγῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37)]; μακρὸς λ. rigmarole, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 189, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1091a8)]; λ. ἠρέμα λεχθεὶς διέθηκε τὸ πόρρω a whispered message, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.9.3)]; ἑνὶ λόγῳ to sum up, in brief phrase, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241e, “Phd.” 65d)]; concisely, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1103b21)] (but also, ={ἁπλῶς, περὶ πάντων ἑνὶ λ}. [Refs ([prev. author] “GC” 325a1): _plural_, λ. θελκτήριοι)] magic words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 478)]; rarely of single words, λ. εὐσύνθετος οἷον τὸ χρονοτριβεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1406a36)]; οὐκ ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῇ λ. answered her not a word, [NT (NT.Matt.15.23.)]
VI.c coupled or contrasted with words expressed or understood signifying act, fact, truth, etc., mostly in a depreciatory sense, λ. ἔργου σκιή [Refs 6th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 145; ὥσπερ μικρὸν παῖδα λόγοις μ᾽ ἀπατᾷς 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 254)]; λόγῳ, opposed to ἔργῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 82, etc.; νηπίοισι οὐ λ. ἀλλὰ ξυμφορὴ διδάσκαλος [prev. author] 76; ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 338, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 59, “OC” 782; λόγῳ μὲν λέγουσι.. ἔργῳ δὲ οὐκ ἀποδεικνῦσι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.8; οὐ λόγων, φασίν, ἡ ἀγορὴ δεῖται, χαλκῶν δέ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.49; οὔτε λ. οὔτε ἔργῳ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.14)]; λόγοις, opposed to ψήφῳ, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.33)]; opposed to νόῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.100; οὐ λόγῳ μαθών 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 5; ἐκ λόγων, κούφου πράγματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 935a)]; λόγοισι εἰς τὸ πιθανὸν περιπεπεμμένα[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 886e, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 19; ἵνα μὴ λ. οἴησθε εἶναι, ἀλλ᾽ εἰδῆτε τὴν ἀλήθειαν 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 23, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 30.34)]; opposed to πρᾶγμα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 146a4)]; opposed to βία, [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1179b29, compare 1180a5)]; opposed to ὄντα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 100a)]; opposed to γνῶσις, [NT (NT.2Cor.11.6)]; λόγῳ in pretence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.205, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 361b, 376d, “Ti.” 27a, +others)]; λόγου ἕνεκα merely as a matter of words, ἄλλως ἕνεκα λ. ἐλέγετο [Refs ([prev. author] “Cri.” 46d)]; λόγου χάριν, opposed to ὡς ἀληθῶς, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1280b8)]; but also, let us say, for instance, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “EN” 1144a33, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.46.4, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 29, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 4.32)]; λόγου ἕνεκα let us suppose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 191c)]; ἕως λόγου, μέχρι λ., = Latin verbo tenus, [NT+5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.24.7, 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 16: sometimes without depreciatory force, the antithesis or parallelism being verbal (compare 'word and deed'), λόγῳ τε καὶ σθένει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 68; ἔν τε ἔργῳ καὶ λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 382e, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.101, NT.Luke.24.19, NT.Act.7.22, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.16.2)]; ὅσα μὲν λόγῳ εἶπον, opposed to τὰ ἔργα τῶν πραχθέντων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.22.)]
VI.2 common talk, report, tradition, ὡς λ. ἐν θνητοῖσιν ἔην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (Batrachomyomachia 8; λ. ἐκ πατέρων 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 71; οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἔτυμος λ. οὗτος 7th-6th c.BC: Stesichorus Lyricus 32; διξὸς λέγεται λ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.32; λ. ὑπ᾽ Αἰγυπτίων λεγόμενος [prev. author] 2.47)]; νέον [λ.] tidings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1289 (Lyric poetry))]; τὰ μὲν αὐτοὶ ὡρῶμεν, τὰ δὲ λόγοισι ἐπυνθανόμεθα by hearsay, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.148: also in _plural_, ἐν γράμμασιν λόγοι κείμενοι)] traditions, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 886b.)]
VI.2.b rumour, ἐπὶ παντὶ λ. ἐπτοῆσθαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 87)]; αὐδάεις λ. voice of rumour, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 14.44)]; περὶ θεῶν διῆλθεν ὁ λ. ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.46)]; λ. παρεῖχεν ὡς.. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.89.3)]; ἐξῆλθεν ὁ λ. οὗτος εῖς τινας ὅτι.. [NT (NT.John.21.23, cf. NT.Act.11.22)]; fiction, [NT (NT.Matt.28.15.)]
VI.2.c mention, notice, description, οὐκ ὕει λόγου ἄξιον οὐδέν worth mentioning, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.24.8, etc.)]; ἔργα λόγου μέζω beyond expression, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.35)]; κρεῖσσον λόγου τὸ εἶδος τῆς νόσου beyond description, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.50; μείζω ἔργα ἢ ὡς τῷ λ. τις ἂν εἴποι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.11.)]
VI.2.d the talk one occasions, repute, mostly in good sense, good report, praise, honour [Refs 6th c.BC+ (compare(above 1.4), πολλὰ φέρειν εἴωθε λ... πταίσματα 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1221; λ. ἐσλὸν ἀκοῦσαι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).13; πλέονα.. λ. Ὀδυσσέος ἢ πάθαν [prev. author] “N.” 7.21; ἵνα λ. σε ἔχῃ πρὸς ἀνθρώπων ἀγαθός 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.5, compare 9.78)]; Τροίαν.. ἧς ἁπανταχοῦ λ. whose fame, story fills the world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 517; οὐκ ἂν ἦν λ. σέθεν [prev. author] “Med.” 541)]: less frequently in bad sense, evil report, λ. κακόθρους, κακός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 138 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 165: _plural_, λόγους ψιθύρους πλάσσων)] slanders, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 148 (_anapaest meter_).)]
VI.2.e λ. ἐστί, ἔχει, κατέχει, the story goes, with accusative et infinitive, ἔστι τις λ. τὰν Ἀρετὰν ναίειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 58.1, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 417)]; λ. μὲν ἔστ᾽ ἀρχαῖος ὡς.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 1)]; λ. alone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 35; ὡς λ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 230, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 65c, etc.; λ. ἐστί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.129, 9.26, +others; λ. αἰὲν ἔχει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1573 (Lyric poetry))]; ὅσον ὁ λ. κατέχει tradition prevails, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.10: also with a personal subject in the reverse construction. Κλεισθένης λ. ἔχει τὴν Πυθίην ἀναπεῖσαι)] has the credit of.., [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.66, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 987b, 988b; λ. ἔχοντα σοφίας NT.Col.2.23, see.above 1.4.)]
VI.3 discussion, debate, deliberation, πολλὸς ἦν ἐν τοῖσι λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.59; συνελέχθησαν οἱ Μῆδοι ἐς τὠυτὸ καὶ ἐδίδοσαν σφίσι λόγον, λέγοντες περὶ τῶν κατηκόντων [prev. author] 1.97; οἱ Πελασγοὶ ἑωυτοῖσι λόγους ἐδίδοσαν [prev. author] 6.138; πολέμῳ μᾶλλον ἢ λόγοις τὰ ἐγκλήματα διαλύεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.140; οἱ περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης λ. 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.74)]; τοῖς ἔξωθεν λ. πεπλήρωκε τὸν λ. [Plato] has filled his dialogue with extraneous discussions, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1264b39; τὸ μῆκος τῶν λ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 7.131)]; μεταβαίνων ὁ λ. εἰς ταὐτὸν ἀφῖκται our debate, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1097a24; ὁ παρὼν λ. [prev. work] 1104a11)]; θεῶν ὧν νῦν ὁ λ. ἐστί discussion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 26b, compare “Tht.” 184a, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 8.32)]; τῷ λ. διελθεῖν, διϊέναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 329c, “Grg.” 506a, etc.)]; τὸν λ. διεξελθεῖν conduct the debate, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 893a)]; ξυνελθεῖν ἐς λόγον confer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1300: frequently in _plural_, ἐς λόγους συνελθόντες)] parley, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82)]; ἐς λ. ἐλθεῖν τινι have speech with,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 86; ἐς λ. ἀπικέσθαι τινί [prev. author] 2.32; διὰ λόγων ἰέναι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 916; ἐμαυτῇ διὰ λ. ἀφικόμην [prev. author] “Med.” 872; ἐς λ. ἄγειν τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.2; κοινωνεῖν λόγων καὶ διανοίας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1170b12.)]
VI.3.b right of discussion or speech, ἢ 'πὶ τῷ πλήθει λ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 66)]; λ. αἰτήσασθαι ask leave to speak, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.53; λ. διδόναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.20)]; οὐ προυτέθη σφίσιν λ. κατὰ τὸν νόμον[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1.7.5; λόγου τυχεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.13, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1095b21, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.52.1; οἱ λόγου τοὺς δούλους ἀποστεροῦντες 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1260b5; δοῦλος πέφυκας, οὐ μέτεστί σοι λόγου “Tragica Adespota” 304; διδόντας λ. καὶ δεχομένους ἐν τῷ μέρει 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 8)]: hence, time allowed for a speech, ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.26, +others; ἐν τῷ ἑαυτοῦ λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 34a; οὐκ ἐλάττω λ. ἀνήλωκε 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.9.)]
VI.3.c dialogue, as a form of philosophical debate, ἵνα μὴ μαχώμεθα ἐν τοῖς λ. ἐγώ τε καὶ σύ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 430d; πρὸς ἀλλήλους τοὺς λ. ποιεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Prt.” 348a)]: hence, dialogue as a form of literature, οἱ Σωκρατικοὶ λ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1447b11, “Rh.” 1417a20)]; compare διάλογος.
VI.3.d section, division of a dialogue or treatise (compare see[Refs 5th c.BC+ (3), ὁ πρῶτος λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 127d)]; ὁ πρόσθεν, ὁ παρελθὼν λ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Phlb.” 18e, 19b; ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις λ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 682a3)]; ἐν τοῖς περὶ κινήσεως λ. in the discussion of motion (i. e. [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Ph.” book, [prev. author] “GC” 318a4; ἐν τῷ περὶ ἐπαίνου λ. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.219)]; branch, department, division of a system of philosophy, τὴν φρόνησιν ἐκ τριῶν συνεστηκέναι λ., τῶν φυσικῶν καὶ τῶν ἠθικῶν καὶ τῶν λογικῶν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.258.)]
VI.3.e in plural, literature, letters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 365b, “Epin.” 975d, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 1, 21)] (but, also in plural, treatises, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.16c); οἱ ἐπὶ λόγοις εὐδοκιμώτατοι 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.1.4)]; Λόγοι, personified, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.171 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus).)]
VII a particular utterance, saying:
VII.1 divine utterance, oracle, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.59; λ. μαντικοί 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 275b; οὐ γὰρ ἐμὸν ἐρῶ τὸν λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20e; ὁ λ. τοῦ θεοῦ NT.Rev.1.2, 9.)]
VII.2 proverb, maxim, saying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.6, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 218; ὧδ᾽ ἔχει λ. [prev. work] 225)]; τόνδ᾽ ἐκαίνισεν λ. ὡς.. [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 21, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 330a, NT.John.4.37; ὁ παλαιὸς λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240c, compare “Smp.” 195b, “Grg.” 499c, “Lg.” 757a, NT.1Tim.1.15, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1082e, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 9, etc.; τὸ τοῦ λόγου δὴ τοῦτο 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.45, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 66.24, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JTr.” 3, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.56, etc.: _plural_, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1147a21.)]
VII.3 assertion, opposed to oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 651)]; ψιλῷ λ. bare word, opposed to μαρτυρία, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.54.)]
VII.4 express resolution, κοινῷ λ. by common consent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.141, +others)]; ἐπὶ λ. τοιῷδε, ἐπ᾽ ᾧ τε.. on the following terms, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.158, compare 9.26; ἐνδέξασθαι τὸν λ. [prev. author] 1.60, compare 9.5)]; λ. ἔχοντες πλεονέκτην a greedy proposal, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.158)]: frequently in plural, terms, conditions, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.33, etc.)]
VII.5 word of command, behest, [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 17, 40 (both _plural_), “Pers.” 363; ἀνθρώπους πιθανωτέρους ποιεῖν λόγῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 13.9; ἐξέβαλε τὰ πνεύματα λόγῳ NT.Matt.8.16)]; οἱ δέκα λ. the ten [LXX+1st c.AD+ (“Commandments”, LXX.Exo.34.28, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.496.)]
VIII thing spoken of, subject-matter (compare [Refs 6th c.BC+ (111.1 b and 2), λ. τοῦτον ἐάσομεν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1055)]; προπεπυσμένος πάντα λ. the whole matter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.21, compare 111)]; τὸν ἐόντα λ. the truth of the matter, [Refs ([prev. work] 95, 116)]; μετασχεῖν τοῦ λ. to be in the secret,[Refs ([prev. work] 127; μηδενὶ ἄλλῳ τὸν λ. τοῦτον εῐπῃς [prev. author] 8.65)]; τίς ἦν λ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 684 (={πρᾶγμα}, 699))]; περί τινος λ. διελεγόμεθα subject, question, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314c)]; [τὸ προοίμιον] δεῖγμα τοῦ λ. case, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1415a12, compare 111.1b)]; τέλος δὲ παντὸς τοῦ λ. ψηφίζονται the end of the matter was that.., [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.124; οὐκ ἔστεξε τὸν λ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.12.5; οὐκ ἔστι σοι μερὶς οὐδὲ κλῆρος ἐν τῷ λ. τούτῳ NT.Act.8.21; ἱκανὸς αὐτῷ ὁ λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512c)]; οὐχ ὑπολείπει [Γοργίαν] ὁ λ. matter for talk, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1418a35; μηδένα λ. ὑπολιπεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.146)]; πρὸς λόγον to the point, apposite, οὐδὲν πρὸς λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 42e, compare “Prt.” 344a; ἐὰν πρὸς λ. τι ᾖ [prev. author] “Phlb.” 33c; also πρὸς λόγου [prev. author] “Grg.” 459c (assuming variant).)]
VIII.2 plot of a narrative or dramatic poem, ={μῦθος}, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1455b17, +others)]
VIII.2.b in Art, subject of a painting, ζωγραφίας λόγοι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 6.10; λ. τῆς γραφῆς [prev. author] “Im.” 1.25.)]
VIII.3 thing talked of, event, μετὰ τοὺς λ. τούτους [LXX+NT (LXX.1Mac.7.33, cf. NT.Act.15.6.)]
IX expression, utterance, speech regarded formally, τὸ ἀπὸ [ψυχῆς] ῥεῦμα διὰ τοῦ στόματος ἰὸν μετὰ φθόγγου λ., opposed to διάνοια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 263e)]; intelligent utterance, opposed to φωνή, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1253a14; λ. ἐστὶ φωνὴ σημαντικὴ κατὰ συνθήκην [prev. author] “Int.” 16b26, compare 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.213)]; ὅθεν (from the heart) ὁ λ. ἀναπέμπεται [Refs (“Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.228)], compare 244; Protagoras was nicknamed λόγος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus cited in Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 600c, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus; λόγου πειθοῖ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 181)]: in plural, eloquence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.3, 9.11; τὴν ἐν λόγοις εὐρυθμίαν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sent.Pal.” 5p.69)] see d. M.; λ. ἀκριβής precise language, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 130 (_plural_), compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1418b1; τοῦ μὴ ᾀδομένου λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 398d)]; ἡδυσμένος λ., of rhythmical language set to music, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1449b25)]; ἐν παντὶ λ. in all manner of utterance, [NT (NT.1Cor.1.5)]; ἐν λόγοις in orations, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1459a13)]; λ. γελοῖοι, ἀσχήμονες, ludicrous, improper speech, [Refs ([prev. author] “SE” 182b15, “Pol.” 1336b14.)]
IX.2 of various modes of expression, especially artistic and literary, ἔν τε ᾠδαῖς καὶ μύθοις καὶ λόγοις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 664a; ἐν λόγῳ καὶ ἐν ᾠδαῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.25, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835b)]; prose, opposed to ποίησις, [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 390a)]; opposed to ψιλομετρία, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1448a11; opposed to ἔμμετρα, [prev. work] 1450b15 (_plural_))]; τῷ λ. τοῦτο τῶν μέτρων (i.e. τὸ ἰαμβεῖον) ὁμοιότατον εἶναι [Refs ([prev. author] “Rh.” 1404a31)]; in full, ψιλοὶ λ. prose, [Refs ([prev. work] b33 (but ψιλοὶ λ., =)]arguments without diagrams, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 165a))]; λ. πεζοί, opposed to ποιητική, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 6)]; opposed to ποιήματα,[Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work] 15; κοινὰ καὶ ποιημάτων καὶ λόγων 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.7; πεζὸς λ. [prev. work] 27, +others)]
IX.2.b of the constituents of lyric or dramatic poetry, words, τὸ μέλος ἐκ τριῶν.. λόγου τε καὶ ἁρμονίας καὶ ῥυθμοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 398d)]; opposed to πρᾶξις, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1454a18)]; dramatic dialogue, opposed to τὰ τοῦ χοροῦ, [Refs ([prev. work] 1449a17.)]
IX.3 Grammars, phrase, complex term, opposed to ὄνομα, [Refs ([prev. author] “SE” 165a13)]; λ. ὀνοματώδης noun-phrase, [Refs ([prev. author] “APo.” 93b30, compare “Rh.” 1407b27)]; expression, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 2, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 92.)]
IX.3.b sentence, complete statement, ἄνθρωπος μανθάνει λόγον εἶναί φῃς.. ἐλάχιστόν τε καὶ πρῶτον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 262c; λ. αὐτοτελής 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 3.6, 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.1)]; ῥηθῆναι λόγῳ to be expressed in a sentence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 202b)]; λ. ἔχειν to be capable of being so expressed,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 201e, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1404b26.)]
IX.3.c language, τὰ τοῦ λ. μέρη parts of speech, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.31, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.350, etc.; τὰ μόρια τοῦ λ. 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 6; μέρος λ. 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 633.26, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 4.6, +others)] (but ἓν μέρος [τοῦ codex] λόγου one word, [Refs ([prev. author] “Synt.” 340.10, compare 334.22))]; περὶ τῶν στοιχείων τοῦ λ., title of work by Chrysippus.
X the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government, ὁ παντοδύναμός σου λ. [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Wis.18.15; ὁ ἐκ νοὸς φωτεινὸς λ. υἱὸς θεοῦ “Corpus Hermeticum” 1.6, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.376c)]; λ. θεοῦ δι᾽ οὗ κατεσκευάσθη [ὁ κόσμος] [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.162; τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ σοφίας· ἡ δέ ἐστιν ὁ θεοῦ λ. [prev. work] 56; λ. θεῖος.. εἰκὼν θεοῦ [prev. work] 561, compare 501; τὸν τομέα τῶν συμπάντων [θεοῦ] λ. [prev. work] 492)]; τὸν ἄγγελον ὅς ἐστι λ.[Refs ([prev. work] 122: in “NT”)] identified with the person of Christ, ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λ. [NT (NT.John.1.1, compare 14, NT.1John.2.7, NT.Rev.19.13; ὁ λ. τῆς ζωῆς NT.1John.1.1.)]