αὔξ-ησις, εως, ἡ,
growth, increase, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 6; τῶν ἐχθρῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.69, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 13; κατὰ τὸ ποσόν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1069b11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Delta, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.13: in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus ] Refs 5th c.BC+], increments, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 546b] Refs 5th c.BC+]; multiplications, [[ 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.7. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 amplification, in Rhet., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1368a27, 1413b34; μετ᾽ αὐξήσεως ἐξαγγέλλειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.27.8, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 19 (_plural_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 Grammars, the augment, [[ EM 338.47.] Refs]