__II power, faculty, capacity, αἱ ἀμφὶ τὸ σῶμα δ. [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 14; αἱ τοῦ σώματος δυνάμεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 185e; ἡ τῆς ὄψεως δ. [prev. author] “R.” 532a; ἡ τῶν λεγόντων δ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive of things, capacity for, τῶν ἔργων [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309a35; τοῦ λέγειν [prev. author] “Rh.” 1362b22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοῦ λόγου, τῶν λόγων, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 578, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 94; δ. στρατηγική 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.84.6; δ. ἐν πραγματείᾳ [prev. author] 2.56.5; δ. συνθετική 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: absolutely, any natural capacity or faculty, that may be improved and may be used for good or ill, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 126a37, compare “MM” 1183b28. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 elementary force, such as heat, cold, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 16, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 646a14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ τοῦ θερμοῦ δ.[[[prev. work] 650a5; θερμαντικὴ δ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 60, cf. Polystr. p.23 W. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2.b property, quality, ἰδίην δύναμιν καὶ φύσιν ἔχειν [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 13, compare “Nat.Hom.” 5, “Vict.” 1.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of the natural properties of plants, etc., αἱ δ. τῶν φυομένων, τῶν σπερμάτων, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.14, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.11.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; productive power, τῆς γῆς [[ [prev. author] “Oec.” 16.4; μετάλλων [prev. author] “Vect.” 4.1 ] Refs]: generally, function, faculty, δύναμις φυσική, ζωική, ψυχική, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.635] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; περὶ φυσικῶν δ., title of work by Galen.
__II.2.c in plural, agencies, ὑπάρχειν ἐν τῇ φύσει τὰς τοιαύτας δυνάμεις (i.e. the gods) Polystr.p.10 W.
__II.2.d function, meaning, of part in whole, [[ [prev. author] p.17 W. ] Refs]
__II.2.e in Music, function, value, of a note in the scale, δ. ἐστι τάξις φθόγγου ἐν συστήματι [[ 2nd c.AD: Cleonides Musicus “Introductio Harmonica - Musici Scriptores Graeci” 14, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus “Harmonica” p.69M. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μέση κατὰ δύναμιν, opposed to κατὰ θέσιν, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Harmonica - Opera Mathematica” 2.5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3 faculty, art, or craft, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 532d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1018a30, “EN” 1094a10, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. σκεπτική the doctrine of the Sceptics, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.4 a medicine, [[ 2nd c.BC: Timostratus Comicus 7, etc.; δ. ἁπλαῖ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ εὐσχημοσύνης” 9, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “χρονίων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.4, etc.; δ. πολυφάρμακοι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.403c, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.365] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, collection of formulae or prescriptions, [[ 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 10.33. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II.4.b action of medicines, περὶ τῆς ἁπλῶν φαρμάκων δ., title of work by Galen; also, potency, δυνάμει θερμά, ψυχρά, [[ [prev. author] 1.672, +others ] Refs]
__II.5 magically potent substance or object, [[ PMag.Leid.V. 8.12] Refs]: in plural, magical powers, [[ 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 4.7. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__III force or meaning of a word, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 394b, 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 12, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 31, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.b phonetic value of sounds or letters, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.47.8, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 12, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Jud.Voc.” 5, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__III.2 worth or value of money, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.46, 2.97, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 9, “Sol.” 15. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV capability of existing or acting, potentiality, opposed to actuality (ἐνέργεια), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1047b31, 1051a5, etc.: hence δυνάμει] Refs 4th c.BC+] as adverb, virtually, ὕστερον ὂν τῇ τάξει, πρότερον τῇ δυνάμει.. ἐστί [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.15 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐνεργείᾳ, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 86a28, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐντελεχείᾳ, [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 193b8, +others ] Refs]
__V in Mathematics texts, power, κατὰ μεταφορὰν ἡ ἐν γεωμετρίᾳ λέγεται δ. [[ [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1019b33 ] Refs]; usually second power, square, κατὰ δύναμιν in square, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 54b, compare “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 11, etc.: chiefly in _dative_, [εὐθεῖα] δυνάμει ἴση] Refs 5th c.BC+] a line the square on which is equal to an area, ἡ BA ἐλάσσων ἐστὶν ἢ διπλασίων δυνάμει τῆς AK the square on BA is less than double of the square on AK, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.9: εὐθεῖαι δ. σύμμετροι] Refs 3rd c.BC+] commensurable in square, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 10 “Def.” 2] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἡ δυνάμει δεκάς the series 12 + 22... + 102, [[ “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 64. ] Refs]
__V.c square of an unknown quantity [[(x2), 3rd c.AD: Diophantus Mathematicus “Def.” 2, +others ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__V.2 square root of a number which is not a perfect square, surd, opposed to μῆκος, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 147d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
