ἐπάγγ-ελμα, ατος, τό,
promise, profession, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.178 (_plural_); τὸ Πρωταγόρου ἐ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1402a25, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 319a; ὑπὸ τοῦ μεγέθους τοῦ ἐ. οὐδὲν θαυμαστὸν ἀπιστεῖν [prev. author] “Euthd.” 274a: _plural_, 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus cited in 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.88 S] Refs 5th c.BC+].; ἐπαγγέλματι, opposed to κατ᾽ ἀλήθειαν, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.182. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 subject of a treatise, that which it purports to contain, τὸ ἐ. τοῦ λόγου [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 33; τὸ ἐ. τοῦ συγγράμματος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tact.Praef.” 7. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 ={ἐπαγγελία} 7, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Crito Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.878, [prev. author] cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 15.16. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__4 art, profession, τὸ ἐ. τῆς ἀοτοποιΐας [[ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 3.2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]