λῆψις, εως, ἡ
(later λῆμψις [[ “POxy.” 1088.45 (1st c.AD), etc.)] Refs 1st c.AD+], taking hold, seizing, catching, ῥύγχος.. πρὸς τὰς λ. τῶν ζῳδαρίων [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 662b9; αἱ καμπαὶ τῶν δακτύλων καλῶς ἔχουσι πρὸς τὰς λ. καὶ πιέσεις [prev. work] 687b10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀπορώτερος ἡ λ. the seizure of them will be more difficult, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.110 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ λ. τῆς πόλεως the seizure of it, [[ [prev. author] 4.114, compare 7.25. ] Refs]
__2 accepting, receiving, ἥδιστον ὅτῳ πάρεστι λ. ὧν ἐρᾷ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 356; ἡ τοῦ μισθοῦ λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 346d; opposed to ἀπόδοσις, [prev. work] 332b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀποβολαί (loss), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1362a35 (_plural_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: in plural, receipts, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 343d, Alcaeus1.123a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1122a13, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b taking of medicine, προλούσας πρὸ τῆς λ. [[ “POxy.” [prev. cited] ] Refs]
__II attack of fever or sickness, seizure, ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης λ. [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.6, compare “Morb.” 1.18, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 866a26. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III in Logic, assumption [[compare (λῆμμα 11), [prev. author] “APr.” 24a23, 24b11. ] Refs]