ὅρ-ᾱσις, εως, ἡ,
seeing, the act of sight, [[ 4th c.BC: Demades Orator 3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1174a14, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 123, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; distinguished as the ἐνέργεια or act from ὄψις (the sense or faculty), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 426a13, compare 428a7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but, power of sight, [[ “SIG” 1141 (from Thrace). ] Refs]
__2 plural, eyes, τὰς ὁ. ἐκκόπτειν [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.6, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.45, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.88d: _metaphorically_, as title of the daughter-goddess of the Sun, ὅρασιν αὑτοῦ (i.e. τοῦ Ἡλίου) “OGI” 56.56 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II a vision, [[ LXX.Joel.2.28, NT.Act.2.17 (_plural_). ] LXX+NT]
__III appearance, ὅμοιος ὁράσει λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι [[ NT.Rev.4.3; ὁ μεταμορφούμενος ἐν ταῖς ὁράσεσιν “PLeid.W.” 13.36. ] NT]