ὄρεξις, εως, ἡ,
(ὀρέγω) general word for all kinds of appetency, conation, including ἐπιθυμία, θυμός, βούλησις, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 414b2, compare 433a13, +others, “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.40, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 202, 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 831.16, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.78] Refs 4th c.BC+] K.; opposed to φυγή, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 431a12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἔκκλισις, [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.4.1, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 8.7. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__1 with genitive objecti, longing or yearning after a thing, desire for it, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 219, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 414b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119b7, “de An.” 414b6, +others: more rarely, ὄ. ἐπί τι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.48c; περί τι 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 72. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 absolutely, propension, appetency, ὄ. βουλευτική [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1113a11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὄ. διανοητική[[ [prev. work] 1139b5; [ἐπιθυμίαι τινὲς] εὐδιάχυτον τὴν ὄ. ἔχουσιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 26. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]