παρά-δοσις, εως, ἡ,
handing down, bequeathing, transmission, τοῦ σκήπτρου [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; handing over, transfer, ἡ π. τῶν χρημάτων [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309a10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 915d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σίτου, etc., [[ “POxy.” 1257.3 (3rd c.AD), etc.] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; τῆς βασιλείας [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Comp. Lyc.Num.” 1 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἐν παραδόσει παραλαμβάνειν ἀεί, of a reserve fund, [[ “IG” 11 (2).161 A 126 (Delos, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 transmission of legends, doctrines, etc., tradition, διδασκαλία καὶ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 803a; πραγματεῖαι αἱ ἐκ π. ηὐξημέναι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 184b5; ἐν παραδόσει ἔχειν τι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.6.1, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; treatment, exposition, ὅπως πᾶσιν εὐπαρακολούθητος γένηται ἡ π. [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 73.12 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἡ βοτανικὴ π. the subject of botany, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Praef.” 1; παραδόσεις καὶ παραγγελίαι 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.78 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σύντομος π. succinct account, [[ 5th c.AD: Ammonius Philosophus “in Porphyrii Isagogen sive V voces - pars” 38.10. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__2.b in military sense, transmission of orders, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 21.2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 that which is handed down or bequeathed, tradition, doctrine, teaching, ἡ π. τῶν πρεσβυτέρων [[ NT.Matt.15.2, NT.Mark.7.3, etc.; αἱ π. τῶν θεῶν καὶ τῶν θείων ἀνδρῶν 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 265 ] NT+5th c.AD+]: also in Grammars, Ἑλληνικὴ π. [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Conjunctionibus;” 213.13, compare 19 (_plural_)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in textual criticism, defined as ἡ τῶν γραμματικῶν μαρτυρία, [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 815.18; so παρὰ τὴν π. γράφειν 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1012.34, compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 240.4, +others ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]