__III generally, a body, i.e. any corporeal substance, δεῖ αὐτὸ (i.e. τὸ ὄν) σ. μὴ ἔχειν [[ 5th c.BC: Melissus Philosophus 9; ἢ μέγεθός ἐστιν ἢ σ. ἐστιν 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista 3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἄψυχον, ἔμψυχον, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 245e, compare “Plt.” 288e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 265b29, +others; ὁ λίθος σ. ἐστι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Vit.Auct.” 25; φασὶν οἱ μὲν σ. εἶναι τὸν χρόνον, οἱ δὲ ἀσώματον 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 10.215 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κυκλικὸν σ., of one of the spheres, [[ 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.162b, +others] Refs 4th c.AD+]; τὸ πέμπτον σ. the fifth element, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus 12, “Placita Philosophorum” 1.3.22, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 4.132c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; metallic substance, [[ 6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus Alch.p.71 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 in Mathematics texts, figure of three dimensions, solid, opposed to a surface, etc., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 142b24, “Metaphorical” 1020a14, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV the body or whole of a thing, especially of complete parts of the body, τὸ σ. τῶν νεφρῶν [[ [prev. author] “HA” 497a9; τὰ σ. τῶν αἰσθητηρίων [prev. author] “GA” 744b24 ] Refs]; τὸ σ. τῆς γαστρός, τῆς κοιλίας, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.667,806; σ. παιδοποιόν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 17.42 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: generally, the whole body or frame of a thing, ὑπὸ σώματι γᾶς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 947 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ σ. τοῦ παντός, τοῦ κόσμου, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 31b. 32c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὕδωρ, ποταμοῦ σ. [[ 4th c.BC: Chaeremon Tragicus 17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ σ. τῆς πίστεως the body of the proof, i.e. arguments, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1354a15; τῆς λέξεως 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Ars Rhetorica” p.188 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] H.; of a body of writings, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 2.1.4 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; text of a document, opposed to ὑπογραφή, [[ “BGU” 187.12 (2nd c.AD),compare “PFay.” 34.20 (2nd c.AD) ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of a will, [[ “POxy.” 494.30 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]