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θέσις, εως, ἡ,
(τίθημι) setting, placing, ἐπέων θ. setting of words in verse, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.8; πλίνθων καὶ λίθων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 333b, compare “IG” 7.3073.33 (Lebad.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. νόμων lawgiving, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 3.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 690d: in _plural_, νόμων θέσεις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.309, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1289a22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. ὀνόματος giving of a name, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 390d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπί τινος application of word to object, [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 145 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; θ. ἀγώνων institution of games, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.53 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ordinance, disposition, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 277 (only here in Trag.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; setting forth in legal form, ἀσφαλειῶν [[ “POxy.” 1027.12 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II laying down, ὅπλων, opposed to ἀναίρεσις, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 814a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of diggers, plunging of the spade, opposed to ἄρσις, [[ “Geoponica” 2.45.5. ] Refs]
__II.2 deposit of money, preparatory to a law-suit, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1191 (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, sum deposited in a temple, [[ “Inscription Délos” 365.14 (3rd c.BC), “IG” 12(3).322 (_plural_, Thera). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.3 pledging, giving as security, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 33.12, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 8.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 payment, τελῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425d (_plural_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III adoption of a child, κατὰ θέσιν υἱωνός [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.35.9, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.36, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 6.11; Κρινοτέλην Πινδάρου, θέσει δὲ Φιλοξένου “IG” 12(3).274 (from Anaphe), compare 12(7).50 (from Amorgos)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; adoption as a citizen of a foreign state, Ἁλεξανδρεὺς θέσει, Ἁθηναῖος θ. (opposed to φύσει), [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see at {Ἀρίσταρχος}, Ἀριστοφάνης Πόδιος. ] Refs]
__IV situation, of a city, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6; πόλις αὐτάρκη θ. κειμένη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.37, compare 5.7; ἡ θ. τῆς χώρας πρὸς τὰ πνεύματα 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.23.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τόπων θ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.41.7: Astron., θ. τῶν ἄστρων 5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.149A. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; position, arrangement, λεγομένων καὶ γραφομένων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 206a; τῶν μερῶν θέσεις [prev. author] “Lg.” 668e, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.11U., “fragment” 30 (_plural_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.2 in Mathematics texts, local position, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 322b33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔχειν θ. [[ [prev. author] “APo.” 88a34 ] Refs]; θ. ἔχειν πρὸς ἄλληλα to have a local relation, [[ [prev. author] “Cat.” 4b21, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 586c; τῇ θ. μέσον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 25b36: Geometry texts, θέσει δεδόσθαι or εἶναι] Refs 5th c.BC+], to be given in position, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.3, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Data” 4, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra “Conica” 2.46, +others] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; παρὰ θέσει parallel to a straight line given in position, [[[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra] “Dat.Def.” 15] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; εἰς δύο θέσεις τὰς AB, AT to meet the two straight lines AB, AT given in position, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Metrica” 3.10; κατὰ τὴν θ. τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 208b23, etc.; οὐ τῇ θ. διαφέροντα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ δυνάμει [prev. work] 22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; so in Music, of notes in a scale, κατὰ θέσιν, opposed to κατὰ δύναμιν, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Harmonica - Opera Mathematica” 2.5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__V Philos., thesis, position, assumed and requiring proof, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 335a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 104b19, “APo.” 72a15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θέσιν διαφυλάττειν to maintain a thesis, [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1096a2 ] Refs]; κινεῖν to controvert it, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.687b, compare 328a, etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__V.2 general question, opposed to ὑπόθεσις (special case), [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Aphthonius Rhetor “Προγυμνάσματα - Rhet.” 13, 1st-2nd c.AD(?): Theon Rhetor “Progymnasmata - Rhet.” 12, compare 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Topica” 21.79, 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus 3.5.5] Refs 1st c.BC+] (but θ. includes ὑπόθεσις and ὁρισμός, [[ 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Analytica Posteriora commentaria - pars” 35.1; opposed to ἀξίωμα, [prev. work] 34.9). ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__V.3 arbitrary determination, especially in dative θέσει, τὰ ὀνόματα μὴ θ. γενέσθαι [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.27U. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to φύσει, [[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.76, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.3.7, etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὰ θ. δίκαια, νόμιμα, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.50, 112 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; σημαίνειν θ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.256. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__V.4 affirmation, opposed to ἄρσις, [[[prev. work] 1.192, compare 2.244, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.5.6, etc. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__VI a setting down, opposed to ἄρσις (lifting), πᾶσα πορεία ἐξ ἄρσεως καὶ θέσεως συντελεῖται [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 885b6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: hence, in rhythm, downward beat, opposed to the upward (ἄρσις), [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 1.13, Bacchius Musicus “Εἰσαγωγὴ τέχνης μουσικῆς” 98, etc. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__VII in prosody, θέσει μακρὰ συλλαβή long by position, opposed to φύσει, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 632.30, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 1.3: originally probably in signification see. 3, cf. Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.206H. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__VII.2 θέσεις, αἱ, in punctuation, stops, Donat.in [[ “Grammars Latin” 4.372 K. ] Refs]
__VIII part of a horse's hoof, ἡ θ. τοῦ ποδός [[ “Hippiatrica” 82. ] Refs]
