λῆμμα, ατος, τό,
(λαμβάνω) anything received, opposed to δόμα, [[ 3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus cited in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.182e] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; λ. καὶ ἀνάλωμα receipt and expense, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 920c, 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνενεγκεῖν (ἐν- Papyrus) ἐν λήμματι place to credit, [[ 5th c.BC: Elephantine Papyri 15.4 (3rd c.BC),compare “BGU” 1346.2 (1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: generally, gain, profit, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.12, etc.; λ. τι κέρδους [prev. author] 45.14 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially of unjust gain, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.45 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; παντὸς ἥττων λήμματος unable to resist any temptation of gain, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.339; ὥσπερ ἂν τρυτάνη ἐπὶ τὸ λ. ῥέπειν [prev. author] 18.298; λ. λαβεῖν [prev. author] 21.28, 27.39: frequently in _plural_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 313, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.25, etc.; τὰ λ. τοῦ ἀργυρίου [prev. author] 49.57; λημμάτων μετέχειν [prev. author] 58.40; τἀπὸ Θρᾴκης λ. ἕλκουσι δεῦρο 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 196. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in Logic, statement taken as true, assumption; especially premiss in a syllogism, ἐπὶ λ. τῷ τοιούτῳ [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 245.13; τὰ οἰκεῖα τῇ ἐπιστήμῃ λ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 101a14 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; λήμματα τιθέναι[[ [prev. work] 156a21, compare 2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 9.16, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.9 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; properly the major premiss (the minor being πρόσληψις), [[ Crinis “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.269] Refs]; later, ἀποδεικτικὰ λήμματα παρασχεῖν offer scientific proofs, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.627. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]