A.theological,
philosophia
th.,
i.e. metaphysics, Arist.Metaph.1026a19,
cf. 1064b3; “genos”
Str.10.3.23;
“pragmateia”
D.H.4.62;
[muthoi]
Sallust.4; to
th.
Cleanth.Stoic.1.108; hoi
th.
Olymp.in Mete.129.19:
Comp. “-ōteros”
Dam.Pr.135. Adv. -kōs,
opp. “tragikōs,
apophainesthai”
pragma^t-eia , A.prosecution of business, diligent study, mataios p. logismōn] this idle attention to argumentations, great trouble, the business of dialectic,
hē dēmēgorikē p. the business of oratory, b. pl., works, of the buildings of Solomon, LXX 3 Ki.9.1.
4. magical operation, spell, “hē Solomōnos p.” study of drama
Apophainō , give evidence of a legitimate mode of living, show by reasoning, [beyond the sacred pages!]
B. Med., display something of one's own, “Mousan stugeran” A.Eu. 309; “kala erga” Pl.Smp.209e:, make a display of oneself, show off, X.Cyr.8.8.13.
II. apophainesthai gnōmēn declare one's opinion, “a. kineisthai ta panta” Id.Tht.168b:—Pass.,
ki_neō Hermes [mercury KAIROS] leading the souls, Od.24.5; simply, move, warrior about to attack,
2. remove a thing from its place, meddle with things sacred, change, innovate, “nomaia” Hdt.3.80
II. disturb, of a wasps'nest, having driven him in headlong flight,
Hdt. 3.80 After the tumult quieted down, and five days passed, the rebels against the Magi held a council on the whole state of affairs... But I have yet worse to say of him than that; he upsets the ancestral ways and rapes women and kills indiscriminately. [6] But the rule of the multitude has in the first place the loveliest name of all, equality, and does in the second place none of the things that a monarch does. It determines offices by lot, and holds power accountable, and conducts all deliberating publicly. Therefore I give my opinion that we make an end of monarchy and exalt the multitude, for all things are possible for the majority.”