αἵρεσις (hairesis)
Short definition (LSJ): εως, ἡ, taking, esp. of a town,
Full entry: Lexicon.
26 occurrences of this form in 17 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Histories
- Laws
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Gorgias
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Olynthiac 1
- Histories (Books 3–9)
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 13
- The Jewish War, Book 7
- About the Planting of Noah
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- On the Posterity of Cain
- Menexenus
- Republic
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
Example passages
……τῶν τότε γενομένων καὶ μνημονεύσας ὅσας μυριάδας καὶ τίνας τόλμας καὶ πηλίκας παρασκευὰς ἡ τῶν σὺν νῷ καὶ μετὰ λογισμοῦ κινδυνευόντων αἵρεσις καὶ δύναμις καθεῖλεν.…
……νῦν λεγόμενα. ὡς μὲν οὖν γένοιτʼ ἂν ἐπιεικέστατα ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων ἡμῖν τὰ νῦν, εἰρήσθω, προελθόντος δὲ χρόνου καὶ μεινάσης τῆς πολιτείας, αἵρεσις αὐτῶν ἔστω τοιάδε τις· πάντες μὲν κοινωνούντων τῆς τῶν ἀρχόντων αἱρέσεως ὁπόσοιπερ ἂν ὅπλα ἱππικὰ ἢ πεζικὰ τιθῶνται καὶ πολέμου κεκοινωνήκωσιν ἐν ταῖς σφετέραις αὐτῶν τῆς ἡλικίας δυνάμεσιν·……
…προυχώρει δὲ αὐτοῖς οὔτε ἡ αἵρεσις τῆς πόλεως οὔτε τἆλλα τῆς παρασκευῆς ἀξίως· ἐπιγενομένη γὰρ ἡ νόσος ἐνταῦθα δὴ πάνυ ἐπίεσε τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, φθείρουσα τὴν στρατιάν, ὥστε καὶ τοὺς προτέρους στρατιώτας νοσῆσαι τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀπὸ τῆς ξὺν……