μάθησις (mathesis)
Short definition (LSJ): desire of learning, ἀλλά σοι μ. οὐ πάρα
Full entry: Lexicon.
31 occurrences of this form in 21 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Metaphysics
- Phaedo
- Protagoras
- Republic
- Memorabilia
- Library of History
- Discourses
- On the Mysteries
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Cratylus
- Gorgias
- Laches
- Laws
- Statesman
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- On the Education of Children
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Electra
Example passages
…οὐθὲν ἂν προϋπάρχοι γνωρίζων οὗτος. καίτοι πᾶσα μάθησις διὰ προγιγνωσκομένων ἢ πάντων ἢ τινῶν ἐστί, καὶ ἡ διʼ ἀποδείξεως καὶ ἡ διʼ ὁρισμῶν (δεῖ γὰρ ἐξ ὧν ὁ ὁρισμὸς προειδέναι καὶ εἶναι γνώριμα)· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἡ διʼ ἐπαγωγῆς. ἀλλὰ μὴν εἰ καὶ τυγχάνοι……
…εἶναι . καὶ μήν, ἔφη ὁ Κέβης ὑπολαβών, καὶ κατ’ ἐκεῖνόν γε τὸν λόγον, ὦ Σώκρατες, εἰ ἀληθής ἐστιν, ὃν σὺ εἴωθας θαμὰ λέγειν, ὅτι ἡμῖν ἡ μάθησις οὐκ ἄλλο τι ἢ ἀνάμνησις τυγχάνει οὖσα, καὶ κατὰ τοῦτον ἀνάγκη που ἡμᾶς ἐν προτέρῳ τινὶ χρόνῳ μεμαθηκέναι ἃ νῦν ἀναμιμνῃσκόμεθα.…
……ἐσόμενος, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ παιδείᾳ, ὡς τὸν ἰδιώτην καὶ τὸν ἐλεύθερον πρέπει.—πάνυ μὲν οὖν μοι δοκεῖ, ἔφη, τοιαύτη μᾶλλον εἶναι ἡ παρὰ Πρωταγόρου μάθησις. οἶσθα οὖν ὃ μέλλεις νῦν πράττειν, ἤ σε λανθάνει; ἦν δʼ ἐγώ.—τοῦ πέρι;—ὅτι μέλλεις τὴν ψυχὴν τὴν σαυτοῦ παρασχεῖν…