χειρουργία

cheirourgia

working by hand, practice of a handicraft

Appears 7 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Statesman 4
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258d8
259e11
277c4
277c6
Gorgias 1
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450b7
Lovers 1
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135b7
Symposium 1
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203a6

Dictionary (LSJ)

χειρουργία, Ion. -ιη, ἡ, A. working by hand, practice of a handicraft or art, skill herein, Ar. Lys. 673, etc.; opp. γνώμη and γνῶσις (theory), Hp. Morb. 1.6, Pl. Plt. 259 e; opp. ξύνεσις, Id. Amat. 135b. II. ahandicraft or art, Id. Plt. 258d, 277c; τῶν ζωγράφων . . ἡ καλὴ χ. Anaxandr. 33.1: pl., περὶ τέχνας ἢ χειρουργίας τινάς Pl. Smp. 203a, cf. Grg. 450b. 2. esp. the art or practice of surgery, opp. the administration of medicine, χειρουργίῃ χρῆσθαι perform an operation, Hp. Prog. [23]; χειρουργίην ἐν γραφῇ διηγεῖσθαι the mode of operation, Id. Art. 33, cf. D.S. 5.74, Ph. 1.253, Dsc. 5.15, Ruf. ap. Orib. 8.24.7, Sor. 1.12, etc.

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