μέθεξις

methexis

participation

Appears 10 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Parmenides 6
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132d3
140e4
141d8
151e8
158b1
160a8
Sophist 2
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256b1
259a7
Phaedo 1
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94a2
Republic 1
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Book IX 1
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592a2

Dictionary (LSJ)

μέθεξις, εως, ἡ, (μετέχω) A. participation, οὐσίας μετὰ χρόνου participation of being in time, Pl. Prm. 151e; χρόνου in time, ib.141d; αἱ μ. τῶν ἀρχῶν Arist. Pol. 1278a23. II. in Platonic philosophy, participation in the ideas, ἡ μ. τοῖς ἄλλοις . . τῶν εἰδῶν Pl. Prm. 132d, cf. Arist. Metaph. 987b10; ταὐτοῦ in the same, Pl. Sph. 256b. III. in Logic, κατὰ μέθεξιν as being contained or comprehended, as genus or difference in species, Arist. Top. 132b35.

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