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Strong's #4086 - πιθανολογία
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- speech adapted to persuade, discourse in which probable arguments are adduced
- in a bad sense, persuasiveness of speech, specious discourse leading others into error
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πῐθᾰνο-λογία, ἡ,
use of probable arguments, opp. demonstration ( ἀπόδειξις ), Pl. Tht. 162e, cf. Colossians 2:4, Gal. 17(1).619.
πιθανολογίᾳ, πιθανολογιας, ἡ (from πιθανολόγος; and this from πιθανός, on which see πειθός, and λόγος), speech adapted to persuade, discourse in which probable arguments are adduced; once so in classical Greek, viz. Plato, Theact., p. 162 e.; in a bad sense, persuasiveness of speech, specious discourse leading others into error: Colossians 2:4, and several times in ecclesiastical writers.
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* πιθανολογία , -ας , ἡ ,
(< πιθανός , persuasive, plausible),
in cl. (Plat),
the use of probable arguments, as opp. to demonstration (ἀπόδειξις ); hence, persuasive speech: Colossians 2:4 (v. ICC, in l).†
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P Oxy VIII. 1121.20 (A.D. 295) αἰσθῆτι πολυτειμοτάτῃ, ";some very cosily clothes."; The meaning ";much revered"; may be illustrated from the ii/iii A.D. hymn Kaibel 1027.30—
Ἴδη χαῖρέ μοι, ὦ ἰώμενος, ὦ πολύ [τει ]με,
π [α ]ῖ [ζε, Τελ ]εσφόρε.
Cf. Menander Frag. p. 33 πολύτιμοι θεοί, and similarly the verbal in BGU IV. 1208.19 (B.C. 27–6) παρὰ τοῦ πολυτιμήτου Ποίλ ̣ι ̣ος, and Menandrea p. 97.54 ὦ πολυτίμητοι θεοί.
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