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διαφορ-ά , ἡ, (διαφέρω)
A.moving hither and thither, “πεσσῶν διαφοραί” moves, E.Fr.360.9.
2. dislocation, “τοῦ ὤμου” Heliod. ap. Orib.40.8.4, 49.9 tit.
II. difference, Th.3.10 (pl.), etc.; περί τι D.H. Comp.15; “θεοῦ πρὸς ἄνθρωπον” Plu.2.1075c; διαφορὰν ἔχειν to differ, Men.426.
2. in Logic, the differentia of a species, “ἐκ τοῦ γένους καὶ τῶν διαφορῶν τὰ εἴδη” Arist.Metaph.1057b7, cf. Top.139a29: hence in pl. of species or kinds, Id.Pol.1285a1, 1289a20, Thphr. HP6.4.5; “εἴδη καὶ δ.” Plu.2.719e; also “κατὰ διαφορὰν ποιός” Stoic.2.128,al.
III. variance, disagreement, Hdt.1.1; “δ. ἔχειν τινί” E. Med.75: pl., τὰς διαφορὰς διαιρέειν, καταλαμβάνειν, settle the differences, Hdt.4.23,7.9.“β́; δ. θέσθαι καλῶς” And.1.140; “διαφοραὶ πρός τινας” Pl.Phdr.231b; “δ. πρὸς ἀλλήλους περί τινος” Lys.25.10; “ἐν δ. καταστῆναί τινι” Antipho 1.1; “δ. φιλοσοφίᾳ καὶ ποιητικῇ” Pl.R. 607b.
IV. distinction, excellence, Id.Ti.23a; “ναυπηγίας” Plb.1.51.4.
V. advantage, profit, Antipho 2.3.3; πᾶν τὸ πῖπτον εἰς διαφορᾶς λόγον, valuables, Agatharch.102.
VI. vote, division, in an assembly, “δ. ποιήσασθαι” IG12(2).526a18 (Eresus).
VII. delay, PMagd.11.10 (iii B. C.).
VIII. “δ. διανοίας” being beside oneself, Dsc. Ther.7.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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