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κρᾶσις

κρᾶσις, a mixing, blending, compounding

κρᾶσις εως, ἡ (Ion. κρῆσις Hp. Vict. 1.32): (κεράννυμι):—
  • mixing, blending of things which form a compound, as wine and water, opp. mechanical mixture (defined as an εἶδος μίξεως in which the constituents are liquids, Arist. Top. 122b26, cf. Stoic. 2.153; περὶ κράσεως, title of work by Alex.Aphr.): first in A., τὴν δευτέραν γε κ. ἥρωσιν νέμω Fr. 55, cf. Staphyl. 3, Ath. 10.426b (pl.); κράσεις ἠπίων ἀκεσμάτων modes of compounding . ., A. Pr. 482; ἡ τῶν ἐναντίων κ. Pl. Lg. 889c; τὴν τῶν νεύρων φύσιν ἐξ ὀστοῦ καὶ σαρκὸς κράσεως . . συνεκεράσατο Id. Ti. 74d; ἐκ κράσεως πρὸς ἄλληλα Id. Tht. 152d; τὴν ἁρμονίαν κ. καὶ σύνθεσιν ἐναντίων εἶναι Arist. de An. 407b31; χρωμάτων ἀκριβὴς κ. Luc. Zeux. 5, cf. Arist. Col. 792a4.
      • 2 temperature of the air, κρᾶσιν ὑγρὰν οὐκ ἔχων [αἰθήρ] E. Fr. 779.2; τὰς ὥρας κ. ἔχειν τοιαύτην ὥστε . . Pl. Phd. 111b, cf. Poll. 6.178; ἡ κ. τῶν ὡρέων temperate climate, Hp. Aër. 12; ὅσα περὶ κράσεις climates, Arist. Pr. lib. xiv tit.
      • 3 temperament, of the body or mind, κ. σώματος ib. 871a24, cf. 953a30; διανοίας ib. 909a17; κ. μελαγχολική ib. 954b8: pl., αἱ τῶν σωμάτων κράσιες Ti.Locr. 103a, cf. Plot. 3.1.6: so in Medic., Hp. Nat.Hom. 4, etc.; περὶ κράσεων, title of work by Galen.
      • 4 metaph., combination, union, κ. καὶ ἁρμονία τούτων ἡ ψυχή Pl. Phd. 86b, cf. 59a; μουσικῆς καὶ γυμναστικῆς κ. Id. R. 441e, etc.
      • 5 Gramm., crasis, i.e. the combination of the vowels of two syllables into one long vowel or diphthong, e.g. τοὔνομα for τὸ ὄνομα, ἁνήρ for ὁ ἀνήρ, τἆρα for τοι ἄρα, A.D. Adv. 128.2, EM 822.56, etc.; also, synaeresis of vowels, e.g. εὖ for ἐΰ, ib. 392.54; but opp. ἔκθλιψις and συναίρεσις, An.Ox. 1.371.

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