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στασιώτης

στασιώτης, the members of a party

στᾰσι-ώτης, ου, ὁ, (στάσις B. III)
  • mostly in pl., members of a party or faction in a state, partisans, οἱ τοῦ Μεγακλέος σ. Hdt. 1.60, cf. 59, 173, al.; acting as a body-guard, Antipho Fr. 1.
      • 2 metaph. (with punning allusion to στάσις B. I.1), οἱ τοῦ ὅλου σ. the partisans of ‘The Whole’, opp. οἱ ῥέοντες, Pl. Tht. 181a; σ. τῆς φύσεως καὶ ἀφυσίκους, of Parmenides and Melissus, who denied motion, Arist. ap. S.E. M. 10.46.

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