τόπος, ὁ (
feminine by attraction τόπον τὰν καλειμέναν Δαματρείαν [
Refs 2nd c.BC+],
place, region, first in [
Refs 4th c.BC+], afterwards frequently in all writers;
periphrastic, χθονὸς πᾶς τ, i.e. the whole earth, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν Ἑλλάδος τόποις in Greece,[
Refs]; πρὸς ἑσπέρους τ. towards the West, [
Refs]; πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνος τόπων before Salamis, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: so in Prose,
district, ὁ τ. ὁ Ἑλληνικός [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ τ. οὗτος, ἐν τούτοις τοῖς τ, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅλος τ. a whole
region, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ τῆς χώρας τ. the
places of a country, [
Refs] the
geographical position, [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
region, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ἅγιοστ, of Jerusalem, [
LXX]; the universe divided into three τόποι, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ κοινοὶ τ. public
sites or
buildings, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οἰκίαι καὶ τόποι houses and
sites, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; so ψιλοὶ τ.
sites not built upon, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
2)
place, position, οὐ τὸν τρόπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν τ. μόνον μεταλλάξαι [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὑπολιποῦ τ. leave a
space (in a document), [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τ. ἔχειν have a
place, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; φίλου τ. ἔχειν hold
the place of, [
NT+2nd c.BC+]; τ. ἔχειν also = have
room (to grow), [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; τόπῳ with
genitive,
in place of, instead of, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀνὰ τόπον on
the spot, immediately, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τόπου [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τ. [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; παρὰ τόπον at a wrong
place, [
Refs 1st c.BC+] by virtue of the
place and the time, [
Refs]
3)
place or
part of the body, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] in titles of works, e.g. περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων, περὶ συνθέσεως φαρμάκων τῶν κατὰ τόπου; especially ὁ τόπος,
pudendum muliebre, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
4)
place, passage in an author, κατὰ τόπους τινὰς τῆς ἱστορίας [
NT+2nd c.BC+]; the word is probably interpolated in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
5)
burial-place, [
NT]; also in codices of [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; later ὁ ἅγιος τ. is frequently of the
grave of a martyr, or of a
monastery associated with it, [
Refs 6th c.AD+]
6) in Egypt,
district, department, a entry-division of the νομός, ={τοπαρχία}, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; οἱ ἔξω τ. uncertain meaning in [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
7) a
room in a house, τόπον ἕνα ἄνευ ἐνοικίου [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; δύο τόπους ἤτοι συμπόσια [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
8)
position on the zodiac, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; especially the twelve
regions[
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
9) αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς καλεῖται τόπος, τῷ περιέχειν τὰ ὅλα [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
II)
topic, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2)
common-place or
element in Rhetoric, ὁ τοῦ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον τ. [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2.b) ={ὁμολογουμένου πράγματος αὔξησις}, Hermog [
Refs]
II.2.c) generally,
sphere, ὁ πραγματικὸς τ. [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
III)
metaphorically,
opening, occasion, opportunity, ἐν τ. τινὶ ἀφανεῖ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀργῇ διδόναι τ. [
NT+1st c.AD+]; δότε τ. τῇ ὀργῇ leave
room for the wrath (of God), i.e. let God punish, [
NT+2nd c.BC+]; τ. διδόναι τινί with
infinitive, give
occasion to, [
LXX]