δ1573Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
Suppose someone should represent the ability of one of the persons to be avoided, as if in defining a thief or a sophist or a slanderer he would say that the slanderer is someone able to slander and to make friends into…
Δύναμις· εἴ τις τῶν φευκτῶν τινος τὴν δύναμιν ἀποδοίη· οἷον ἄν τις τὸν κλέπτην ἢ σοφιστὴν ἢ διάβολον ὁριζόμενος λέγῃ τὸν μὲν διάβολον τὸν δυνάμενον βάλλειν καὶ ἐχθροὺς ποιεῖν τοὺς…