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τόπος

Alt. τόπος, ὁ,

I. "a place", Lat. locus, Aesch., etc.; periphr., χθονὸς πᾶς τόπος, i. e. the whole earth, id=Aesch.; Πέλοπος ἐν τόποις in Peloponnesus, id=Aesch., etc.; ὁ τόπος τῆς χώρας the "local circumstances" of the district, Dem.

2. "place, position", Aeschin.

3. "a place or passage in" an author, NTest., etc.

II. "a topic", Aeschin.: "a common-place" in Rhetoric, Arist.

III. metaph. "a place, occasion, opportunity", Thuc.