topos , ho (fem. by attraction

A. topon tan kaleimenan Damatreian IG 9(1).32.80 (Stiris, ii B.C.)), place, region, first in A. (v. infr.), afterwds. freq. in all writers; periphr., chthonos pas t., i.e. the whole earth, A. Eu.249; es ton Hellênôn t. Id.Pers.790 ; en Hellados topois in Greece, ib.796; en Aulidost. Id.Ag.191 (lyr.); Pelopos ent. Id.Eu.703 , cf. 292; pros hesperous t. towards the West, Id.Pr.350; prosthe Salaminos topôn before Salamis, Id.Pers.447; Thrêikês ek topôn E.Alc.67 ; Dirkaiôn ek t. Id.Ph.1027 (lyr.): so in Prose, district, ho t. ho Hellênikos Isoc. 5.107 , cf. Ep.1.8; ho peri Thraikên t. D.20.59 ; ho epi Thraikês t. Aeschin. 2.9 , 3.73; ho t. houtos, en toutois tois t., X.An.4.4.4, Cyr.2.4.20; holos t. a whole region, D.19.230; kata topous kai kômas Pl.Criti. 119a ; hoi tês chôras t. the places of a country, Id.Lg.760c, etc. (but ho t. tês chôras the geographical position, D.4.31; region, Pl.Lg.705c); ho hagiost., of Jerusalem, LXX 2 Ma.2.18 (cf. infr. 5); the universe divided into three topoi, Arist.IA706b3, Cael.312a8 (contrast PA666a15, etc.); hoi koinoi t. public sites or buildings, IG42(1).65.8 (Epid.); asulos t. BGU1053 ii 9 (i B. C.), PTeb.5.83 (pl., ii B. C.); oikiai kai topoi houses and sites, ib.281.12 (ii B.C.); so psiloi t. sites not built upon, OGI52.2 (Ptolemais, iii/ii B. C.).

2. place, position, ou ton tropon, alla ton t. monon metallaxai Aeschin.3.78 ; hupolipou t. leave a space (in a document), PCair.Zen.327.83 (iii B.C.); perikêpôi t. katalipein ib.193.8 (iii B.C.); t. echein have a place, D.H.Dem.23, Plu.2.646a; philou t. echein hold the place of . . , Arr.Epict.2.4.5; Merolas ho hairetheis hupatos eis ton tou Kinna t. D.S.38 /39.3; enegraphê eis tên hierôsunên eis ton Aeukiou Domitiou t. teteleutêkotos Nic. Dam.Fr. 127.4J., cf. D.H.2.73; anaplêroun ton t. tou idiôtou 1 Ep.Cor.14.16 ; t. echein also = have room (to grow), Thphr.HP1.7.1; topôi c. gen., in place of, instead of, Hdn.2.14.5; ana topon on the spot, immediately, E.Supp.604 (lyr., dub.l.); so en topôi IG12(7).515.63 (Amorgos); epi topou Plb.4.73.8 ; epi tôn t. PEnteux.55.5 (iii B. C.), UPZ70.16 (ii B.C.), CIL3.567.3 (Delph., ii B. C.), POxy.2106.23 (iv A. D.), etc.; kata ton auton t. S.E.P.3.1 ; para topon at a wrong place, Str.10.2.21, Arr.Epict.3.21.16 (but para t. kai para kairon by virtue of the place and the time, ib.3.21.14).

3. place or part of the body, Hp.Aph. 2.46, Loc.Hom.tit., Sor.2.40, al., Gal. in titles of works, e.g. peri tôn peponthotôn topôn, peri suntheseôs pharmakôn tôn kata topous; esp. ho topos, pudendum muliebre, Arist.HA572b28, 583a15, cf. Sor.2.62 (pl.).

4. place, passage in an author, kata topous tinas tês historias Plb.12.25f .1, cf. Ph.2.63, Ev.Luc.4.17, Sor.2.57,58, etc.; the word is prob. interpolated in X.Mem.2.1.20.

5. burial-place, IG12(7).401 (Amorgos), al., Ev.Marc. 16.6; also in codd. of E.Heracl. 1041 (fort. leg. taphon); later ho hagios t. is freq. of the grave of a martyr, or of a monastery associated with it, PMasp.94.18 (vi A.D.), etc.

6. in Egypt, district, department, a sub-division of the nomos, = toparchia, PMich.Zen.43.8 (iii B. C.), Theb.Ostr.27.2 (ii B. C.): but most freq. in pl., ho epi tôn t. stratêgos, praktôr, etc., PEnteux.27.9 (iii B. C.), PRein.7.17,35 (ii B. C.), etc.; hoi exô t. dub. sens. in PEnteux.87.2 (iii B. C.), BGU1114.6 (i B. C.), etc.

7. a room in a house, topon hena aneu enoikiou ib.896.4 (ii A. D.); duo topous êtoi sumposia POxy. 1129.10 (V A. D.), cf. 502.34 (ii A. D.), 912.13 (iii A. D.).

8. position on the zodiac, Vett.Val.139.13; esp. the twelve regions of 300, Ptol. Tetr.128, Heph.Astr.1.12.

9. autos ho theos kaleitai topos, tôi periechein ta hola Ph.1.630 , cf. Corp.Herm.2.12, Hippol. Haer.6.32.

II. topic, Isoc.5.109, 10.38, Aeschin.3.216, Plb.21.19.2, Phld. Rh.1.119S., etc.

2. common-place or element in Rhetoric, ho tou mallon kai hêtton t. Arist.Rh.1358a14 , cf. 1396b30, 1397a7; to auto legô stoicheion kai t. ib. 1403a18: pl., Phld.Rh.1.226S.

b. = homologoumenou pragmatos auxêsis, Hermog Prog.11; koinos t. ib.6.

c. generally, sphere, ho pragmatikos t. D.H.Comp.1 .

III. metaph., opening, occasion, opportunity, en t. tini aphanei Th.6.54 (but tropôi is prob. cj.); orgêi didonai t. Plu.2.462b ; mê didote t. tôi diabolôi Ep.Eph.4.27 ; dote t. têi orgêi leave room for the wrath (of God), i.e. let God punish, Ep.Rom.12.19; mê kataleipesthai sphisi t. eleous Plb.1.88.2 ; metanoias t. ouch heure Ep.Hebr.12.17 ; oude phugês topon eumoirêsantes Hld.6.13 ; t. didonai tini c. inf., give occasion to . . , LXX Si.4.5.

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