ποί-ησις

ποί-ησις, εως, ἡ,

A fabrication, creation, production, opp. πρᾶξις (action, v. Arist. EN 1140a2, Pol. 1254a5), [ μύρου] Hdt.3.22;

νεῶν Th.3.2

, etc.;

ἡ τῶν ζῴων π. Pl.Smp. 197a

;

ἡ τῶν μελῶν π. Id.Grg. 449d

;

μίμησις π. τίς ἐστιν, εἰδώλων μέντοι Id.Sph. 265b

, etc.;

αἱ ὑπὸ πάσαις ταῖς τέχναις ἐργασίαι ποιήσεις εἰσί Id.Smp. 205b

.

2 of Poetry, ἡ τῶν διθυράμβων π., τῆς τραγῳδίας, τῶν ἐπῶν, Pherecr.145.10, Pl.Grg. 502a, 502b, R. 394c: abs., art of poetry,

οἱ ἐν π. γενόμενοι Hdt.2.82

, cf. Ar.Ra. 868, etc.;

οὕτως.. ἀταλαιπώρως ἡ π. διέκειτο Id.Fr. 254

; οἱ ἄκροι τῆς π. ἑκατέρας, i.e. tragedy and comedy, Pl.Tht. 152e;

ᾠδαὶ καὶ ἡ ἄλλη π. Id.Phdr. 245a

; π. ψιλὴ ἢ ἐν ᾠδῇ ib. 278c.

b poetic composition, poem,

ἐς ποίησιν ἐσενείκασθαι Hdt.2.23

, cf. Th.1.10, etc.;

περὶ ὧν Ὅμηρος τὴν π. πεποίηκεν Pl. Ion 531d

: pl., Id.Lg. 829e.

II = εἰσποίησις, adoption, in pl., Is.7.1, D.44.7, al.; κατὰ ποίησιν ibid., Michel836.5 (Didyma, ii B.C.);

ποιήσει υἱοί D.H.4.7

;

τῇ παρ' ὑμῶν π. πολίτης D.20.30

.

2 in collect. sense, those adopted,

τῆς π. ἣν ἐκεῖνος ἐποιήσατο Id.44.61

.

III method of procedure, in Magic, PMag.Par.1.1248.

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to do, to make, to produce, to poetize, to act', in midd. also `to choose, to deem, to appraise' (Il.).

Other forms: Aor. ποιῆσαι, fut. ποιήσω, perf. midd. πεποίημαι (all Il.), act. πεποίηκα, aor. pass. ποιηθῆναι (IA.), fut. ποιηθήσομαι (D.), πεποιήσομαι (Hp.).

Compounds: Often w. prefix in diff. senses, e.g. ἀντι-, ἐκ-, ἐν-, περι-, προσ-. As 2. member - ποιός in unlimited productive syntheta, e.g. λογοποιός m. `historian, fabulist, newsmonger' (IA.) with λογοποι-έω, - ία, - ικός, - ημα.

Derivatives: 1. ποίημα ( προσ-, περι-) n. `production, work, poem' (IA.) with - ημάτιον (Plu.), - ηματικός `poetic' (Plu.); 2. ποίησις ( προσ-, περι-, ἐκ- a.o.) f. `creation, production, poetry' (IA.); on the meaning of ποί-ημα, - ησις Ardizzoni Riv. fil. class. 90, 225 ff.. Chantraine Form. 287. 3. ποιητός ( προσ-, ἐκ- etc.) `made, produced' (Il.), also `made artificially, not naturally' = `adopted' (Pl., Arist.); Ammann Μνήμης χάριν 1, 19 f. 4. ποιητής m. (IA.), f. - ήτρια (hell.), `creator, producer, poet', esp. of Homer, with - ητικός `creating, poetic', ἡ -ητική ( τέχνη) `the art of poetry' (Pl., Arist.), - ητικεύομαι `to speak poetically etc.' (Eust., sch.). 5. ποιησείω desid. `to wish to do' (Hdn.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably]

Etymology: Decisive for the morphological evaluation of ποιέω are some dialectic aorist-forms: Arg. ποιϜέ̄σανς, ἐποίϜε̄hε, ἐποιϜέ̄θε̄, Boeot. ἐποίϜε̄σε, to which pres. opt. El. [πο]ιϜέοι (beside repeated ποιέοι). Acc. to usual interpretation (lit. in Bq and WP. 1, 510) ποιϜέω is derived from a noun *ποιϜός, which would be found in ἀρτο-ποιός a.o. An independent noun *ποιϜός cannot however be deduced from the 2. member, as the relevant adjectives seems recent and may have been derived from the verbal expressions ( τοξοφόρ-ος: τόξον φέρειν, λογογράφ-ος: λόγον γράφειν etc.). One might think that in the simplex we have a compound of - ποιέω that was made independent (Schwyzer 726 n. 7). -- The general meaning `make, create' may have arisen from the most different concrete special meanings. Nothing forbids to connect a verbal noun *ποι-Ϝός with u̯o-suffix (Schwyzer 472) with a verb `heap, accumulate, fit together', which is preserved in Indo-Iran., e.g. Skt. cinóti, and also has representatives in Slav., e.g. OCS činъ ' τάξις' with činiti `order, form'; IE kʷei- (WP. 1, 509f., Pok. 637f.). It is however obvious to combine, the u̯-element in *ποιϜός with the u̯-element in cinóti: so ποιϜέω from *kʷoi̯-u̯-éi̯ō beside cinóti from *kʷi-n-éu̯-ti approx. as Goth. straujan 'strew' from *strou̯-éi̯ō beside Skt. str̥ṇóti `strew' from *str̥-n-éu̯-ti (s. στόρνυμι) or Goth. - walwjan `revolve' beside Skt. vr̥ṇóti `envelop' and εἰλύω `id.' (*u̯ol-u-éi̯ō: *u̯l-n-éu̯-ti). In such an analysis ποιέω would appear like Goth. straujan, walwjan as an iterative deverbative and one would be liberated from the not quite reliable noun *ποιϜός. Of course the syntheta in - ποιός can then be connected with a primares verb (δρῠ-τόμ-ος: δόρυ τάμνειν). -- On the meaning of ποιέω and other verba faciendi cf. Braun Stud. itfllcl. N. S. 15, 243 ff.; also Valesio Quaderni dell'Istituto di Glottologia (Bologna) 5 (1960) 97 ff. Cf. also the lit. on δράω and πράσσω. Older lit. in Bq.

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