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(
nik
ē
), victory: ability triumphant in a competition.

(
euporia
), inventiveness: good judgment which triumphs over something said.

(
d
ō
rea
), gift: exchange of favors.

(
kairos
), opportunity: the ideal time for something beneficial; the time that contributes to obtaining something good.

(
mn
ē
m
ē
), memory: disposition of the soul which guards over the truth which resides in it.

(
ennoia
), reflection: intense thinking.

(
no
ē
sis
), intuition: the starting point of knowledge.

(
hagneia
), piety: caution about mistakes with respect to the gods; paying service, in a normal way, to the honor of a [b] god.

(
manteia
), divining: the knowledge which predicts events without proof.

(
mantik
ē
), divination: the knowledge which contemplates the present and future of mortal beings.

(
sophia
), wisdom: non-hypothetical knowledge; knowledge of what always exists; knowledge which contemplates the cause of beings.

(
philosophia
), philosophy: desire for the knowledge of what always exists; the state which contemplates the truth, what makes it true; cultivation of the soul, based on correct reason.

(
epist
ē
m
ē
), knowledge: conception of the soul which cannot be dislodged by reasoning; ability to conceive one or more things which cannot be dislodged by reasoning; true argument which cannot be dislodged by thinking.

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