ης (ἡ) état d’un corps entier ou intact, d’où intégrité, généralité, ensemble, HPC. 12, 314 c, etc.

Étym. οὐλομελής.

ἡ, Ion. for ὁλομέλεια, wholeness of limbs; hence, the general nature of a thing, περὶ ἀδένων οὐλομελίης Hp. Art. 11, Gland. 1 and 7, also cited by Gal. UP 1.8; dat. οὐλομελίῃ, as Adv., = καθόλου, upon the whole, Hsch. ; so κατὰ οὐλομελίην, opp. κατὰ μέρος, Hp. Alim. 23. — In Arist. Metaph. 1093b4, codd. have τῇ οὐλομελείᾳ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ (leg. ὁλομελείᾳ, as in Theol.Ar. 36), to the whole celestial system.