The noun doxa derives from dokeō (future doxō, aorist edoxa), “think, admit, claim.” It means a subjective appraisal, an internal mental judgment, made by an individual or an assembly.1 But, beginning with its first usages, doxa means “expectation, what is thought possible”; “In accord with our expectation, she goes straight to the mark”;2 hence by far the most widespread meaning in secular Greek, “opinion, thought, sentiment,”3 as distinct from noēsis (Plato, Resp. 7.534.a) and epistēmē.4 There