ἄγροικος

agroikos

dwelling in the fields

Appears 12 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Nicomachean Ethics 5
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Book II 2
Chapter 2 1103b26–1104b2

1104a24

Chapter 7 1107a28–1108b10

1108a26
Book IV 2
Chapter 8 1127b33–1128b9

1128a9
1128b2
Book VII 1
Chapter 9 1151a29–1152a5

1151b13
Eudemian Ethics 3
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Book III 3
Chapter 2 1230a34–1231b4

1230b19

Chapter 7 1233b16–1234b14

1234a5
1234a8
Rhetoric 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 21 1394a19–1395b20

1395a6
Book III 1
Chapter 7 1408a10–1408b20

1408a32
History of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 1 486a5–488b28

488b2
Metaphysics 1
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Book Α 1
Chapter 5 985b23–987a28

986b27

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἄγροικος, ον, (ἀγρός, οἰκέω) A. dwelling in the fields, ζὧα, opp. ὄρεια, Arist. HA 488b2; esp. of men, countryman, rustic, Ar. Nu. 47; in Attica, οἱ ἄ., = γεωμόροι (q. v.), Arist. Ath. 13.2, D.H. 2.8: mostly with the collat. sense of boorish, rude, Ar. Nu. 628,646, etc., cf. Thphr. Char. 4; μέλος -ότερον Ar. Ach. 674; ἄ. σοφία Pl. Phdr. 229e, cf. Isoc. 5.82 (Comp.), Arist. EN 1128a9; of fortune, Apollod.Car. 5.14; ἄ. Δημοσθένης, of Dinarchus, D.H. Din. 8. Adv. -κως Ar. V. 1320: Comp. -οτέρως Pl. R. 361e, X. Mem. 3.13.1; -ότερον Pl. Phdr. 260d. II. rustic, βίος Ar. Nu. 43. 2. of fruits, common, opp. γενναῖος, ὀπώρα Pl. Lg. 844d. (ἀγροῖκος dwelling in the country, ἄγροικος boorish, acc. to Ammon. Diff. 5, but this is very doubtful.)—Not found in early Ep. or Trag.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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