αἰγιαλός

aigialos

sea-shore, beach

Appears 8 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 5
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Book IV 1
Chapter 2 525a30–527a35

525b7
Book V 2
Chapter 15 546b15–548a21

547a10
548a1
Book VI 2
Chapter 12 566b2–567a16

566b29

Chapter 14 568a11–569a9

568b25
Mechanica 1
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Chapter 15 852b29–853a4

852b29
Meteorology 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 365b21–369a9

367b13
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 105 839b9–840a5

839b23

Dictionary (LSJ)

αἰγιαλός, ὁ, A. sea-shore, beach, Il. 4.422, Od. 22.385, Hdt. 7.50, al., Th. 1.7 (pl.), X. An. 6.4.4, Thphr. HP 7.13.8 (pl.), etc.; distinguished from ἀκτή, Arist. HA 547a10; also in E.(lyr.), IT 425, IA 210; αἰγιαλὸν ἔνδον τρέφει a whole beach of voting-pebbles, Ar. V. 110: prov., αἰγιαλῷ λαλεῖς, of deaf persons, Suid., Zen. 1.38. (Prob. connected with αἰγίς II, αἴξ IV.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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