Αἰθίοψ

aithiops

Burnt-face

Appears 11 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Generation of Animals 4
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Book I 2
Chapter 18 722a1–726a27

722a10
722a11
Book II 1
Chapter 2 735a29–736a23

736a11
Book V 1
Chapter 3 781b30–784a22

782b35
History of Animals 4
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Book III 2
Chapter 9 517a6–517b2

517a18

Chapter 22 523a13–27

523a18
Book VII 2
Chapter 6 585b5–586a14

586a3
586a4
Physiognomonics 2
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Chapter 6 810a14–814b9

812a13
812b31
Sophistical Refutations 1
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Chapter 5 166b28–168a16

167a11

Dictionary (LSJ)

Αἰθίοψ, οπος, ὁ, fem. Αἰθιοπίς, ίδος, ἡ (Αἰθίοψ as fem., A. Fr. 328, 329): pl. Αἰθιοπῆες Il. 1.423, whence nom. Αἰθιοπεύς Call. Del. 208: (αἴθω, ὄψ):—A. properly, Burnt-face, i.e. Ethiopian, negro, Hom., etc.; prov., Αἰθίοπα σμήχειν ‘to wash a blackamoor white’, Luc. Ind. 28. 2. a fish, Agatharch. 109. II. Adj., Ethiopian, Αἰθιοπὶς γλῶσσα Hdt. 3.19; γῆ A. Fr. 300, E. Fr. 228.4: Subst. Αἰθιοπίς, ἡ, title of Epic poem in the Homeric cycle; also name of a plant, silver sage, Salvia argentea, Dsc. 4.104:— also Αἰθιόπιος, α, ον, E. Fr. 349: Αἰθιοπικός, ή, όν, Hdt., etc.; Αἰ. κύμινον, = ἄμι, Hp. Morb. 3.17, Dsc. 3.62:—Subst. Αἰθιοπία, ἡ, Hdt., etc. 2. red-brown, AP 7.196 (Mel.), cf. Ach. Tat.4.5.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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