ἀλογία
alogia
want of respect
Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἀλογία, Ion. -ιη, ἡ, A. want of respect or regard, ἀλογίην εἶχον τοῦ χρηστηρίου took no heed of it, 4.150; ἐν ἀλογίῃ ἔχειν or ποιεῖσθαί τι 6.75, 7.226:—in 2.141 ἐν ἀλογίῃσι ἔχειν παραχρησάμενον τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, gen. is anacoluthon (as if ἀλογίην ἔχειν τῶν Αἰγ.) ; ἀλογίης ἐγκυρῆσαι to be disregarded, 7.208 codd.:—this sense is Ion. and late Prose, ἐν ἀλογίᾳ ποιεῖσθαί τι Pers. 1.2, al. 2. Att., want of reason, absurdity, opp. λόγος, Tht. 207c, cf. 199d, Phd. 67e, 23.168; πολλὴ ἀ. τῆς διανοίας 5.111; concrete, the irrational part of the soul, Abst. 1.42. 3. confusion, disorder, 15.14.2; τύχη ἐν ἀλογίᾳ κειμένη 6.8.17:—speechlessness, amazement, 36.7.4. 4. indecision, doubt, 7.17.6. 5. Rhythm., irrationality, relation of time-elements which cannot be expressed by a simple ratio, Rhyth. 2.20.
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