Aristotle Greek Lexicon ἀλογία

ἀλογία

alogia

want of respect

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀλογία, Ion. -ιη, , A. want of respect or regard, ἀλογίην εἶχον τοῦ χρηστηρίου took no heed of it, Hdt. 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 Procop. Pers. 1.2, al. 2. Att., want of reason, absurdity, opp. λόγος, Pl. Tht. 207c, cf. 199d, Phd. 67e, D. 23.168; πολλὴ ἀ. τῆς διανοίας Th. 5.111; concrete, the irrational part of the soul, Porph. Abst. 1.42. 3. confusion, disorder, Plb. 15.14.2; τύχη ἐν ἀλογίᾳ κειμένη Plot. 6.8.17:—speechlessness, amazement, Plb. 36.7.4. 4. indecision, doubt, Paus. 7.17.6. 5. Rhythm., irrationality, relation of time-elements which cannot be expressed by a simple ratio, Aristox. Rhyth. 2.20.

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