ἀνάλγητος

analgetos

without pain

Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Eudemian Ethics 3
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Book II 2
Chapter 2 1220a38–1220b20

1220b17

Chapter 3 1220b21–1221b26

1221a16
Book III 1
Chapter 2 1230a34–1231b4

1231a32
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 7 1115b7–1116a14

1115b26
On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 1
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Chapter 1 974a1–975a17

974a19
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 9 1366a23–1368a37

1367a36

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀνάλγητος, ον, A. without pain, and so: I. of persons, insensible to pain or danger, Meliss. ap. Arist. Xen. 974a19, cf. EN 1115b26. 2. unfeeling, hard-hearted, ruthless, S. Aj. 946 (lyr.); -ότερος εἶναι to feel less resentment, Th. 3.40: c. gen., ἀ. γενέσθαι τινός to be insensible to, Plu. Aem. 35. Adv. -τως unfeelingly, S. Aj. 1333; callously, ἀ. ἀκούειν Plu. 2.46c. II. of things, not painful, ἀνάλγητα (sc. πράγματα) a lot free from pain, S. Tr. 126. 2. cruel, πάθος E. Hipp. 1386 (lyr.).

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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