ἀνασῴζω

anasozo

recover what is lost, rescue

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

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Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book IX 1
Chapter 3 1165a36–1165b36

1165b22
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 20 477a32–478a10

477b4
Oeconomica 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1353a4

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀνασῴζω, fut. -ώσω: pf. ἀνασέσωικεν IG 12(5).1061.9 (Ceos, iii B.C.): aor. ἀνέσωισε ib.1004.5 (Ios, iv/iii B.C.), cf. OGI 56.11:— A. recover what is lost, rescue, ἀπὸ φόνου ἔρρυτο κἀνέσωσέ μʼ S. OT 1351 (lyr.); ἀ. φίλον ἀλλοιωφέντα Arist. EN 1165b22:—more freq. in Med., ἀνασῴζεσθαί τινα φόνου rescue from death, S. El. 1133; ἀνασωσάμενός μοι δὸς . . Σάμον Hdt. 3.140:—but Hdt. commonly uses the Med. in the proper sense, ἀ. τὴν ἀρχήν recover it for oneself, 1.82, 106, etc.; in 3.65 he joins Act. and Med., μὴ ἀνασωσαμένοισι δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν μηδʼ ἐπιχειρήσασι ἀνασῴζειν :—Pass., to be restored, recover, Pl. Phlb. 32e; return safe, εἰς Κατάνην Lys. 20.24; ἀνασωθῆναι ἐς τὰς πατρίδας, of exiles, X. HG 4.8.28; ἐκ φυγῆς Plb. 18.27.2, al. 2. preserve in mind, remember, Hdt. 6.65.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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