ἀπειθέω

apeitheo

to be disobedient, refuse compliance

Appears 10 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Sophistical Refutations 3
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Chapter 15 174a17–174b40

174b3
Chapter 25 180a23–180b39

180a36
180b1
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book III 1
Chapter 5 1113b3–1115a5

1114a16
Book X 1
Chapter 9 1179a33–1181b23

1180a8
Politics 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 1267b22–1269a28

1269a18
Book VII 1
Chapter 8 1328a21–1328b23

1328b9
Oeconomica 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1350a32
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 15 1375a22–1378a15

1375b23
De Virtutibus et Vitiis 1
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Chapter 7 1251a19–1251b25

1251a38

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀπειθέω, Att. form of ἀπῐθέω (though even Trag. preferred ἀπιστέω, q.v. II), A. to be disobedient, refuse compliance, A. Ag. 1049; opp. πείθομαι, Pl. Phdr. 271b: freq. c. dat., disobey, οὐκ ἀπειθήσας θεῷ E. Or. 31; ἀ. ἅμα νόμῳ καὶ τῷ θεῷ Pl. Lg. 741d, etc.; τὰ μεγάλα ἀ. τινί in great matters, Id. R. 538b; ἀ. ταῖς ἐνεχυρασίαις not to abide by them, Id. Lg. 949d: later c. gen., ψαφίσματος GDI 3705.111 (Cos); ἐντολῶν LXXJo. 5.6. 2. of animals, X. Cyr. 7.5.62; of ships, τοῖς οἴαξιν ἀ. D.S. 13.46. 3. of a woman, refuse compliance, Aristaenet. 2.20.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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