ἄφοδος

aphodos

going away, departure

Appears 9 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 4
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Book III 2
Chapter 1 509a27–511a35

509b10
511a3
Book V 1
Chapter 5 540b6–541a34

540b29
Book IX 1
Chapter 37 620b10–622b18

621b10
Parts of Animals 2
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Book IV 2
Chapter 11 690b11–692b2

692a25

Chapter 13 695a28–697b13

697a11
Progression of Animals 1
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Chapter 4 705a26–706a25

705b27
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 16 475b15–476a15

476a3
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 1 830a5–25

830a22

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἄφοδος, Ion. ἄποδος, ἡ (ὁ, v. infr. II), A. going away, departure, Hdt. 5.19, 9.55, X. An. 6.4.13, etc.; departure out of life, death, Hierocl. p.58A., Plot. 4.3.25. 2. going or coming back, return, Hdt. 4.97; retreat, X. HG 6.5.20, An. 5.2.21; ἄ. λείπειν τινί ib.4.2.11. II. privy, Hp. Fract. 16, Ar. Ec. 1059, Antiph. 40.5. 2. excrement, Hp. Acut. 30, al., Arist. Mir. 830a22 (masc.), Dsc. 2.80, Artem. 2.26. 3. in pl., seminal ducts, Aret. CD 2.5.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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