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ἀπόκρισις

apokrisis

separation

Appears 58 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀπόκρισις, εως, ἡ, A. separation, Anaxag. 4; κάθαρσις ἀ. χειρόνων ἀπὸ βελτιόνων Pl. Def. 415d. 2. Medic., excretion or secretion, γονῆς Hp. Genit. 2, σιτίων Vict. 4.93, cf. Arist. HA 582a4, Pr. 878a23, etc.; ἀ.σπερματική, περιττωματική, PA 681b35; σπέρματος Epicur. Nat.Herc. 908.3. 3. ἀ. νοσηρή exhalation, miasma, Hp. Nat.Hom. 9. II. (from Med.) decision, answer, first in Thgn. 1167, cf. Hdt. 1.49, 5.50 codd. (ὑπόκρισις edd.), Hp. Decent. 3, Steril. 213, E. Fr. 977; ἀ. πρὸς τὸ ἐρώτημα Th. 3.60, cf. X. Hier. 1.35. 2. defence, Antipho 5.65. 3. rescript, Procop. Pers. 2.23; = responsum, Gloss. 4. embassy, commission, Chor. in Rev.Phil. 1.79. III. a kind of dance, Hsch.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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