ἀποκρύπτω

apokrypto

hide from, keep hidden from

Appears 15 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 6
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Book IV 1
Chapter 10 536b24–537b21

537a24
Book VIII 2
Chapter 14 599a20–29

599a29

Chapter 15 599a30–600a9

599b2
Book IX 3
Chapter 5 611a15–611b31

611a29

Chapter 6 611b32–612b17

612a14

Chapter 13 615b19–616a13

615b22
Oeconomica 3
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Book II 3
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1349b22
1349b26
1351a36
De Audibilibus 1
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Chapter 1 800a1–804b39

801b20
On the Heavens 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 12 291b24–293a14

292a5
De Mundo 1
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Chapter 6 397b7–401a11

399a35
Poetics 1
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Chapter 24 1459b7–1460b5

1460b4
Rhetoric 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19

1406a28
Sophistical Refutations 1
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Chapter 12 172b9–173a30

173a4

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀποκρύπτω, used by Hom. only in aor. 1, Ep. impf. ἀποκρύπτασκε Hes. Th. 157:—Pass., aor. -εκρύβην [ῠ] LXXJb. 3.23: fut. -κρῠβήσομαι ib.Ps. 18(19).6, Gal. UP 10.12:—Med., aor.2 -εκρυβόμην Apollod. 3.2.1:—Α. hide from, keep hidden from, c. acc. et gen., αἴ γάρ μιν θανάτοιο . . δυναίμην νόσφιν ἀποκρύψαι Il. 18.465: c. dat. pers., ἀπέκρυψεν δέ μοι ἵππους 11.718: c. dupl. acc., hide or keep back from one, οὔτε σε ἀποκρύψω τὴν ἐμὴν οὐσίαν Hdt. 7.28; τι ἀπό τινος LXX4 Ki. 4.27:— Med., ἀποκρύπτεσθαί τινά τι Pl. Lg. 702c, X. Mem. 2.6.29, etc.; ἀ. τι keep it back, Pl. Prt. 348e, cf. 327a: c. acc. pers., X. Cyr. 8.7.23, Smp. 1.6. 2. hide from sight, keep hidden, conceal, Od. 17.286, etc.; ἔθηκε νύκτʼ ἀποκρύψας φάος Archil. 74.3; τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθεος τῶν ὀϊστῶν ἀ. Hdt. 7.226; ἀποκρύψει φάος νύξ A. Pr. 24; χιὼν ἀ. τι X. An. 4.4.11; ἀ. τὴν σοφίαν Pl. Ap. 22e; ἀ. τὴν οὐσίαν ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις Isoc. 1.42; εἰς τὸ ἄδηλον -κρύπτων X. Eq.Mag. 5.7:—Med., Ar. Eq. 424.483; ἀ. ἑαυτόν efface oneself, Pl. R. 393c: c. inf., ἀποκρύπτεσθαί τι μὴ καθʼ ἡδονὴν ποιεῖν to conceal oneʼs doing, Th. 2.53; περὶ ὧν ἀποκρυπτόμεθα μηδένα εἰδέναι Lys. 7.18; pf. Pass. in med. sense, οὐκ ἀποκέκρυπται τὴν οὐσίαν D. 28.3: abs., ἀποκρύψασθαι πρός τινα Isoc. 11.2:—Pass., τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποκεκρυμμένον Hdt. 7.45; τοὺς ἀποκρυπτομένους those who withdraw from public, Alex. 265. 3. obscure, E. Fr. 153, Arist. Po. 1460b4, Alcid. Soph. 30, Lib. Or. 63.26, Jul. Or. 1.44c. II. ἀ. γῆν lose from sight, of ships running out to sea, opp. ἀνοίγνυμι I.3, φεύγειν εἰς τὸ πέλαγος . . ἀποκρύψαντα γῆν Pl. Prt. 338a, cf. Lib. Or. 59.147; ἐπειδὴ ἀπεκρύψαμεν αὐτούς when we got out of sight of them, Luc. VH 2.38, cf. Th. 5.65 (sc. αὐτούς) τὴν θάλατταν (i.e. by marching inland) Aristid. 1.473 J.; ἀποκρύπτουσι Πελειάδες (sc. ἑαυτούς) disappear, Hes. Fr. 179; ἄστερες ἄμφι σελάνναν ἀ. εἶδος Sapph. 3; but also Pass. of ships, Hero Aut. 22.5.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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