ἀποσβέννυμι

aposbennymi

extinguish, quench

Appears 19 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Posterior Analytics 5
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Book II 5
Chapter 8 93a1–93b20

93b9
93b11

Chapter 10 93b29–94a19

94a4
94a5

Chapter 11 94a20–95a9

94b32
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 4
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Chapter 5 469b21–470a18

470a10
Chapter 23 478b22–479a28

479a18
479a20
Chapter 26 479b17–480a15

479b25
Meteorology 3
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Book I 1
Chapter 7 344a5–345a10

344a18
Book II 2
Chapter 3 356b4–359b26

359b6

Chapter 5 361b14–363a20

361b25
Sense and Sensibilia 3
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Chapter 2 437a19–439a5

437b14
437b21
438b15
History of Animals 2
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 24 604a22–605a15

604b30
Book IX 1
Chapter 30 618a31–618b8

618b7
Generation of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 8 776a15–777a27

777a14
Parts of Animals 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 647b10–649b8

649a23

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀποσβέννυμι (ἀποσβεννύω A.D. Pron. 36.4, Plu. 2.681e), A. extinguish, quench, τὸ φῶς Trag.Adesp. 9; τοὺς λύχνους Ar. V. 255; τὸ πῦρ Pl. Hp. Ma. 290e, etc.; also ἀ. τὸ κακόν Id. R. 556a; τὸ γένος καὶ ὄνομα X. Cyr. 5.4.30; ψυχήν AP 7.303 (tm.); ἰόν ib. 11.321 (Phil.); τὰς ὁράσεις Plu. l.c.; Gramm., extinguish, i.e. lose, τὸν τόνον, of enclitics, A.D. Pron. l.c. II. Pass., pres. in Heraclit. 30, Hp. Aër. 4, X. Lac. 13.3, etc.:— Med., fut. ἀποσβήσομαι Pl. Lg. 805c: aor. 2 and pf. Act. intr., ἀπέσβην E. Med. 1218, X. Cyr.l.c., Call. Fr. 1.10 P., Theoc. 4.39, etc.; ἀπέσβηκα X. Cyr. 8.8.13, Pl. Plt. 269b, etc.: aor. 1 Pass. ἀπεσβέσθην Ar. Lys. 293, Lys. 1.14, v.l. in Luc. Cat. 27: pf. ἀπέσβεσμαι Parm. 8.21, Porph. Abst. 3.7:—to be extinguished, go out, vanish, die, cease, ll.cc.; of a womanʼs milk, Hp. Aër. l.c., Arist. GA 777a14; ἀ. ὁ μαστός Id. HA 618b7: metaph., ἔρωτος ἀπές βη πυρσός AP 12.182 (Strat.).

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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