ἀπρεπής

aprepes

unseemly, unbecoming

Appears 14 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 8
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Book II 1
Chapter 21 1394a19–1395b20

1395a5
Book III 7
Chapter 2 1404b1–1405b34

1404b16
1405a12
1405a30

Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19

1406a13
1406b6

Chapter 6 1407b26–1408a9

1407b29

Chapter 11 1411b22–1413b2

1413b1
Poetics 3
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Chapter 15 1454a16–1454b18

1454a30
Chapter 22 1458a18–1459a16

1458b14
Chapter 24 1459b7–1460b5

1459b34
De Mundo 1
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Chapter 6 397b7–401a11

398b6
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 8 1127b33–1128b9

1128a26
Politics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 4 1262a25–1262b36

1262a36

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀπρεπής, ές, A. unseemly, unbecoming, ἀ. τι ἐπιγνῶναι, πάσχειν, Th. 3.57,67; ἀ. καὶ ἄσχημον Pl. Lg. 788b; μέθη . . φύλαξιν -έστατον Id. R. 398e; τὸ . . τοιαυτὶ ποιεῖν ἀπρεπές Epicr. 11.33; τὸ ἀ., = ἀπρέπεια, Th. 5.46,6.11. Adv. -πῶς, poet. -πέως, h.Merc. 272, Pl. Phdr. 274b, etc.: Comp. -έστερον Hdn. 3.13.1. II. of persons, disreputable, indecent, ἀνδρίον Theoc. 5.40.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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