ἀρτάω

artao

fasten to

Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 9
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Book I 2
Chapter 16 494b19–496a3

495b19
495b29
Book III 3
Chapter 1 509a27–511a35

509b17

Chapter 3 512b12–514a22

513b2

Chapter 4 514a23–515a26

515a14
Book IV 3
Chapter 2 525a30–527a35

527a11
527a19

Chapter 5 530a32–531a7

530b32
Book VI 1
Chapter 10 564b14–566a1

565b8
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 3
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Chapter 4 469a27–469b20

469b15
Chapter 14 474a25–474b24

474b8
Chapter 26 479b17–480a15

480a12
Parts of Animals 3
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Book II 1
Chapter 10 655b28–657a11

656a30
Book III 1
Chapter 4 665a27–667b9

667a34
Book IV 1
Chapter 5 678a27–682a34

680a10
Generation of Animals 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 5 717b14–32

717b18
Book IV 1
Chapter 9 777a28–31

777a30
Metaphysics 2
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Book Γ 1
Chapter 2 1003a33–1005a18

1003b17
Book Λ 1
Chapter 7 1072a19–1073a13

1072b14
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 12 1161b11–1162a33

1161b17
Movement of Animals 1
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Chapter 4 699b12–700a25

700a6

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀρτάω, fut. -ήσω AP 6.245 (Diod.): aor. I ἤρτησα E. Andr. 811, etc.: pf. ἤρτηκα (προσ-) Arr. Epict. 1.1.14:—Pass., pf. ἤρτημαι E. Hipp. 857, Ion. 3pl. ἀρτέαται Hdt. 1.125: aor. ἠρτήθην (προσ-) Man. 4.199:—Α. fasten to or hang one thing upon another, τι ἀπό τινος Th. 2.76; ἀ. δέρην hang, E. Andr. l. c.; ἱμᾶσιν . . ἀρτήσας δέμας having bound, Id. Hipp. 1222:—Med., βρόχους ἀρτωμένη fastening halters to oneʼs neck, Id. Tr. 1012; ἀρτήσαντο Orph. A. 1096: but, II. more freq. Pass., to be hung upon, hang upon, ἠρτῆσθαι ἔκ τινος E. Hipp. 857, Pl. Ion 533e, etc.; ἐν βρόχοις E. Hipp. 779. 2. ἀρτᾶσθαι ἔκ τινος depend upon, Hdt. 3.19, 6.109, al.; ἐξ ὧν ὧλλοι ἀρτέαται Πέρσαι on whom the rest of the Persians depend, i.e. whom they acknowledge as their chiefs, Id. 1.125; so παρρησία ἐξ ἀληθείας ἠρτημένη D. 60.26; ἀπὸ ταὐτοῦ ἠ. Arist. MM 1209a22; ἐντεῦθεν Id. Juv. 469b15; τοῦ στόματος Ael. NA 4.51; τῶν χειρῶν Philostr. Im. 2.23, etc.; αἰτίου, ἀπʼ αἰτίας, Porph. Sent. 14. (Contr. from ἀερτάω (cf. ἀν-αερτάω), cf. ἀείρω ‘attach’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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