ἀθλητής

athletes

combatant, champion

Appears 8 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Politics 3
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Book VI 1
Chapter 7 1321a5–1321b3

1321a26
Book VII 2
Chapter 16 1334b29–1336a2

1335b5
1335b10
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book III 2
Chapter 2 1111b4–1112a17

1111b24

Chapter 8 1116a15–1117a28

1116b13
Generation of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 3 767a36–769b29

768b29
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 51 834a12–22

834a17
Rhetoric 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 20 1393a23–1394a18

1393b6

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀθλητής, contr. from ἀεθλητής, οῦ, ὁ:—A. combatant, champion; esp. in games, Pi. N. 5.49, 10.51 (in form ἀεθλ-), cf. Pl. R. 410b, IG 4.1508B (Epid.), etc.: of Christian martyrs, Epist.Gall. ap. Jul. 454d, cf. JRS 10.53. 2. as Adj., ἀ. ἵππος a race-horse, Lys. 19.63, Pl. Prm. 137a. II. c. gen. rei, practised in, master of, πολέμου Pl. R. 543b; τῶν καλῶν ἔργων D. 25.97; βδελυρίας Theopomp. Hist.217; τῶν ἔργων (sc. τῶν πολεμικῶν) Arist. Pol. 1321a26; τῆς ἀληθινῆς λέξεως D.H. Dem. 18; πάσης ἀρετῆς D.S. 9.1; οἵους ἡ γῆ τοὺς ἑαυτῆς ἀ. ἀποτελεῖ Philostr. Im. 2.24.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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