ἄτοπος
atopos
out of place, out of the way
Appears 252 times across Aristotle's works.
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Metaphysics 38 ▸
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Book Β 3 ▸
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Book Ζ 6 ▸
Chapter 5 1030b14–1031a14
Chapter 6 1031a15–1032a11
Chapter 13 1038b1–1039a23
Chapter 14 1039a24–1039b19
Chapter 15 1039b20–1040b4
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Chapter 6 1062b12–1063b35
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Chapter 4 1070a31–1070b35
Chapter 9 1074b15–1075a10
Chapter 10 1075a11–1076a4
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Chapter 2 1076a38–1077b16
Chapter 7 1080b37–1082b37
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Chapter 3 1090a16–1091a22
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Nicomachean Ethics 26 ▸
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Chapter 12 1143b18–1144a36
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Chapter 5 1148b15–1149a23
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Chapter 2 1164b22–1165a35
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Chapter 11 1281a39–1282b13
Chapter 16 1287a1–1287b35
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Chapter 12 1315b11–1316b27
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Chapter 1 1234b18–1235b12
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Chapter 1 1246a26–1246b36
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Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33
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Chapter 18 1418b40–1419b9
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Topics 8 ▸
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Mechanica 7 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 7 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 6 ▸
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De Interpretatione 6 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 6 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 4 ▸
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Poetics 4 ▸
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History of Animals 3 ▸
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De Lineis Insecabilibus 3 ▸
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Sense and Sensibilia 3 ▸
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄτοπος, ον, A. out of place, out of the way: hence, 1. unwonted, extraordinary, of symptoms, Hp. Aph. 4.52: Comp., ibid.; ἄ. ἁδονά E. IT 842 (lyr.), cf. Arist. EN 1149a15; ὄρνις Ar. Av. 276; πόθος Id. Ec. 956. 2. strange, paradoxical, δοῦλοι τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων slaves to every new paradox, Th. 3.38; ἄτοπόν τι πάσχειν And. 4.34; τῶν -ωτάτων μέντἂν εἴη D. 1.26; ἄτοπα τῆς σμικρολογίας absurd pettinesses, Pl. Tht. 175a; ἄ. ἡδονῆς καὶ λύπης μεῖξις Id. Phlb. 49a; ἄτοπόν ἐστι, c. inf., Pherecr. 91, Eub. 125; οὐδὲν ἄ. εἰ ἀποθάνοιμι Pl. Grg. 521d, cf. Arist. Cat. 11a37, al., etc. b. of persons, Isoc. 12.149; ἄ. παιδευτής Pl. R. 493c; ἄ. καὶ δυσχερεῖς D. 19.308; τὸν ἄτοπον φεύγειν ἀεί Men. 203c; ἄ. φαγεῖν given to strange food, Philostr. VA 3.55. 3. unnatural, disgusting, foul, πνεῦμα Th. 2.49; monstrous, ἀτοπώτατον πρᾶγμα ἐξευρών Lys. 3.7; later, wicked, wrong, LXX Jb. 27.6, Ev.Luc. 23.41; of persons, opp. χρηστός, Phld. Sign. 1; of things, bad, harmful, Act.Ap. 28.6. Adv. -πως in an unfavourable position, κεῖσθαι, of planets, Vett. Val.63.12. 4. Adv. -πως marvellously or absurdly, Th. 7.30, Pl. Phd. 95b, al., Arist. EN 1136a12, etc.; ἀ. καθίζων, = ἀνυπόπτως, Eup. 180. II. non-spatial, τῆς ἰδέας μενούσης ἐν ἀτόπῳ αὐτὸ τόπους γεννῆσαν Plot. 6.5.8. Adv. -πως non-spatially, opp. τοπικῶς, Porph. Sent. 33.
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