αὔανσις

auansis

drying up

Appears 5 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Generation of Animals 2
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Book V 2
Chapter 5 785a7–785b15

785a26
785a33
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 2
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Chapter 23 478b22–479a28

478b28
Chapter 24 479a29–479b7

479b3
Meteorology 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 1 378b10–379b9

379a5

Dictionary (LSJ)

αὔανσις, εως, ἡ, A. drying up, Arist. Mete. 379a5, GA 785a26; equiva-lent to γῆρας in plant-life, Id. Resp. 478b28.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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