αὐθάδεια

authadeia

wilfulness, stubbornness

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

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Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 3 1220b21–1221b26

1221a8
Book III 1
Chapter 7 1233b16–1234b14

1233b34
Physiognomonics 1
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Chapter 6 810a14–814b9

812a1

Dictionary (LSJ)

αὐθάδεια [θᾱ], poet. and later Prose (SIG 1243.27) αὐθαδία, ἡ, A. wilfulness, stubbornness, A. Pr. 79, S. OT 549, Ar. Th. 704, Pl. R. 590a, BGU 1187.21 (i B. C.), IG 7.2725.27 (Acraephia, ii A. D.), etc.; opp. εὐβουλία, A. Pr. 1034; surliness, Thphr. Char. 15.1; mean betw. ἀρέσκεια and σεμνότης, Arist. EE 1221a8; αὐθαδίαν αὐθαδίᾳ [ἐξελαύνειν] Antiph. 300.4; ἡ αὐ. τῶν συνθηκῶν ὅτι οὐ μετὰ κοινῆς γνώμης αὐτὰς ἔπραξεν D.H. 9.17.

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