βελτίων
beltion
better
Appears 419 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Politics 92 ▸
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Book II 31 ▸
Book III 16 ▸
Book IV 9 ▸
Book V 3 ▸
Book VI 6 ▸
Book VII 12 ▸
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Topics 63 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 43 ▸
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Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1109b30–1111b3Book VI 1 ▸
Chapter 13 1144b1–1145a11Book VII 8 ▸
Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 14 1163a24–1163b28Book IX 4 ▸
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Rhetoric 32 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 26 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 23 ▸
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Generation of Animals 23 ▸
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Parts of Animals 20 ▸
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Metaphysics 16 ▸
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Poetics 16 ▸
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History of Animals 14 ▸
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Chapter 4 583b29–585a28 -
Physics 12 ▸
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Categories 4 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 4 ▸
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Prior Analytics 3 ▸
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Chapter 21 66b18–67b26 -
On Generation and Corruption 3 ▸
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Chapter 5 320a8–322a33 -
On the Heavens 2 ▸
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Oeconomica 2 ▸
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Physiognomonics 2 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 1 ▸
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Dictionary (LSJ)
βελτίων, ον, gen. ονος, Comp. of ἀγαθός, A. better (not in Hom.), βέλτιόν [ἐστι] it is fitting, convenient, Arist. Pol. 1264b28; μανθάνειν βελτίονα [S.]Fr. 1120.5; ἐπὶ τὸ β. χωρεῖν improve, advance, Th. 7.50; ἐπὶ τὸ β. ἐλθεῖν Din. 1.65; ἄγειν ib.29; τὰ βελτίω προσδοκᾶν ἀεί Apollod.Com. 9. Adv. βελτιόνως, ἔχειν Hp. Mul. 1.2, cf. Pl. R. 484a. [ῑ Att., but βέλτῐον Mimn. 2.10.]
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