βοηθέω

boetheo

come to aid, succour, assist, aid

Appears 40 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 10
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Book VII 1
Chapter 10 587a9–587b18

587a11
Book VIII 4
Chapter 21 603a30–604a3

603b10
603b14

Chapter 24 604a22–605a15

604b3

Chapter 26 605a23–605b5

605b2
Book IX 5
Chapter 1 608a11–610a35

608b17
609b34

Chapter 6 611b32–612b17

612a8

Chapter 29 618a8–30

618a27

Chapter 37 620b10–622b18

621a13
Rhetoric 9
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Book I 2
Chapter 1 1354a1–1355b24

1355b1

Chapter 3 1358a36–1359a29

1359a3
Book II 6
Chapter 2 1378a30–1380a9

1379b28

Chapter 5 1382a20–1383b10

1383b7

Chapter 6 1383b11–1385a15

1383b25
1383b26
1383b26

Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33

1398a1
Book III 1
Chapter 10 1410b6–1411b21

1411b5
Politics 5
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Book II 1
Chapter 5 1262b37–1264b25

1263b6
Book III 1
Chapter 9 1280a7–1281a10

1280b27
Book IV 1
Chapter 1 1288b10–1289a25

1289a6
Book VI 1
Chapter 5 1319b30–1320b17

1319b31
Book VII 1
Chapter 6 1327a11–1327b19

1327b2
Nicomachean Ethics 3
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 1103b26–1104b2

1104a11
Book V 1
Chapter 2 1130a14–1131a9

1130a19
Book VIII 1
Chapter 9 1159b25–1160a30

1160a6
Metaphysics 3
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Book Α 1
Chapter 9 990a33–993a10

991a12
Book Ι 1
Chapter 5 1055b30–1056b2

1056a10
Book Μ 1
Chapter 5 1079b12–1080a11

1079b16
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 2
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Chapter 14 474a25–474b24

474b24
Chapter 16 475b15–476a15

475b16
Parts of Animals 2
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Book III 2
Chapter 2 662b23–664a11

663a3

Chapter 7 669b13–670b31

670a20
Eudemian Ethics 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 11 1244a1–36

1244a2
Generation of Animals 1
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Book V 1
Chapter 5 785a7–785b15

785a29
De Lineis Insecabilibus 1
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Chapter 1 968a1–972b33

969b6
Mechanica 1
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Chapter 1 847a11–848a37

847a19
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 107 840a15–26

840a23
Sophistical Refutations 1
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Chapter 34 183a27–184b8

184a7

Dictionary (LSJ)

βοηθέω (sts. written βοιηθέω, IG 22.237 (iv B. C.), BGU 1007.12 (iii B. C.)), Ion. βωθέω, only Hsch. βωθέοντες, not in Hdt. (but cf. Eust. 812.59) or Hp., cf. βοηθήσω Michel 12.15 (Erythrae, iv B. C.); Dor. βοᾱθοέω SIG 421.27 (Thermon); Aeol.βαθόημι (q. v.):—Med., fut. -ήσομαι Lib. Or. 1.128:—Α. come to aid, succour, assist, aid, c. dat., τῇ σφετέρῃ Hdt. 1.82; τοῖσιν ἠδικημένοις E. IA 79; πρὸς τοὺς αὑτῶν ψιλούς X. HG 1.2.3; τινὶ ἀντία τινός Hdt. 5.99; τινὶ πρὸς τὸ ἄναντες X. HG 4.8.38; ναυσὶ β. τινί πολιορκουμένῳ ib.1.6.22; β. τοῖς φίλοις τὰ δίκαια Id. Mem. 2.6.25; β. τοῖς τῶν προγόνων ἀτυχήμασιν Aeschin. 3.169; β. τῷ λόγῳ Pl. Phd. 88e; β. τῷ θεῷ maintain his rights, Epist. Philipp. ap. D. 18.157; β. τοῖς νόμοις Aeschin. 1.33: c. dat. et acc., πατρὶ βοηθῶν θάνατον Pl. Lg. 874c; of a physician, β. τῷ θερμῷ ἐπὶ τὸ ψυχρόν Hp. VM 13: abs., Plu. Alex. 19. 2. abs., come to the rescue, Hdt. 1.30, 7.158, A. Supp. 613, etc.; β. παρά τινα Hdt. 9.57; ἐπί τινα against one, Id. 1.62, 4.125, Th. 1.126, etc.; β. ἐς . . Hdt. 6.103; ἐπὶ . . Th. 3.97, 4.72; ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς Id. 8.11; ἐκεῖσε D. 4.41; β. πρός τι contribute to an object, v. l. in Arist. EN 1155a14, cf. Metaph. 1079b16, or keep it off, Id. Resp. 474b24, HA 621a13; χρήμασι with money, Id. EN 1130a19: Medic., βοηθεῖ πρὸς τὸ κώνειον it is an antidote to . . , Thphr. HP 9.20.1; freq. in Dsc. as β. τοῖς φαγοῦσι 4.83. 3. Pass., to be assisted, receive help, παρά τινος Arist. Rh. 1383b28; βοηθήσομαι LXX Da. 11.34, but βοηθηθήσομαι Is. 44.2; ἐβοήθην ib.10.3, 2 Ch. 26.15 (v.l. ἐβοηθήθην) ; ἵνʼ ὦ βεβοηθημένη PRyl. 122.12 (ii A. D.); esp. of patients, derive benefit, Dsc. 4.82, Plu. 2.687f: impers., ἐμοὶ βεβοήθηται τῷ τεθνεῶτι Antipho 1.31; ταύτῃ μοι βεβοηθημένον ἐγεγόνει φιλοσοφίᾳ Pl. Ep. 347e.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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