χρόνιος

chronios

after a long time, late

Appears 15 times across Aristotle's works.

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Generation of Animals 5
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Book III 3
Chapter 5 755a36–756b12

755b34
756b2

Chapter 8 757b31–758a25

758a4
Book IV 2
Chapter 10 777a32–778a12

777a34
777a34
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 5 1157b5–36

1157b11
Book X 1
Chapter 5 1175a21–1176a29

1175b14
On Generation and Corruption 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 10 327a30–328b22

328a35
Book II 1
Chapter 4 331a7–332a2

331b11
History of Animals 2
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Book V 1
Chapter 5 540b6–541a34

540b20
Book VIII 1
Chapter 28 605b22–607a8

606b2
Rhetoric 2
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Book I 2
Chapter 12 1372a4–1373a38

1372a35
1372b15
Parts of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 14 674a9–676a5

675a28
Politics 1
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Book VI 1
Chapter 5 1319b30–1320b17

1320a35

Dictionary (LSJ)

χρόνιος, α, ον, also ος, ον E. Ion 470 (lyr.), Andr. 84, Th. 6.31:—A. after a long time, late, ἐλθὼν χρόνιος Od. 17.112; χρονία μὲν ἥκεις Cratin. 222, cf. Ar. Th. 912; χ. φανείς S. Ph. 1446 (anap.); χρόνιος (v.l. χρόνιον) εἰσιδὼν φίλον E. Or. 475; τροπαίᾳ χρονίᾳ A. Th. 706(lyr.); χρόνιοι ξυνιόντες Th. 1.141. Adv. -ίως after a long time, Sammelb. 4314.2 (iii B.C.). b. long-delaying, tardy, Δίκα E. Fr. 223(lyr.); χ. τὰ τῶν θεῶν Id. Ion 1615 (troch.). 2. for a long time, a long while, χρόνιόν τινα ἐκβεβληκότες, ἤλαυνε, S. Ph. 600, OC 441; μή . . χρόνιοι μέλλετε πράσσειν Id. Ph. 1449(anap.); χρόνιος ὤν, ἀπών, E. Or. 485, IA 1099; χρόνιός εἴμʼ ἀπʼ ἀνθρώπων βορᾶς Id. Cyc. 249. 3. long-continued, ἀρετὰ χρονία τελέθει Pi. P. 3.115; ἄπλοιαι A. Ag. 149(lyr.); χρόνια λέκτρʼ ἔχων having been long married, E. Ph. 14; χ. ἐτῶν ἐνιαυτοί Ar. Ra. 347(lyr.); στόλος . . χ. ἐσόμενος, χρόνιος στρατεία, Th. 6.31; δεσμὰ χ. Pl. Lg. 855b; of plants, perennial, opp. ἐπέτειος, Thphr. HP 1.1.9. 4. of ailments, chronic, νοσήματα Hp. Aph. 2.39, Coac. 203; [πόνοι] Epicur. Fr. 447; νόσοι D.H. 1.37, Gal. 6.356; ἰσχιάς Dsc. 1.10; [βῆχες] Paul.Aeg. 3.28 (Comp.). Adv. -ίως Philum. ap. Orib. 8.45 tit.: Comp. -ιωτέρως Hp. Coac. 197. 5. Astrol., χ. ζῴδια, f.l. for Κρονικά, Cat.Cod.Astr. 1.133. II. Adv. -ίως Arist. GC 328a35, Thphr. Sud. 22; neut. pl. χρόνια as Adv., E. Or. 152(lyr.): Comp. -ώτερον Pi. N. 4.6.—Rare in Prose, and only (as it seems) in signf. I.3 and 5.

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