διάβολος

diabolos

slanderous, backbiting

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

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Topics 3
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Book IV 3
Chapter 5 125b15–127a19

126a31
126b9
126b10

Dictionary (LSJ)

διάβολος, ον, A. slanderous, backbiting, γραῦς Men. 878, cf. Phld. Lib.p.24O.: Sup. -ώτατος Ar. Eq. 45; διάβολόν τι, aliquid invidiae, And. 2.24; τὸ δ. Plu. 2.61d. II. Subst., slanderer, Pi. Fr. 297, Arist. Top. 126a31, Ath. 11.508d; enemy, LXX Es. 7.4, 8.1: hence, = Sâtân, ib.1Chr. 21.1; the Devil, Ev.Matt. 4.1, etc. III. Adv. -λως injuriously, invidiously, Th. 6.15; χρῆσθαί τινι Procop. Arc. 2.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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