διαστροφή

diastrophe

twisting

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Eudemian Ethics 3
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Book II 3
Chapter 10 1225b17–1227b11

1227a21
1227a30
1227a31

Dictionary (LSJ)

διαστροφή, ἡ, A. twisting, of a fractured limb, Hp. Fract. 16; distortion, Id. Art. 46; τῶν ὀμμάτων Arist. Pr. 958a6, cf. 960a20: abs., of limbs, Sor. 1.111. 2. metaph., perversion, Arist. EE 1227a21; τοῦ δήμου ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον Plb. 2.21.8, Porph. Abst. 1.13, etc.; γενῶν Plu. 2.520c; δ. κακή LXX Pr. 2.14. 3. distraction, Metrod. Herc. 831.7; madness, D.L. 2.89. 4. tergiversation, Just. Nov. 17.8.1 (pl.).

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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