δίοδος

diodos

way through, passage, pass

Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Meteorology 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 13 349a12–351a18

351a6
Book IV 1
Chapter 7 383b18–384b23

384b10
Parts of Animals 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 17 660a14–661a30

660b20
Book III 1
Chapter 5 667b10–668b32

668b2
History of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 14 493b2–11

493b5
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 13 473a15–474a24

473b13

Dictionary (LSJ)

δίοδος, ἡ, A. way through, passage, pass, of Thermopylae, Hdt. 7.201, cf. 9.99, Ar. Th. 658, IG 22.463.122, etc.; δ. ὕδατος Th. 2.102; ἄστρων δίοδοι their pathways, orbits, A. Pr. 1050 (lyr.); δ. ἔχειν to command the road, Th. 7.32; αἱ δ. τῶν πτερῶν Pl. Phdr. 255d; δ. αἰτεῖσθαι, αἰτεῖν, ask leave to pass, demand a safe-conduct, Ar. Av. 189, Aeschin. 3.151. II. passing through the bowels, μελάνων Hp. Prorrh. 1.127.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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