διπλόος

diploos

twofold, double

Appears 28 times across Aristotle's works.

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Meteorology 5
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Book I 2
Chapter 2 339a11–32

339a14

Chapter 4 341b1–342a33

341b8
Book II 1
Chapter 3 356b4–359b26

357b24
Book III 2
Chapter 4 373a32–375b15

375a30

Chapter 6 377a29–378b6

378a17
Poetics 5
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Chapter 13 1452b28–1453a39

1453a13
1453a31
Chapter 20 1456b20–1457a30

1457a12
Chapter 21 1457a31–1458a17

1457a32
Chapter 22 1458a18–1459a16

1459a5
Rhetoric 5
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Book III 5
Chapter 2 1404b1–1405b34

1404b29

Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19

1405b36
1406a30
1406a35
1406b1
Parts of Animals 4
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Book II 4
Chapter 10 655b28–657a11

656b32
656b33

Chapter 17 660a14–661a30

660b9
660b10
History of Animals 3
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Book I 1
Chapter 7 491a27–491b8

491b6
Book II 2
Chapter 13 504b13–505b4

505a12
505a14
Sophistical Refutations 2
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Chapter 10 170b12–171b2

171a34
Chapter 19 177a9–32

177a21
On Generation and Corruption 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 10 336a15–337a33

337a13
De Interpretatione 1
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Chapter 4 16b26–17a7

16b32
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 27 480a16–480b30

480a23
Politics 1
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Book VI 1
Chapter 8 1321b4–1323a10

1322a18

Dictionary (LSJ)

διπλόος, η, ον, contr. διπλοῦς, ῆ, οῦν, Ion. fem. διπλέη Hdt. 3.42 codd., but διπλήν or -ῆν Id. 5.90, διπλάς or -ᾶς Id. 3.28: contr. always in Trag., exc. διπλόοι A. Fr. 39: (cf. ἁπλόος):—Α. twofold, double, prop. of cloaks and articles of dress, χλαῖνα διπλῆ, = δίπλαξ or διπλοΐς, Il. 10.134, Od. 19.226; ὅθι . . διπλόος ἤντετο θώρηξ where the cuirass met [the buckle] so as to be double, Il. 4.133; τὴν ἐπωμίδα πτύξας διπλῆν having folded it double, Apollod.Car. 4: generally, καλύβη διπλῆ διαφράγματι Th. 1.133; διπλόος θάνατος Hdt. 6.104; παῖσον διπλῆν (sc. πληγήν) S. El. 1415; δ. οἰκίδιον of two stories, Lys. 1.9; διπλῆ ἄκανθα spine bent double by age, E. El. 492; διπλῆ <ῥάχις> X. Eq. 1.11; σύμβολον δ. executed in duplicate, PHib. 1.29 (iii B. C.). 2. διπλῇ χερὶ θανεῖν by mutual slaughter, S. Ant. 14. 3. δ. ὀνόματα compound words, Arist. Po. 1459a9, Rh. 1404b29, etc. 4. of fevers in which two paroxysms took place in a given time, δ. ἀμφημερινός, τριταῖος, Gal. 7.472, 9.677. 5. δ. ἰσότης, = διπλοϊσότης (q. v.), Dioph.p.98T., etc. 6. δ. ἄνδρας· τὰ δισύλλαβα ἀνδρῶν ὀνόματα, Hsch. II. as Comp., twice as much, large, etc., βίος Pl. Ti. 75b; δίκη Id. Lg. 865c; δ. ἢ . . twice as much as . . (v. διπλῇ): c. gen., Id. Ti. 35b; διπλοῦν ὀφείλειν ὅσον . . Lex ap.D. 23.28; διπλῷ, = διπλῇ, Pl. Lg. 722b. III. pl., in Trag., = δύο, A. Pr. 950, Ch. 761, S. Aj. 960, OT 20, Ant. 51. IV. double, doubtful, οὐ γνώμᾳ διπλόαν θέτο βουλάν Pi. N. 10.89; διπλᾶς καὶ ἀμφιβόλους λέξεις Ph. 1.302. 2. double-minded, treacherous, E. Rh. 395, etc.; οὐδὲν δ. X. HG 4.1.32; δ. καὶ ποικίλος D.H. Rh. 11.5; also, playing two parts, Pl. R. 397e; at variance with oneself, ib. 554d. V. διπλοῦν, τό, = δίπλωμα III, Androm. ap. Gal. 13.29, al.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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