ἔχω
echo
have, hold
Appears 6,774 times across Aristotle's works.
in Aristotle 4,139× · before him 4,097 · contemporaries 8,778
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History of Animals 1,346 ▸
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Chapter 2 501b5–13Chapter 6 502a3–4Chapter 8 502a16–502b23Chapter 11 503a15–503b28Chapter 12 503b29–504b12Chapter 13 504b13–505b4Chapter 15 505b25–506b23Chapter 17 506b32–509a23- 506b32
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Book III 182 ▸
Chapter 1 509a27–511a35Chapter 7 516a8–516b30Chapter 20 521b4–522b5Book IV 249 ▸
Chapter 1 523a31–525a29Chapter 2 525a30–527a35Chapter 4 527b35–530a31Chapter 7 531b20–532b28Chapter 8 532b29–535a26Chapter 9 535a27–536b23Book V 109 ▸
Chapter 3 540a27–32Chapter 6 541b1–18Chapter 13 544a25–544b11Chapter 17 549a14–549b28Chapter 20 552b26–553a16Chapter 28 555b18–556a7Book VI 25 ▸
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Parts of Animals 880 ▸
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Generation of Animals 514 ▸
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Chapter 10 718b32–35Chapter 15 720b15–721a1Chapter 18 722a1–726a27Chapter 22 730a32–730b32Book II 127 ▸
Chapter 1 731b18–735a28Chapter 3 736a24–737b7Chapter 4 737b8–741a5Chapter 6 741b25–745b20Chapter 7 745b21–747a22Book III 106 ▸
Chapter 1 749a10–752a8Chapter 10 759a8–761a11Book IV 87 ▸
Chapter 1 763b20–766b26Chapter 2 766b27–767a35Chapter 4 769b30–773a29Book V 64 ▸
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Metaphysics 449 ▸
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Politics 403 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 347 ▸
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Chapter 5 1095b14–1096a10Chapter 8 1098b9–1099b8Book II 34 ▸
Chapter 3 1104b3–1105a16Book III 26 ▸
Chapter 3 1112a18–1113a14Book IV 27 ▸
Chapter 4 1125b1–25Chapter 7 1127a13–1127b32Chapter 9 1128b10–35Book V 46 ▸
Chapter 6 1134a17–1134b17Book VI 53 ▸
Chapter 3 1139b14–36Chapter 10 1142b34–1143a18Book VII 48 ▸
Chapter 3 1146b8–1147b19Chapter 4 1147b20–1148b14Chapter 12 1152b25–1153a35Chapter 13 1153b1–1154a7Book VIII 22 ▸
Chapter 1 1155a3–1155b16Chapter 4 1156b33–1157b4Chapter 6 1158a1–1158b10Chapter 7 1158b11–1159a11Chapter 10 1160a31–1161a9Book IX 35 ▸
Chapter 7 1167b17–1168a27Chapter 8 1168a28–1169b2Chapter 11 1171a21–1171b28Chapter 12 1171b29–1172a15Book X 24 ▸
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Rhetoric 278 ▸
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On the Heavens 270 ▸
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Chapter 10 279b4–280a34Book II 104 ▸
Chapter 1 283b26–284b5Chapter 7 289a11–35Chapter 10 291a29–291b10Chapter 11 291b11–23Chapter 13 293a15–296a23Book III 43 ▸
Chapter 1 298a24–300a19Chapter 2 300a20–302a9Chapter 6 304b23–305a32Chapter 7 305a33–306b2Book IV 52 ▸
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Physics 242 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 156 ▸
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Chapter 5 74a4–74b4Chapter 8 75b21–36Chapter 17 80b17–81a37Chapter 18 81a38–81b9Chapter 20 82a21–35Chapter 25 86a31–86b39Chapter 34 89b10–20Book II 67 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 144 ▸
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Chapter 2 1214b6–27Chapter 7 1217a18–40Book II 46 ▸
Chapter 2 1220a38–1220b20Book III 25 ▸
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Prior Analytics 115 ▸
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Chapter 7 29a19–29b28Chapter 11 31a18–32a5Chapter 20 39a4–39b6Chapter 21 39b7–40a3Chapter 23 40b17–41b5Chapter 24 41b6–35Chapter 27 43a20–43b38Chapter 31 46a31–46b39Chapter 35 48a29–39Book II 40 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 102 ▸
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Progression of Animals 91 ▸
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Physiognomonics 87 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 65 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 48 ▸
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Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
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ἔχω — with the passages
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