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ἔχθρα

echthra

hatred, enmity

Appears 16 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἔχθρα, Ion. ἔχθρη, ἡ, A. hatred, enmity, Hdt. 5.81, Pi. P. 4.145, etc.: in philos. sense, = νεῖκος I.5, Plot. 3.2.2; ἔ. τινός hatred for, enmity to one, Antipho 2.4.1, Th. 3.10; κατʼ ἔχθραν τινός Ar. Pax 133; ἔ. ἔς τινα Hdt. 1.5, Th. 2.68; εἴς θεόν Ep.Rom. 8.7; πρός τινα A. Pr. 491 (pl.), Th. 2.68; διʼ ἔχθρας μολεῖν, ἀφῖχθαί τινι, to be at feud with one, E. Ph. 479, Hipp. 1164; διʼ ἔχθρας οὐδετέρῳ γενήσομαι Ar. Ra. 1412; εἰς ἔ. βάλλειν τινά A. Pr. 390; εἰς ἔ. ἐλθεῖν D. 21.62; καταστῆσαί τινας εἰς ἔχθραν τῷ δήμῳ X. HG 3.5.9; πολλὴν εἰς ἔχθραν ἀλλήλοις καὶ πολλῶν πέρι καθίστανται Pl. Plt. 307d, cf. Isoc. 9.67; πρὸς ἔχθραν from personal enmity, D. 18.141; ἔ. συμβάλλειν, συνάπτειν τινί, to engage in hostility with . . , E. Med. 45, Heracl. 459; ἔ. τισὶν ἄρασθαι D. 21.132; καταλλάσσεσθαι τὰς ἔ. Hdt. 7.145; λύσασαν ἔ. τὴν πάρος E. Tr. 50; τὰς μεγάλας ἔ. διαλύεσθαι Th. 4.19; πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἔ. ἀνείλοντο Is. 1.9; διαλλαχθῆναι τῆς ἔ. And. 2.26: prov., Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔ., of undying hatred, Lys. Fr. 261 S.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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