ἐκλέπω

eklepo

free from shell

Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 18
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Book V 5
Chapter 20 552b26–553a16

553a8

Chapter 33 557b32–558a24

558a7
558a10
558a15

Chapter 34 558a25–558b4

558b3
Book VI 12
Chapter 2 559a15–561a3

559a30
559b4
559b29
560a1

Chapter 3 561a4–562b2

561a11
562a30

Chapter 4 562b3–563a4

562b19
562b20

Chapter 6 563a17–563b13

563a17
563a19

Chapter 8 564a7–24

564a22

Chapter 9 564a25–564b13

564a27
Book IX 1
Chapter 8 613b6–614a33

613b12
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book V 1
Chapter 6 1134a17–1134b17

1134a22
Book VII 1
Chapter 6 1149a24–1150a8

1149b17
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 13 1373b1–1374b23

1374a15

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἐκλέπω, A. free from shell or rind, peel, κόκκους Hp. Mul. 1.81,84; of crocodiles and birds,hatch their young, Hdt. 2.68, Cratin. 108, cf. Ar. Av. 1108; of serpents, Hdt. 3.109; of insects and tortoises, Arist. HA 553a8, 558a10:—Pass., fut. ἐκλᾰπήσομαι v.l. (ap. Erot.) in Hp. Nat.Puer. 29: aor. ἐκλᾰπῆναι Ar. Fr. 164.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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