ἐλάσσων
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Appears 812 times across Aristotle's works.
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History of Animals 161 ▸
Open History of Animals ›Book I 5 ▸
Book II 16 ▸
Book III 27 ▸
Chapter 7 516a8–516b30Chapter 10 517b3–20Chapter 17 520a6–520b2Book IV 13 ▸
Book V 22 ▸
Chapter 7 541b19–33Chapter 8 541b34–542b16Chapter 13 544a25–544b11Chapter 16 548a22–549a13Chapter 17 549a14–549b28Chapter 18 549b29–550b21Chapter 20 552b26–553a16Chapter 22 553b7–554b21Chapter 27 555a27–555b17Chapter 33 557b32–558a24Book VI 27 ▸
Chapter 7 563b14–564a6Chapter 9 564a25–564b13Chapter 12 566b2–567a16Chapter 17 570a25–571b2Chapter 19 573b17–574a15Chapter 30 579a18–30Chapter 31 579a31–579b14Book VII 4 ▸
Book VIII 19 ▸
Book IX 28 ▸
Chapter 7 612b18–613b5Chapter 8 613b6–614a33Chapter 14 616a14–34Chapter 19 617a11–17Chapter 21 617a23–27Chapter 22 617a28–617b5Chapter 25 617b19–22Chapter 30 618a31–618b8Chapter 32 618b18–619b12Chapter 33 619b13–17Chapter 36 620a17–620b9Chapter 39 622b27–623b4Chapter 41 627b23–628b31 -
Physics 76 ▸
Open Physics ›Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 3 194b16–195b30Book IV 11 ▸
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Mechanica 67 ▸
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On the Heavens 66 ▸
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Generation of Animals 53 ▸
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Book II 8 ▸
Book III 11 ▸
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Politics 50 ▸
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Chapter 9 1256b40–1258a18Book II 7 ▸
Book III 13 ▸
Book IV 6 ▸
Book V 14 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 49 ▸
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Book IV 11 ▸
Book V 22 ▸
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Book IX 1 ▸
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Prior Analytics 47 ▸
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Meteorology 43 ▸
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Rhetoric 35 ▸
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Metaphysics 27 ▸
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Chapter 5 1009a6–1011a2Book Ζ 1 ▸
Chapter 10 1034b20–1036a25Book Η 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1042a3–1042b8Book Ι 9 ▸
Book Λ 1 ▸
Chapter 8 1073a14–1074b14Book Μ 6 ▸
Book Ν 1 ▸
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Parts of Animals 27 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 19 ▸
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Topics 17 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 15 ▸
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Categories 4 ▸
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De Mundo 4 ▸
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Movement of Animals 4 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 4 ▸
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Oeconomica 4 ▸
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Progression of Animals 3 ▸
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On Length and Shortness of Life 3 ▸
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On Memory 3 ▸
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Poetics 3 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 3 ▸
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Sense and Sensibilia 3 ▸
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On Colours 2 ▸
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On Dreams 2 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 2 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1 ▸
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Physiognomonics 1 ▸
Open Physiognomonics ›Chapter 3 807a31–808b10
Dictionary (LSJ)
ἐλάσσων, Att. ἐλάττων, ον, gen. ονος: Sup. ἐλάχιστος (q.v.): —A. smaller, less, formed from ἐλαχύς (q.v.), but serving as Comp. to μικρός, δουρηνεκὲς ἢ καὶ ἔλασσον Il. 10.357; τοὔλασσον ἔχειν to have the worse, be worse off, πάντῃ Thgn. 269; οὐδὲν ἔλασσον ἔχειν τῇ μάχῃ Hdt. 9.102; ἔ. ἔχειν παρά τινι D. 21.187; ἐλάττων γίγνεσθαι Ar. Eq. 441, D. 3.29; οὐκ ἐλάσσονα πάσχειν A. Pers. 813; ἐλάττω νομίσας τὴν ἀρχὴν ἢ κατὰ τὴν αὑτοῦ φύσιν εἶναι too small for . ., Isoc. 11.11: abs., too small, Thphr. Char. 23.9; below the average in height, PLips. 1.9, etc. 2. c. gen. pers., worse than, inferior to, Ar. V. 599, etc.: but c. gen. rei, giving way to, subservient to, σιτίων X. Lac. 5.8; πάθους Plu. Cor. 34: abs., worse, inferior, τόποι Gp. 2.48.1. 3. neut. with Preps., περὶ ἐλάσσονος ποιεῖσθαι to consider of less account, Hdt. 6.6; ἐν ἐλάττονι θέσθαι Plb. 4.6.12; παρʼ ἔλαττον τοῦ δέοντος ἡγεῖσθαι Pl. R. 546d; ἐπʼ ἔλαττον (sc. ἁρμοσθῆναι) Id. Phd. 93b; διʼ ἐλάσσονος at less distance, Th. 7.4; πάντʼ ἐν ἐλάττονι ποιεῖσθαι τῆς ἡδονῆς Heraclid.Pont. ap.Ath. 12.537c. II. of Number, fewer, οἱ ἐλάσσονες the minority, Hdt. 3.121; ἐλάσσονες ἀριθμόν Id. 8.66; ἔ. πλῆθος Th. 1.49. III. of Time, shorter, Pl. Plt. 295c, etc. IV. of worth or rank, οἱ ἐ. the meaner sort, Isoc. 2.13, Alex. 116.12. V. neut. ἔλασσον, as Adv., ἔ. ἢ μηδέν A. Pr. 938, cf. S. El. 598, Pl. R. 564d, etc.; ἔ. ἄπωθεν less far off, Th. 4.67; πλείω ἔλαττον, with numbers, more or less, PLips. 28.10 (iv A.D.), etc.: neut. pl., as Adv.,= ἐλαττονάκις, Pl. Cri. 53a, al.: regul. Adv. ἐλασσόνως (q.v.). VI. with indecl. Numerals, the ἤ of Comparison is often omitted, οὐκ ἐλάττους ὀγδοήκοντα D.S. 14.8; esp. in Adv. ἔλασσον, as μὴ ἔ. δέκα ἔτη Pl. Lg. 856d,al. (Orig. ἐλάχγων, cf. ἐλάχ-ιστος, ἐλαχύς.)
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