ἐπανισόω

epanisoo

make equal, balance evenly

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book V 1
Chapter 4 1131b25–1132b20

1132a25
Book VIII 1
Chapter 14 1163a24–1163b28

1163b11
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 20 477a32–478a10

478a3
Parts of Animals 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 647b10–649b8

648a26

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἐπανισόω, A. make equal, balance evenly, τινὰς πρὸς ἀλλήλους Th. 8.57; ἐ. τὰ μέτρα IG 22.1013.15; τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς τὸ διαφέρον Just. Nov. 92.1Intr.; τὰς τῆς κράστεως πλεονεξίας Ruf.(?) ap. Orib.inc.4.2; τὸ ἐλαττούμενον Polyaen. 7.16.2; reduce, εἰς τὸ μέτριον τὴν ὑπερβολήν Arist. Resp. 478a3; τἆλλα οὕτως ἐπανισῶν ἔνεμε the others likewise he made equal to one another, distributing to them their faculties, Pl. Prt. 321a:—Pass., to be made equal, τινί Id. Lg. 745d.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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