Aristotle Greek Lexicon ἐπιθυμητικός

ἐπιθυμητικός

epithymetikos

desiring, coveting

Appears 30 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

Click a work to list every occurrence by Bekker number — each links into the reader.

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἐπιθυμητικός (hyperdor. ἐπιθῡμ-ᾱτικός Diotog. ap. Stob. 4.7.62), ή, όν, A. desiring, coveting, lusting after, τινός Pl. R. 475b, al.; τὸ ἐ. that part of the soul which is the seat of the desires and affections, ib.439e, Arist. EN 1102b30, etc. Adv. -κῶς, ἔχειν τινός, = ἐπιθυμεῖν, Hell.Oxy. 16.4, Pl. Phd. 108a, Isoc. 15.244, D.L. 8.1; ἐ. διακεῖσθαι Palaeph. 23.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

Index Aristotelicus. Hermann Bonitz's sense-by-sense analysis of ἐπιθυμητικός — with the passages he singles out as decisive for each meaning — will appear here. That curated, interpretive selection is the layer LSJ and a raw concordance don't provide. Digitisation in progress; this entry is not yet available.
‹ All lexicon entries