εὐεργετικός

euergetikos

productive of benefit, beneficent

Appears 5 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 4
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Book I 3
Chapter 5 1360b4–1362a14

1361a28

Chapter 9 1366a23–1368a37

1366a38
1366b4
Book II 1
Chapter 11 1388a31–1388b30

1388b12
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book IX 1
Chapter 11 1171a21–1171b28

1171b16

Dictionary (LSJ)

εὐεργετικός, ή, όν, A. productive of benefit, beneficent, ὠφέλιμα καὶ εὐ. Arist. Rh. 1388b12, cf. Phld. Piet. 11, etc.; δόξα εὐ. a reputation for beneficence, Arist. Rh. 1361a28; ἀρετὴ δύναμις εὐ. πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ib.1366a38: c. gen.pers., φιλανθρωπία ἕξις εὐ. ἀνθρώπων Pl. Def. 412e; τὸ εὐ. beneficence, D.S. 1.25: Comp., τὸ -ώτερον Hdn. 6.9.8; of persons, beneficent, bountiful, εὐεργετικὸν (v.l. -τητικὸν) εἶναι καλόν Arist. EN 1171b16, etc.; εὐ. χρηστὸς φιλάνθρωπος Muson. Fr. 8p.39H.: Sup. -ώτατος, εἰς τοὺς Ἕλληνας Plb. 7.8.6. Adv. -κῶς, διακείμενος OGI 90.11 (Rosetta, Ptol. V), cf. IG 5(2).266.13 (Mantinea, i B. C.).

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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