εὐνομέομαι

eunomeomai

have good laws, be well-ordered

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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

Politics 5
Open Politics ›
Book II 1
Chapter 1 1260b27–1261a9

1260b30
Book IV 2
Chapter 8 1293b22–1294a29

1294a1
1294a3
Book VII 2
Chapter 4 1325b33–1326b25

1326a26

Chapter 6 1327a11–1327b19

1327a12
Movement of Animals 1
Open Movement of Animals ›
Chapter 10 703a4–703b2

703a30
Rhetoric 1
Open Rhetoric ›
Book I 1
Chapter 1 1354a1–1355b24

1354a20

Dictionary (LSJ)

εὐνομέομαι, fut. -ήσομαι Hdt. 1.97, Pl. R. 380b: aor. 1 εὐνομήθην Hdt. 1.66, ηὐν- Th. 1.18: pf. εὐνόμημαι Epimenid. ap. D.L. 1.113:— A. have good laws, be well-ordered, Hdt. ll.cc., Th. 1.18, etc.; [πόλις] μέλλει εὐνομήσεσθαι Pl. l. c.; πόλις -ουμένη D. 24.139, cf. Arist. Rh. 1354a20, Pol. 1294a3; οἰκία οὐκ εὐ. Aeschin. 1.171; ἰσχύσετε, ὅταν εὐνομῆσθε when you observe the laws, ib.5. (Act. only in pres. part. εὐνομοῦσα Pl. Lg. 927b.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

Index Aristotelicus. Hermann Bonitz's sense-by-sense analysis of εὐνομέομαι — 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