ἅμα
hama
at once, at the same time
Appears 897 times across Aristotle's works.
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Physics 145 ▸
Open Physics ›Book I 5 ▸
Book III 12 ▸
Book IV 33 ▸
Chapter 2 209a31–210a13Chapter 5 212a31–213a11Chapter 7 213b30–214b11Chapter 9 216b22–217b28Chapter 13 222a10–222b29Book V 14 ▸
Book VI 19 ▸
Book VII 15 ▸
Book VIII 45 ▸
Chapter 3 253a22–254b6Chapter 4 254b7–256a3Chapter 6 258b10–260a19Chapter 8 261b27–265a12Chapter 9 265a13–266a9 -
Metaphysics 113 ▸
Open Metaphysics ›Book Β 7 ▸
Book Γ 29 ▸
Chapter 8 1012a29–1012b31Book Δ 8 ▸
Book Ζ 8 ▸
Book Θ 15 ▸
Book Ι 6 ▸
Book Λ 4 ▸
Book Μ 19 ▸
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History of Animals 56 ▸
Open History of Animals ›Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 11 492a13–493a4Book II 7 ▸
Book V 10 ▸
Book VI 18 ▸
Chapter 3 561a4–562b2Chapter 6 563a17–563b13Chapter 12 566b2–567a16Chapter 14 568a11–569a9Chapter 15 569a10–570a2Chapter 17 570a25–571b2Book VII 6 ▸
Book VIII 6 ▸
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Generation of Animals 41 ▸
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Rhetoric 40 ▸
Open Rhetoric ›Book I 12 ▸
Book II 17 ▸
Chapter 2 1378a30–1380a9Chapter 3 1380a10–1380b34Chapter 4 1380b35–1382a19Chapter 5 1382a20–1383b10Chapter 10 1387b22–1388a30Chapter 12 1388b31–1389b12Chapter 13 1389b13–1390a27Chapter 16 1390b32–1391a19Chapter 24 1400b34–1402a28Chapter 25 1402a29–1403a15Book III 11 ▸
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19Chapter 7 1408a10–1408b20Chapter 8 1408b21–1409a21Chapter 9 1409a22–1410b5Chapter 10 1410b6–1411b21Chapter 14 1414b19–1416a3Chapter 16 1416b16–1417b20 -
Meteorology 39 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 35 ▸
Open Eudemian Ethics ›Book II 7 ▸
Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 5 1232a19–1233a30Book VII 23 ▸
Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1246a26–1246b36 -
Sense and Sensibilia 34 ▸
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On the Heavens 31 ▸
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Politics 29 ▸
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Prior Analytics 27 ▸
Open Prior Analytics ›Book I 17 ▸
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De Anima 27 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 27 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics ›Book VII 4 ▸
Book VIII 9 ▸
Book IX 3 ▸
Book X 1 ▸
Chapter 5 1175a21–1176a29 -
On Generation and Corruption 24 ▸
Open On Generation and Corruption ›Book I 14 ▸
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Parts of Animals 24 ▸
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Topics 22 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 21 ▸
Open Posterior Analytics ›Book I 11 ▸
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Mechanica 18 ▸
Open Mechanica ›Chapter 2 848b1–850a2Chapter 8 851b6–852a13Chapter 20 853b25–854a15Chapter 21 854a16–31Chapter 26 857a5–21Chapter 30 857b21–858a2 -
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 15 ▸
Open On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration ›Chapter 1 467b10–468a12Chapter 3 468b16–469a26Chapter 4 469a27–469b20Chapter 10 471b30–472b5Chapter 13 473a15–474a24Chapter 16 475b15–476a15Chapter 17 476a16–476b12Chapter 18 476b13–477a10Chapter 19 477a11–31Chapter 21 478a11–25 -
Sophistical Refutations 15 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 10 ▸
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De Lineis Insecabilibus 4 ▸
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On Length and Shortness of Life 3 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 3 ▸
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On Memory 3 ▸
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Physiognomonics 3 ▸
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On Dreams 1 ▸
Open On Dreams ›Chapter 2 459a23–460b27
Dictionary (LSJ)
ἅμα [ᾰμ], Dor. ἁμᾶ, q.v.: (v. sub fin.): A. Adv. at once, at the same time, mostly of Time, freq. added to τε . . καί, ἅμʼ οἰμωγή τε καὶ εὐχωλή Il. 8.64; ἅ. τʼ ὠκύμορος καὶ ὀϊζυρός 1.417; σέ θʼ ἅ. κλαίω καὶ ἐμέ 24.773; σαυτόν θʼ ἅ. κἀμέ S. Ph. 772, cf. 119; ἄνους τε καὶ γέρων ἅ. Ant. 281:—with καί only, ἅ. πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω Il. 3.109; with τε . . τε, χειρῶν τε βίης θʼ ἅ. ἔργον ἔφαινον Hes. Th. 677. 2. ἅ. μέν . . ἅ. δέ . . , partly . . partly . . , Pl. Phd. 115d, X HG 3.1.3:—ἅ. τε . . καὶ ἅ. Pl. Grg. 497a; ἅμʼ ἡδέως ἔμοιγε κἀλγεινῶς ἅμα S. Ant. 436. 3. in Prose ἅ. δέ . . καί . . , ἅ. τε . . καί . . , ἅ. . . καί . . may often be translated by no sooner . . than . . , ἅ. δὲ ταῦτα ἔλεγε καὶ ἀπεδείκνυε Hdt. 1.112; ταῦγά τε ἅμα ἠγόρευε καὶ πέμπει 8.5; ἅ. ἀκηκόαμέν τε καὶ τριηράρχους καθίσταμεν D. 4.36; ἅ. διαλλάττονται καὶ τῆς ἔχθρας ἐπιλανθάνονται Isoc. 4.157. b. ἅ. μῦθος ἔην, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον ‘no sooner said than done’, Il. 19.242; ἅ. ἔπος τε καὶ ἔργον ἐμήδετο h.Merc. 46; ταῦτα εἶπε καὶ ἅ. ἔπος τε καὶ ἔργον ἐποίεε Hdt. 3.134, cf. 9.92: prov., ἅμʼ ἔπος ἅμʼ ἔργον Diogenian. 1.36. c. with part. and finite Verb in same sense, βρίζων ἅ. . . ἐξήμελξας εὐτραφὲς γάλα A. Ch. 897; ἅ. εἰπὼν ἀνέστη as soon as he had done speaking, he stood up, X. An. 3.1.47; τῆς ἀγγελίας ἅ. ῥηθείσης ἐπεβοήθουν as soon as news was brought they assisted, Th. 2.5; ἅ. γιγνόμενοι λαμβάνομεν Pl. Phd. 76c; ἡμῖν ἅ. ἀναπαυομένοις ὁ παῖς ἀναγνώσεται Tht. 143b. 4. ἅ. μέν . . ἔτι δέ . . X. Cyr. 1.4.3; ἅ. μέν . . πρὸς δέ . . Hdt. 8.51. II. together, at once, both, without direct ref. to time, ἅ. πάντες or πάντες ἅ. Il. 1.495, al.; ἅ. ἄμφω h.Cer. 15; ἅ. κρατερὸς καὶ ἀμύμων Od. 3.111, etc.: of Place, Arist. Metaph. 1028b27. III. with σύν or μετά, E. Ion 717, Pl. Criti. 110a. IV. abs. with Verb, at one and the same time, αἱ πᾶσαι [νῆες] ἅ. ἐγίγνοντο ἐν ἑνὶ θέρει σ καὶ ν Th. 3.17, cf. οὐχ ἅ. ἡ κτῆσις παραγίγνεται D. 23.113. B. Prep. with dat. (freq. with part. added), at the same time with, together with, ἅμʼ ἠοῖ φαινομένηφι at dawn, Il. 9.682, al.; ἅ. ἕῳ, ἅ. ἕῳ γιγνομένῃ, Th. 1.48, 4.32; ἅμʼ ἠελίῳ ἀνιόντι or καταδύντι at sunrise or sunset, Il. 18.136,210, al.; ἅμʼ ἡμέρῃ διαφωσκούσῃ Hdt. 3.86, al.; ἅμʼ ἡμέρᾳ E. El. 78, Th. 2.94, etc., Att.; ἅμʼ ἦρι ἀρχομένῳ or ἅ. ἦρι at beginning of spring, Th. 5.20, 2.2, etc.; ἅ. κήδεϊ κεκάρθαι τὰς κεφαλάς during the time of . . , Hdt. 2.36; ἅ. τειχισμῷ Th. 7.20; ἅμα τῷ διαυγάζειν Plb. 3.104.5 (without Art. ἅμα εὑρεθῆναι Ps.-Plu. Fluv. 23.2). 2. generally, together with, ἅ. τινὶ στείχειν Il. 16.257; ὀπάσσαι 24.461, al.; Ἑλένην καὶ κτήμαθʼ ἅμʼ αὐτῇ 3.458; ἅ. πνοιῇς ἀνέμοιο keeping pace with the wind, Od. 1.98; repeated, ἅμʼ αὐτῷ . . ἅμʼ ἕποντο 11.371; οἱ ἅ. Θόαντι Hdt. 6.138, cf. Th. 7.57. II. rarely c. gen., Herod. 4.95, POxy. 903 (iv A. D.), Pythag. Sim. 28, Olymp.Hist. p.453 D.; dub. in Thphr. Char. 6.9. C. Conj., as soon as, ἅ. ἂν ἡβήσῃ τις τῶν ὀρφανῶν Pl. Lg. 928c, cf. Lex ap.D. 46.20; ἅ. κα διεξέλθῃ ὁ χρόνος GDI 2160 (Delph., ii B. C.). (Root sṃ-, cf. A α 11.)
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