ἥκιστος
hekistos
least
Appears 92 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Politics 15 ▸
Open Politics › Book II 5 ▸
Chapter 3 1261b16–1262a24
Chapter 4 1262a25–1262b36
Chapter 9 1269a29–1271b19
Book IV 3 ▸
Chapter 8 1293b22–1294a29
Chapter 11 1295a25–1296b12
Book V 4 ▸
Chapter 1 1301a19–1302a15
Chapter 10 1310a39–1313a14
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10
Book VII 1 ▸
Book VIII 2 ▸
Chapter 5 1339a11–1340b19
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History of Animals 11 ▸
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Topics 11 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 10 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics › Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 13 1102a5–1103a10
Book III 1 ▸
Book IV 3 ▸
Chapter 1 1119b22–1122a17
Chapter 3 1123a34–1125a35
Book VIII 3 ▸
Chapter 10 1160a31–1161a9
Chapter 11 1161a10–1161b10
Book IX 1 ▸
Chapter 11 1171a21–1171b28
Book X 1 ▸
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Rhetoric 7 ▸
Open Rhetoric › Book II 3 ▸
Chapter 4 1380b35–1382a19
Chapter 12 1388b31–1389b12
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33
Book III 4 ▸
Chapter 12 1413b3–1414a30
Chapter 14 1414b19–1416a3
Chapter 16 1416b16–1417b20
Chapter 17 1417b21–1418b39
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On the Heavens 6 ▸
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Generation of Animals 5 ▸
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Metaphysics 5 ▸
Open Metaphysics › Book Κ 1 ▸
Chapter 6 1062b12–1063b35
Book Λ 1 ▸
Chapter 10 1075a11–1076a4
Book Ν 3 ▸
Chapter 1 1087a29–1088b13
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Parts of Animals 5 ▸
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Meteorology 4 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 2 ▸
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Oeconomica 2 ▸
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Physics 2 ▸
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Poetics 2 ▸
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De Audibilibus 1 ▸
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On Colours 1 ▸
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De Lineis Insecabilibus 1 ▸
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Physiognomonics 1 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 1 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
ἥκιστος, η, ον, prob., like foreg., Sup. of ἦκα, A. least, ὁ δʼ ἥκιστʼ ἔχων μακάρτατος S. Fr. 410. 2. c. inf., worst at . . , ἥ. θηρᾶν, κρυμῷ ὁμιλεῖν, Ael. NA 9.1,4.31 (cf. foreg.). II. mostly as Adv., ἥκιστα least, Hp. Acut. 68, S. Ph. 427, etc.; οὐκ ἥ. ἀλλὰ μάλιστα Hdt. 4.170; ὡς ἥ. as little as possible, Th. 1.91. 2. in reply to a question, not at all, S. OT 623, E. HF 299, etc.; ἥκιστά γε S. OT 1386, Pl. Phdr. 276c; ἥ. πάντων Ar. Pl. 440. 3. οὐχ ἥ., freq. in litotes, above all, more than all, A. Ch. 116; οἵ τε ἄλλοι καὶ οὐχ ἥ. Ἀθηναῖοι Pl. Prt. 324c, cf. Tht. 177c, Smp. 178a, al.; ἐπὶ πολλῶν μέν . . , οὐχ ἥ. δὲ ἐν τοῖς παροῦσι πράγμασι D. 2.1, cf. Th. 7.44, etc.: c. gen., οὐχ ἥ. Ἀθηναίων σέ, ἀλλʼ ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα Pl. Cri. 52a.
Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
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