ἱστορικός

historikos

exact, precise, scientific

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Generation of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 8 757b31–758a25

757b35
Poetics 1
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Chapter 9 1451a36–1452a11

1451b1
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 4 1359a30–1360b3

1359b32

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἱστορικός, ή, όν, A. exact, precise, scientific, μίμησις Pl. Sph. 267e; τῶν παρὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις εὑρημένων ἱ. well-informed respecting . . or able to recount . . , Arist. Rh. 1359b32; ἀποδείξεις ἱστορικῶν Phld. D. 1.23. Adv. -κῶς scientifically, accurately, Arist. GA 757b35; by personal observation, καταμαθεῖν τι Gal. 14.275. II. belonging to history, historical, πραγματεῖαι D.H. 1.1; τύπος (opp. λογικός) Id. Dem. 24; ἀναγραφή Id. 1.4; γράμματα Plu. Them. 13: Subst., historian, Arist. Po. 1451b1, Aristeas 31, Phld. Rh. 1.200S., D.H. 4.6, D.S. 1.6, etc.; -ώτατος βασιλέων Plu. Sert. 9. Adv. -κῶς, ἱ. καὶ διδασκαλικῶς Str. 1.1.10; ἱ. καὶ ἐξηγητικῶς, opp. ἀποδεικτικῶς, Phld. Mus.p.12 K.; but ἐξηγητικώτερον ἢ -ώτερον, of Aristotleʼs method in HA, Antig. Mir. 60.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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