ὁλόκληρος

holokleros

complete, entire, perfect

Appears 5 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book VII 1
Chapter 2 1235b13–1238b14

1235b36
Book VIII 1
Chapter 3 1248b8–1249b25

1248b34
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book IV 2
Chapter 1 1119b22–1122a17

1121b19

Chapter 5 1125b26–1126b10

1126a12
History of Animals 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 6 585b5–586a14

585b36

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὁλόκληρος, ον, A. complete, entire, perfect, opp. κολοβός, Arist. HA 585b36 ; uncastrated, κίχλαι Pl.Com. 174.9 ; τοὺς ἱερέας ὁ. νόμος εἶναι Anaxandr. 39.10, cf. Men. 233, Luc. Asin. 33 ; ὁ. ὑγιής τε Pl. Ti. 44c ; σῶμα Diog.Oen. 39 ; ὁ. μὲν . . ὄντες καὶ ἀπαθεῖς κακῶν . . , ὁ. δὲ . . καὶ εὐδαίμονα φάσματα μυούμενοι perfect, complete, Pl. Phdr. 250c ; ὁ. καὶ γνήσιον Id. Lg. 759c ; ἐν ὁ. δέρματι Luc. Philops. 8 ; also of evils, ὁ. πήρωσις Democr. 296 ; [ἡ ἀνελευθερία] οὐ πᾶσιν ὁ. παραγίνεται Arist. EN 1121b19, cf. 1126a12 ; simply, whole, complete, ἔτεσιν δυσὶν οὐχ ὁλοκλήρ[οι]ς IG 14.1386 ; ὁ. βουλευτήριον BGU 1027.12 (iv A. D.) ; ὁ. οἰκία PLond. 3.930.13, etc. ; ὁ. κολλούρια drug-pencils used as wholes, for insertion in cavities, Antyll. ap. Orib. 10.23.1. Adv. -ρως Erot. s.v. ἀπαρτί, S.E. P. 3.226, Gal. 16.68, Hld. 7.8.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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