ὅλος
holos
whole, entire, complete in all its parts
Appears 1,608 times across Aristotle's works.
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Physics 222 ▸
Open Physics ›Book I 15 ▸
Book II 15 ▸
Book III 27 ▸
Book IV 42 ▸
Chapter 6 213a12–213b29Chapter 14 222b30–224a17Book V 10 ▸
Book VI 60 ▸
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Metaphysics 172 ▸
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Book Β 4 ▸
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Book Δ 57 ▸
Chapter 3 1014a26–1014b15Chapter 9 1017b27–1018a19Chapter 16 1021b12–1022a3Chapter 18 1022a14–36Chapter 23 1023a8–25Chapter 24 1023a26–1023b11Book Ζ 14 ▸
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Book Κ 17 ▸
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History of Animals 157 ▸
Open History of Animals ›Book I 23 ▸
Chapter 4 489a20–33Chapter 6 490b7–491a26Chapter 11 492a13–493a4Chapter 17 496a4–497b2Book II 19 ▸
Chapter 2 501b5–13Chapter 8 502a16–502b23Chapter 10 502b28–503a14Book III 12 ▸
Book IV 15 ▸
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Chapter 1 558b8–559a14Chapter 8 564a7–24Chapter 15 569a10–570a2Chapter 16 570a3–24Chapter 22 575b21–577a17Chapter 32 579b15–29Book VII 5 ▸
Book VIII 27 ▸
Chapter 4 594a4–24Chapter 12 596b19–597b30Chapter 13 597b31–599a19Chapter 15 599a30–600a9Chapter 18 601a23–601b8Book IX 18 ▸
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Prior Analytics 124 ▸
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Generation of Animals 91 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 81 ▸
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Book V 26 ▸
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Book IX 5 ▸
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On the Heavens 79 ▸
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Chapter 6 273a7–274a29Chapter 11 280b1–281a27Chapter 12 281a28–283b22Book II 32 ▸
Chapter 2 284b6–286a2Chapter 12 291b24–293a14Book III 16 ▸
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Topics 71 ▸
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Rhetoric 70 ▸
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Chapter 1 1354a1–1355b24Chapter 3 1358a36–1359a29Chapter 8 1365b21–1366a22Chapter 10 1368b1–1369b32Chapter 13 1373b1–1374b23Book II 36 ▸
Chapter 9 1386b8–1387b21Chapter 12 1388b31–1389b12Chapter 18 1391b7–1392a7Chapter 24 1400b34–1402a28 -
Politics 68 ▸
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Meteorology 50 ▸
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Book II 19 ▸
Chapter 4 359b27–361b13Chapter 5 361b14–363a20Book III 6 ▸
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Parts of Animals 49 ▸
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Book II 18 ▸
Chapter 1 646a8–647b9Chapter 3 649b9–650b13Chapter 5 651a20–651b19Chapter 6 651b20–652a23Chapter 7 652a24–653b18Chapter 10 655b28–657a11Chapter 13 657a25–658a10Chapter 14 658a11–658b13Book III 13 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 45 ▸
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De Anima 41 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 35 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 34 ▸
Open On Generation and Corruption ›Book I 27 ▸
Chapter 9 326b29–327a29 -
Poetics 28 ▸
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Progression of Animals 13 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 11 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 7 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 4 ▸
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On Dreams 3 ▸
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On Divination in Sleep 2 ▸
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De Interpretatione 2 ▸
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On Sleep 2 ▸
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De Virtutibus et Vitiis 2 ▸
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Oeconomica 1 ▸
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Chapter 1 1345b7–1346a31
Dictionary (LSJ)
ὅλος, η, ον, Ion. οὖλος, η, ον, as in Hom. (twice, v. infr.), Xenoph. (v. infr.), Parm. 8.4, Hp. Acut. 14, Carn. 13, al. (but ὅλος in Hdt. 2.126, 4.64,7.167, 8.113 (cf. ἡμι-ολίας 5.88), Hp. Epid. 1.7, Herod. 3.18,5.12, 6.7 (but οὖλος 8.56) ; ὅλως dub. in Thgn. 73 codd.) :—A. whole, entire, complete in all its parts, of persons and things, ἄρτος οὖλος a whole loaf, Od. 17.343 ; μηνὶ δʼ ἄρʼ οὔλῳ in a whole month, 24.118 ; οὖλος ὁρᾷ, οὖλος δὲ νοεῖ, οὖλος δέ τʼ ἀκούει (sc. ὁ θεός) Xenoph. 24 ; ὅλος ἑσπέρας ὀφθαλμός, i.e. the full moon, Pi. O. 3.19 ; ὁ ὅ. χρόνος ib.2.30 ; τρεῖς ὅλους . . ἑκμήνους χρόνους S. OT 1136 ; ἐπʼ ὤμοις ὅλην πόλιν φέρων a whole city, E. Ph. 1131 ; ἐκπιεῖν ὅλον πίθον Id. Cyc. 217 ; ὅλους ἐκ κριβάνου βοῦς Ar. Ach. 85 ; λαβράκιον ὀπτᾶν ὅ. Antiph. 222.3, etc. ; πόλεις ὅλαι whole, entire cities, Pl. Grg. 512b ; ὅλη ἡ πόλις, the city as a whole, Id. R. 519e ; ὅλους ποιητὰς ἐκμανθάνειν learn whole poets by heart, Id. Lg. 811a : it may either precede the Art. or follow the Subst., τῆς ἡμέρας ὅλης in the course of the whole day, X. An. 3.3.11 ; διʼ ὅλης τῆς νυκτός ib.4.2.4 ; ὅλην τὴν νύκτα or τὴν νύκτα ὅλην, Id. Cyr. 7.5.15, Men. 67.2, Pl. Smp. 219c ; ὅ. τὸ δέρμα Men. 498 ; ἡ πόλις ὅ. Id. 882, etc. : less freq. between Art. and Subst., τὸν ὅ. ἀμφὶ χρόνον Pi. O. 2.30 ; ἡ ὅ. ἀδικία Pl. R. 344c ; τὸ ὅ. πρόσωπον Id. Prt. 329e ; τῇ ὅ. φάλαγγι X. An. 4.8.11 : joined with εἷς, ἡμέρας . . οὐχ ὅλης μιᾶς S. Ph. 480 ; εἶδος ἓν ὅλον Pl. Ti. 56e ; with πᾶς, ὅλην καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκίαν Id. Lg. 808a, cf. R. 486a ; πρὸς τῷ διακινδυνεύειν ὅ. καὶ πᾶς ἦν Plb. 3.94.10 (so without πᾶς, οὕτως ἔκφρων ἦν καὶ ὅλος πρὸς τῷ λήμματι καὶ τῷ δωροδοκήματι, ὥστε . . D. 19.127) ; τὸ ὅ. αὐτοῖς ἦν καὶ τὸ πᾶν Ἀπελλῆς Plb. 5.26.5. 2. whole, i. e. safe and sound, ὑγιὴς καὶ ὅ. Lys. 6.12, cf. Pl. Men. 77a. 3. entire, utter, ὅ. ἁμάρτημα an utter blunder, X. HG 5.3.7 ; πλάσμα ὅ. ἐστὶν ἡ διαθήκη utter fiction, D. 45.29. 4. neut. as Adv., ὅλον or τὸ ὅ. wholly, entirely, διαφέρει ὅ. τε καὶ πᾶν Pl. Alc. 1.109b ; διαφέρει ὅ. καὶ τὸ πᾶν Id. Lg. 944c ; ὅλῳ καὶ παντί Id. Phd. 79e ; τῷ ὅ. καὶ παντὶ διοίσει Id. R. 527c ; τῷ παντὶ καὶ ὅ. Id. Lg. 734e ; εἰς τὸ ὅ. Id. Plt. 302b : with a Prep., κατὰ ὅλον on the whole, generally, opp. ἀπολαβὼν μέρος τι, Id. R. 392d ; so κατὰ ὅλου Id. Men. 77a ; διʼ ὅλου, καθʼ ὅλου (v. διόλου, καθόλου) ; αἱ κράσεις διʼ ὅλων Plu. 2.1078c, cf. 1078d : in this signf. also without a Prep., τὸ μὲν ὅ. generally speaking, Pl. Phdr. 261a, D. 44.11 ; τὸ δʼ ὅ. and in general, in short, PTeb. 33.16 (ii B. C.) ; οὐδὲ Φιλόξενον ὅλʼ ἐξ ὅλων εὗρον I have entirely failed to find P., POxy. 936.20 (iii A. D.). 5. = πᾶς, all, ὅλων στρατηγός S. Aj. 1105, cf. Men. Pk. 225, Nonn. D. 47.482, AP 5.216 (Paul. Sil.), 7.679 (Sophronius) ; ὅλη πόλις every city, LXX 1 Ki. 14.23 ; πρὸ τῶν ὅ. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ before all things, PTeb. 418.4 (iii A. D.) ; ἀσπάζομαι . . πάντας τοὺς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ ὅ. κατʼ ὄνομα PLond. 2.404.15 (iv A. D.), cf. PIand. 13.20 (iv A. D.). II. as Subst., τὸ ὅ. the universe, Pl. Grg. 508a, Ly. 214b, etc. ; differing from τὸ πᾶν, as implying a definite order, Arist. Metaph. 1024a3, cf. Pl. Tht. 204a sq. (but as not including void, Placit. 2.1.7) ; also ἡ τῶν ὅ. τάξις X. Cyr. 8.7.22. 2. τὰ ὅ. oneʼs all, τὰ ὅ. πεπρακέναι D. 18.28 ; τοῖς ὅ. ἡττᾶσθαι lose oneʼs all, be utterly ruined, Id. 9.64 ; in full, τοῖς ὅ. πράγμασιν ἐσφαλμένος Plb. 18.33.1, etc. ; τοῖς ὅ., = ὅλως, altogether, Philipp. ap. D. 18.39 : with neg., not at all, Phld. Rh. 2.135S., Aristid. 2.274,304J. ; τοῖς ὅ. ἠφάνισαν utterly destroyed it, PRyl. 152.14 (i A. D.), cf. Aristid. 2.262J. ; κινδυνεύει τῷ ὅ. ἐξαρθῆναι there is a risk of its being entirely carried away, PRyl. 133.19 (i A. D.). III. Adv. ὅλως (Dor. οὔλως Pempel. ap.Stob. 4.25.52) wholly, altogether, ὅ. σοφόν Pl. R. 568a ; ἀλγοῦνθʼ ὅ. Id. Phlb. 36a ; ὅ. ψεύδεται he speaks utter falsehood, Isoc. 15.31, etc. 2. on the whole, speaking generally, in short, ὅ. δʼ οὐδεὶς ἔστιν ὅντινʼ οὐ πεφενάκικʼ ἐκεῖνος D. 2.7, cf. 14,al. ; διψῆν καὶ πεινῆν καὶ ὅ. τὰς ἐπιθυμίας Pl. R. 437b, cf. Cra. 406a ; τί οὖν κωλύει πάντα ἀφῃρῆσθαι καὶ ὅ. τὴν πολιτείαν ; D. 20.3 ; ὅ. εἰπεῖν Arist. Ph. 202b19, etc. 3. freq. with a neg. (first in Thgn. 73, s. v. l.), οὐχ ὅ. or ὅ. οὐ not at all, ὅ. μὴ διαλέγεσθαι X. Mem. 1.2.35 ; ὅ. οὔτʼ ἀφελὼν οὔτε προσθείς D. 3.35 ; οὔτʼ ἐλεῶν οὔθʼ ὅ. ἄνθρωπον ἡγούμενος Id. 21.101, cf. 46 ; οὐδὲ εἷς ὅ. Men. 65.9 ; μὴ ὄντος ὅ. τοῦ Σωκράτους Arist. Cat. 13b19 ; μηδὲ ὅ. εἶναι τοὺς θεούς Luc. Tim. 10. 4. actually, really, καλῶς ποιήσεις ἐλθοῦσα . . πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἵνα ὅ. ἴδωμέν σε POxy. 1676.31 (iii A. D.) ; so perh. in 1 Ep.Cor. 5.1. (ὅλ (ϝ) ος from I.-E. *sólwos, cf. Skt. sárvas ‘whole’, and perh. Lat. salus, salvus.)
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