ὁρμητικός
hormetikos
impetuous, impulsive
Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
Click a work to list every occurrence by Bekker number — each links into the reader.
Dictionary (LSJ)
ὁρμητικός, ή, όν, A. impetuous, impulsive, ὁ. [δύναμις] appetite, 102e ; ὁ. πρός τι eager for a thing, Pr. 869b13 : Sup., HA 573a27: abs., HP 9.18.10 (Comp.); -κὸν [κίνημα] 2.1122c ; -κώτερον τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ πυκτεύοντος more adapted for attack, Gym. 34. Adv. -κῶς, ἔχειν 9.401c; ὁ. ἔχειν πρός τι to be eager for a thing, HA 572a8, 141, 1.38 : Comp. -κώτερον HA 597a29. II. exciting, stimulating, Demetr.Ix. ap. 3.74b ; φαντασία -κή creating appetition, 3.40.
Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
Index Aristotelicus. Hermann Bonitz's sense-by-sense analysis of
ὁρμητικός — with the passages
he singles out as decisive for each meaning — will appear here. That curated,
interpretive selection is the layer LSJ and a raw concordance don't provide.
Digitisation in progress; this entry is not yet available.
‹ All lexicon entries