ὅσπερ
hosper-2
the very man who, the very thing which
Appears 410 times across Aristotle's works.
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Politics 39 ▸
Open Politics › Book I 4 ▸
Chapter 10 1258a19–1258b8
Chapter 12 1259a37–1259b17
Book II 8 ▸
Chapter 3 1261b16–1262a24
Chapter 5 1262b37–1264b25
Chapter 9 1269a29–1271b19
Chapter 11 1272b24–1273b26
Book III 4 ▸
Chapter 13 1283a23–1284b34
Chapter 14 1284b35–1285b32
Chapter 15 1285b33–1286b40
Book IV 3 ▸
Chapter 4 1290a30–1292a38
Chapter 9 1294a30–1294b41
Chapter 14 1297b35–1299a2
Book V 11 ▸
Chapter 6 1305a37–1306b21
Chapter 7 1306b22–1307b25
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10
Book VI 2 ▸
Book VII 5 ▸
Chapter 4 1325b33–1326b25
Chapter 7 1327b20–1328a20
Chapter 14 1332b12–1334a10
Book VIII 2 ▸
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Metaphysics 37 ▸
Open Metaphysics › Book Α 1 ▸
Book Β 2 ▸
Book Γ 13 ▸
Chapter 2 1003a33–1005a18
Book Δ 1 ▸
Chapter 15 1020b26–1021b11
Book Ζ 7 ▸
Chapter 11 1036a26–1037b7
Chapter 13 1038b1–1039a23
Book Η 3 ▸
Book Θ 1 ▸
Chapter 10 1051a34–1052a11
Book Ι 2 ▸
Book Κ 2 ▸
Chapter 7 1063b36–1064b14
Chapter 12 1068a8–1069a14
Book Λ 1 ▸
Chapter 10 1075a11–1076a4
Book Μ 2 ▸
Book Ν 2 ▸
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Physics 35 ▸
Open Physics › Book I 23 ▸
Book IV 2 ▸
Book V 4 ▸
Book VII 1 ▸
Book VIII 5 ▸
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Topics 33 ▸
Open Topics › Book I 1 ▸
Book II 3 ▸
Book III 4 ▸
Book IV 18 ▸
Book VI 4 ▸
Book VII 1 ▸
Book VIII 2 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 29 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics › Book II 5 ▸
Chapter 1 1103a14–1103b25
Chapter 6 1106a14–1107a27
Chapter 9 1109a20–1109b26
Book III 3 ▸
Chapter 8 1116a15–1117a28
Chapter 10 1117b23–1118b7
Book IV 1 ▸
Book V 7 ▸
Chapter 3 1131a10–1131b24
Chapter 5 1132b21–1134a16
Chapter 9 1136a10–1137a30
Book VI 2 ▸
Chapter 2 1138b35–1139b13
Book VII 1 ▸
Book VIII 2 ▸
Book IX 7 ▸
Chapter 1 1163b32–1164b21
Chapter 2 1164b22–1165a35
Chapter 5 1166b30–1167a21
Chapter 7 1167b17–1168a27
Book X 1 ▸
Chapter 5 1175a21–1176a29
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Rhetoric 28 ▸
Open Rhetoric › Book I 6 ▸
Chapter 2 1355b25–1358a35
Chapter 9 1366a23–1368a37
Chapter 14 1374b24–1375a21
Book II 7 ▸
Chapter 4 1380b35–1382a19
Chapter 13 1389b13–1390a27
Chapter 20 1393a23–1394a18
Chapter 21 1394a19–1395b20
Chapter 26 1403a16–1404a5
Book III 15 ▸
Chapter 5 1407a19–1407b25
Chapter 11 1411b22–1413b2
Chapter 12 1413b3–1414a30
Chapter 13 1414a31–1414b18
Chapter 14 1414b19–1416a3
Chapter 17 1417b21–1418b39
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Posterior Analytics 27 ▸
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Generation of Animals 24 ▸
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Prior Analytics 21 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 18 ▸
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Meteorology 16 ▸
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On the Heavens 12 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 12 ▸
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Categories 11 ▸
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History of Animals 9 ▸
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Poetics 7 ▸
Open Poetics › Chapter 6 1449b21–1450b20
Chapter 14 1453b1–1454a15
Chapter 18 1455b24–1456a32
Chapter 26 1461b26–1462b19
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Sense and Sensibilia 7 ▸
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De Anima 6 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 6 ▸
Open Eudemian Ethics › Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 6 1216b26–1217a17
Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1218b31–1220a37
Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1228a23–1230a33
Book VII 2 ▸
Chapter 10 1242a1–1243b38
Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1246a26–1246b36
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Parts of Animals 6 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 5 ▸
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De Interpretatione 4 ▸
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Mechanica 4 ▸
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De Mundo 3 ▸
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On Dreams 3 ▸
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Movement of Animals 2 ▸
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On Colours 1 ▸
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Progression of Animals 1 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1 ▸
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De Lineis Insecabilibus 1 ▸
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On Memory 1 ▸
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Physiognomonics 1 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
ὅσπερ, ἥπερ, ὅπερ (Ep. ὅπερ as masc., Il. 7.114, 21.107); gen.οὗπερ, Ep. οἷόπερ A.R. 1.1325 ; in Ion. writers and in Poets the obl. cases are sts. borrowed from the Art., τόπερ Id. 3.1098 ; τοῦπερ A. Pers. 779 ; τῇπερ Il. 24.603, Hdt. 1.30 ; τοίπερ Od. 13.130 ; τάπερ A. Ch. 418 (lyr.), Hdt. 3.16 ; τῶνπερ Il. 13.638, A. Ag. 974 ; •. on concord and constr. cf. ὅς B. I.1,2,4, II.1a,3, IV. 4:—A. the very man who, the very thing which; freq. indistinguishable from simple ὅς, cf. ὅσος III 4 : with words intervening between ὅς and περ, ὅς ῥʼ ἔβαλέν περ Il. 4.524, cf. 13.101, etc. 2. used after Adjs. of resemblance, ὡυτὸς ὅσπερ Hdt. 8.42 ; ἐκ τῶν ἴσων . . , ὧνπερ αὐτὸς ἐξέφυ S. OT 1499 ; ὅμοια ἔπραττον ἅπερ ἄν . . X. An. 5.4.34 ; ὅρκια τάπερ τε . . the same as . . , Hdt. 1.74. II. special uses of cases, 1. ὅπερ, wherefore, D.S. 13.18 codd. (s.v.l.); although, A.D. Pron. 103.7. 2. ἅπερ, as, like, A. Ch. 381 (lyr.), Eu. 131, 660, S. Aj. 168 (anap., as v.l.), OT 175 (lyr.), X. HG 5.1.18, etc.; cf. καθάπερ. 3. οὗπερ, v. ὅς A b.1. 4. ᾗπερ, Dor. ᾇπερ, which way, where, whither, Il. 6.41, 12.33, X. An. 6.5.10, etc.; Ion. τῇπερ, ἔθαψαν . . τῇπερ ἔπεσε Hdt. 1.30 ; also, as, Il. 7.286, A. Ch. 440(lyr.), Ar. Ach. 364 ; ᾗπερ δή Il. 9.310 ; ᾗπερ καί X. Mem. 3.8.2. 5. in the Logic of Aristotle, ὅπερ ἐστί, or ὅπερ alone, has two senses : a. non-technical, and unemphatic, what (a thing) is, ἑκάστη οὐσία τοῦθʼ ὅ. ἐστίν, οὐ λέγεται μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον each substance is called what it is without the difference of more or less, Cat. 3b36 ; τὸ διπλάσιον τοῦθʼ ὅ. ἐστίν, ἑτέρου λέγεται the double is called what it is (viz. the double) of something, i.e. is relative, ib.6a39. b. expressing identity, οὔτε ἡ χιὼν ὅ. λευκόν snow is not what white is, i.e. is not identical with white, Top. 120b23 ; ὁ λευκὸς ἄνθρωπος οὐκ ἔστιν ὅ. χρῶμα ib.116a27: hence, to indicate the precise or essential nature of a thing, οὐ γὰρ ἂν φαίη ὅ. κακόν τι εἶναι τὴν ἡδονήν he would not say that pleasure is essentially something bad, EN 1153b6; τὰ μὲν οὐσίαν σημαίνοντα ὅ. ἐκεῖνό ἢ ὅ. ἐκεῖνό τι σημαίνει expressions which show the essence show precisely what the thing in question is or precisely of what kind it is (i.e. indicate either its species or its genus), APo. 83a24 ; ὅ. <τόδε> τί ἐστι τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι the essence of a thing is precisely a ‘this’, i.e. a fully specified particular, Metaph. 1030a3; ἡ μὲν [ἐπιστήμη] ὅ. ἀνθρώπου ἐστίν knowledge (that man is an animal) is apprehension that ‘animal’ is an element in the essential nature of man, APo. 89a35.
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