ὅθεν
hothen
whence
Appears 241 times across Aristotle's works.
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Nicomachean Ethics 37 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics › Book I 5 ▸
Chapter 5 1095b14–1096a10
Chapter 13 1102a5–1103a10
Book II 3 ▸
Chapter 1 1103a14–1103b25
Chapter 6 1106a14–1107a27
Chapter 7 1107a28–1108b10
Book III 4 ▸
Chapter 8 1116a15–1117a28
Chapter 10 1117b23–1118b7
Book IV 13 ▸
Chapter 1 1119b22–1122a17
Chapter 5 1125b26–1126b10
Book V 1 ▸
Chapter 9 1136a10–1137a30
Book VI 1 ▸
Chapter 2 1138b35–1139b13
Book VIII 6 ▸
Chapter 7 1158b11–1159a11
Chapter 11 1161a10–1161b10
Chapter 12 1161b11–1162a33
Book IX 3 ▸
Chapter 11 1171a21–1171b28
Chapter 12 1171b29–1172a15
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Chapter 5 1175a21–1176a29
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Metaphysics 30 ▸
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Chapter 1 1012b34–1013a23
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Chapter 3 1014a26–1014b15
Chapter 4 1014b16–1015a19
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Chapter 7 1032a12–1033a23
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Rhetoric 29 ▸
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Chapter 8 1365b21–1366a22
Chapter 11 1369b33–1372a3
Chapter 15 1375a22–1378a15
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Chapter 6 1383b11–1385a15
Chapter 7 1385a16–1385b10
Chapter 10 1387b22–1388a30
Chapter 13 1389b13–1390a27
Chapter 16 1390b32–1391a19
Chapter 19 1392a8–1393a22
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33
Chapter 26 1403a16–1404a5
Book III 3 ▸
Chapter 11 1411b22–1413b2
Chapter 19 1419b10–1420a8
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Politics 16 ▸
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Chapter 10 1258a19–1258b8
Book II 2 ▸
Chapter 7 1266a31–1267b21
Chapter 8 1267b22–1269a28
Book III 2 ▸
Chapter 13 1283a23–1284b34
Book IV 1 ▸
Chapter 8 1293b22–1294a29
Book V 8 ▸
Chapter 1 1301a19–1302a15
Chapter 4 1303b17–1304b18
Chapter 6 1305a37–1306b21
Chapter 7 1306b22–1307b25
Chapter 10 1310a39–1313a14
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10
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Chapter 7 1327b20–1328a20
Chapter 16 1334b29–1336a2
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Meteorology 15 ▸
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On the Heavens 13 ▸
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Physics 13 ▸
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Book III 1 ▸
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Generation of Animals 12 ▸
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History of Animals 12 ▸
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De Anima 9 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 9 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 7 ▸
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Chapter 3 1220b21–1221b26
Chapter 6 1222b15–1223a20
Chapter 8 1223b37–1225a33
Book VII 4 ▸
Chapter 1 1234b18–1235b12
Chapter 2 1235b13–1238b14
Chapter 12 1244b1–1246a25
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Progression of Animals 6 ▸
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Sense and Sensibilia 5 ▸
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Parts of Animals 4 ▸
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Poetics 4 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 3 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 2 ▸
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Movement of Animals 2 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 2 ▸
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Mechanica 2 ▸
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On Sleep 2 ▸
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Topics 2 ▸
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De Virtutibus et Vitiis 2 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1 ▸
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Oeconomica 1 ▸
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Ventorum Situs 1 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
ὅθεν, relat. Adv. A. whence, ὑπὸ πλατανίστῳ, ὅ. ῥέεν ἀγλαὸν ὕδωρ Il. 2.307 ; ἐξ Ἐνετῶν, ὅ. ἡμιόνων γένος ib.852 ; γένος δέ μοι ἔνθεν, ὅ. σοί 4.58, etc. ; πόλεως ὅθεν εἶ IG 12(5).310.2 (Paros); also, from whom or which, ὅθεν περ Ὁμηρίδαι ἄρχονται, Διὸς ἐκ προοιμίου Pi. N. 2.1 ; τὴν τεκοῦσαν . . , ὅθεν περ αὐτὸς ἐσπάρη S. OT 1498 ; Φοῖνιξ, ὅθεν περ τοὔνομʼ ἡ χώρα φέρει E. Fr. 819.8 : folld. by Particles, ὅθεν περ (v. supr.) ; ὅθεν δή A. Supp. 15 (anap.); ὅθεν τε Od. 4.358. b. in Att. Prose, ὅθεν δή from whatever source, in what manner soever, Pl. Phdr. 267d ; so ὁθενδήποτε Dosith.p.410 K.; also ἄλλοθεν ὁθενοῦν from any other place whatsoever, Pl. Lg. 738c. 2. for where or whither, by attraction, when the antecedent clause contains a notion of place whence, ἐκ δὲ γῆς, ὅ. προὔκειτʼ from the ground where it lay, S. Tr. 701 ; ὅ. . . ἀπέλιπες, ἀποκρίνου answer [from the point] where you left off, Pl. Grg. 497c ; διεκομίζοντο . . ὅ. ὑπεξέθεντο παῖδας καὶ γυναῖκας Th. 1.89 ; ὅθεν, = ἐκεῖσε ὅθεν, X. An. 1.3.17, 7.6.12, etc. ; ὅθεν περ, = ἐκεῖθεν ὅθεν περ, IG 12.78.9,88.23. II. whence, for which reason, σφυρῶν . . κέντρα διαπείρας μέσον, ὅ. νιν Ἑλλὰς ὠνόμαζεν Οἰδίπουν E. Ph. 27, cf. Antipho Soph. 54, Arist. Ath. 3.2, IG 22.1011.42, al. ; ὅ. . . ἱδρύσαθʼ ἱερόν Alex. 267.4 ; for what reason, Pl. Prt. 319b; ὅ. ἠνάγκασμαι κατηγορεῖν αὐτῶν, περὶ τούτων πρῶτον εἰπεῖν βούλομαι Lys. 22.1.
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