ὑποκριτής

hypokrites

one who answers

Appears 15 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Poetics 7
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Chapter 4 1448b4–1449a31

1449a16
Chapter 5 1449a32–1449b20

1449b5
Chapter 6 1449b21–1450b20

1450b19
Chapter 9 1451a36–1452a11

1451b37
Chapter 18 1455b24–1456a32

1456a26
Chapter 24 1459b7–1460b5

1459b26
Chapter 26 1461b26–1462b19

1461b34
Rhetoric 4
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Book II 1
Chapter 26 1403a16–1404a5

1403b33
Book III 3
Chapter 2 1404b1–1405b34

1404b22

Chapter 12 1413b3–1414a30

1413b11
1413b25
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book III 1
Chapter 2 1111b4–1112a17

1111b24
Book VII 1
Chapter 4 1147b20–1148b14

1148b8
Politics 2
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Book VII 2
Chapter 17 1336a3–1337a7

1336b28
1336b30

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὑποκριτής, οῦ, ὁ, A. one who answers: I. interpreter or expounder, τῆς διʼ αἰνιγμῶν φήμης Pl. Ti. 72b; ὀνείρων Luc. Somn. 17, etc. II. in Att., one who plays a part on the stage, actor, Ar. V. 1279, Pl. R. 373b, Chrm. 162d, Smp. 194b, X. Mem. 2.2.9, etc. 2. of an orator, ποικίλος ὑ. καὶ περιττός (of Dem.) Phld. Rh. 1.197 S.; one who delivers, recites, declaimer, ἐπῶν Tim. Lex. s.v. ῥαψῳδοί; rhapsodist, D.S. 14.109, 15.7; this sense or sense II.1 is possible in PCair.Zen. 4.44 (iii B. C.). 3. metaph., pretender, dissembler, hypocrite, LXX Jb. 34.30, 36.13, Ev.Matt. 23.13, al.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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