κεραμεύς

kerameus

potter

Appears 10 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 4
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Book II 4
Chapter 4 1380b35–1382a19

1381b16
1381b16

Chapter 10 1387b22–1388a30

1388a17
1388a17
Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book VII 2
Chapter 1 1234b18–1235b12

1235a18
1235a18
Politics 2
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Book V 2
Chapter 10 1310a39–1313a14

1312b5
1312b5
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 1 1155a3–1155b16

1155a35
Generation of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 22 730a32–730b32

730b6

Dictionary (LSJ)

κεραμεύς, έως, ὁ, A. potter, ὡς ὅτε τις τροχὸν . . κεραμεὺς πειρήσεται Il. 18.601, cf. Hom. Epigr. 14.1, etc.; οἱ κ., a guild at Thyatira, IGRom. 4.1205: prov., καὶ κεραμεὺς κεραμεῖ κοτέει Hes. Op. 25, cf. Arist. Rh. 1381b16, EN 1155a35; κεραμέως πλοῦτος and κεραμεὺς ἅνθρωπος, prov., of anything frail and uncertain, Diogenian. 5.97, 98. II. Κεραμεῖς, Att. Κεραμῆς, οἱ, name of an Attic deme, Ar. Ra. 1093 (anap.), Pl. Prt. 315d, etc.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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