κῆτος

ketos

any sea-monster

Appears 8 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 5
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Book I 1
Chapter 6 490b7–491a26

490b9
Book II 1
Chapter 15 505b25–506b23

505b30
Book III 2
Chapter 12 518b35–519a29

519a23

Chapter 20 521b4–522b5

521b23
Book VI 1
Chapter 12 566b2–567a16

566b2
Parts of Animals 2
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Book III 1
Chapter 6 668b33–669b12

669a8
Book IV 1
Chapter 13 695a28–697b13

697a17
Generation of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 10 718b32–35

718b32

Dictionary (LSJ)

κῆτος, εος, τό, A. any sea-monster or huge fish, δελφῖνάς τε κύνας τε καὶ εἴ ποθι μεῖζον ἑλῃσι κῆτος Od. 12.97, cf. 5.421, Il. 20.147, Mosch. 2.116; of seals, Od. 4.446,452; of the monster to which Andromeda was exposed, E. Fr. 121, cf. Ar. Nu. 556, Th. 1033; of the tunny, Archestr. Fr. 34.3. 2. in Natural History, of the spouting cetacea, Arist. HA 566b2, PA 669a8, 697a16. II. name of a constellation, Arat. 354, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.20.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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