λειτουργέω

leitourgeo

serve public offices at oneʼs own cost

Appears 11 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Politics 7
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Book III 2
Chapter 5 1277b33–1278b5

1278a12

Chapter 6 1278b6–1279a21

1279a11
Book IV 3
Chapter 4 1290a30–1292a38

1291a34
1291a35
1291a37
Book V 1
Chapter 8 1307b26–1309a32

1309a18
Book VII 1
Chapter 16 1334b29–1336a2

1335b28
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 3 468b16–469a26

469a3
Oeconomica 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1347a14
Parts of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 10 685b29–690b10

689b28
Rhetoric 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33

1399a37

Dictionary (LSJ)

λειτουργέω, earlier Att. λητουργέω IG 22.1147.6 (iv B.C.), etc. (λειτ- 22.665.11 (282 B.C.)): pf. λελειτούργηκα Lys. 18.7, Is. 6.60, Isoc. 15.145: I. at Athens, serve public offices at oneʼs own cost, And. 1.132, al., D. 27.64: c. acc. cogn., λ. τὰ προσταττόμενα Is. 6.61; δύο λειτουργίας D. 50.9, cf. Lys. 3.47; λ. ὑπέρ τινος serve these offices for another, Is. 3.80, 6.64; τὰ λελειτουργημένα public services performed, D. 21.169. II. generally, perform public duties, serve the state, τῇ πόλει X. Mem. 2.7.6; ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας οὐσίας ὑμῖν λ. Isoc. 8.13; τὸ ταῖς οὐσίαις λειτουργοῦν, ὃ καλοῦμεν εὐπόρους Arist. Pol. 1291a34; τοῖς σώμασιν καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν λ. Id. Ath. 29.5; λ. τοῖς σώμασιν D. 21.165; τὸ περὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς λ. Arist. Pol. 1291a35; λ. τῇ πόλει ταύτην τὴν λειτουργίαν ib.37, cf. Plb. 6.33.6; λ. πρὸς τεκνοποιΐαν Arist. Pol. 1335b28; ἄρχειν καὶ λ. POxy. 1119.16 (iii A.D.). III. generally, serve a master, c. dat., οἱ ἑνὶ λειτουργοῦντες τὰ τοιαῦτα δοῦλοι [εἰσι] Arist. Pol. 1278a12, cf. PSI 4.361.15 (iii B.C.), Nic.Dam. 4 J.; λ. τρισὶν ἀνδράσιν, of a prostitute, AP 5.48 (Gallus). 2. perform religious service, minister, ἐπὶ τῶν ἱερῶν D.H. 2.22; τῷ Κυρίῳ Act.Ap. 13.2, etc. (Written λιτ- in Rev.Et.Anc. 32.5 (Athens, i B.C.), etc., cf. λειτούργιον, λειτουργός.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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