λίθινος

lithinos

made of stone

Appears 10 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Generation of Animals 2
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Book II 2
Chapter 1 731b18–735a28

734b27

Chapter 4 737b8–741a5

740a15
Metaphysics 2
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Book Ζ 2
Chapter 7 1032a12–1033a23

1033a7
1033a18
Meteorology 2
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Book IV 2
Chapter 12 389b23–390b22

390a1
390a13
De Anima 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 1 412a3–413a10

412b21
Parts of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 1 639a1–642b4

641a2
Physics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 1 192b8–193b21

192b19
Politics 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 2 1252a24–1253a39

1253a22

Dictionary (LSJ)

λίθινος, η, ον, also ος, ον AP 9.719, D.L. 2.33:— A. made of stone, Hippon. 10, Ibyc. 22, Hdt. 3.88, Th. 3.68, Herod. 7.109, PHib. 1.27.26 (iii B.C.), etc.; λ. θάνατος, i.e. caused by seeing the Gorgon‘s head, Pi. P. 10.48; so λ. εὐθὺς γίγνομαι Antiph. 166.4; but, ἕστηκε λίθινος, of a statue, Hdt. 2.141 (cf. ἵστημι A.Ι, B.ΙΙΙ.2); τὰ λ. marble statues, X. Lac. 3.5; Ἑρμῆς λ. Eub. 96; for Hdt. 2.69, v. λίθος II.1, ὕαλος II: metaph., καρδία LXX Ez. 11.19. Adv. -νως like stone, λ. βλέπειν πρός τινα, with allusion to the Gorgon, X. Smp. 4.24.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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