λοιδορέω

loidoreo

abuse, revile

Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 6 1362a15–1363b4

1363a14
Book III 1
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19

1406b18
Eudemian Ethics 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 6 1240a5–1240b37

1240b21
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 8 1127b33–1128b9

1128a31
Oeconomica 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1352b8
Politics 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 2 1252a24–1253a39

1253a5

Dictionary (LSJ)

λοιδορέω, fut. -ήσω D. 40.48: aor. ἐλοιδόρησα E. Med. 873, etc.: pf. λελοιδόρηκα Pl. Phdr. 241e:—Med. and Pass. (v. infr.), fut. -ήσομαι Ar. Eq. 1400, etc.: aor. ἐλοιδορησάμην Is. 6.59; Att. more freq. ἐλοιδορήθην D. 9.54,54.5 (v. infr.): (λοίδορος):—A. abuse, revile, τινα Hdt. 3.145; θεούς Pi. O. 9.37, cf. Ar. Nu. 1140, X. An. 3.4.49, BGU 1007.6 (iii B. C.), etc.: abs., E. l. c., etc.; sts. simply, rebuke, X. Cyr. 1.4.9; οἶνον εἰς ἐπίνοιαν λ. Ar. Eq. 90, cf. Plu. 2.175b (Pass.): with neut. Adj., ἐμαυτὸν πόλλʼ ἐλοιδόρησα E. Hel. 1171; οὐδὲν οὐδένα λ. Pl. Tht. 174c; λ. ἔνια Arist. EN 1128a31: with a predicate added, [τὴν Τύχην] λ. τυφλήν reproach fortune as blind, Plu. 2.98a:—Med., rail at one another, Antipho 2.1.4, Ar. Ra. 857, D. 54.18:—Pass., λοιδοροῦντας ἢ λοιδορουμένους reviling or reviled, Isoc. 2.47, cf. Phld. Lib.p.29 O.; λελοιδορημένος ὑπὸ . . rebuked . . , X. HG 5.4.29; οὐκ ἐν δίκη λοιδορηθείς Pl. Phdr. 275e, cf. Grg. 457d. II. Med. with aor. Pass. in act. sense, c. dat. pers., rail at, τινι Ar. Eq. 1400, Pl. 456, Ec. 248, Pl. R. 395d, etc.; also λ. ἐπί τινι X. Ages. 7.3; τινος Ach.Tat. 1.6; εἴς τινα Luc. Anach. 22; πρός τινα LXX Ex. 17.2: c. acc. cogn., πάντα τὰ αἰσχρὰ λοιδορέονται, ὅτι . . they use all kind of foul reproaches, saying that . . , Hdt. 4.184; λοιδορίαν ἣν ἐλοιδορήθη Κρατίνῳ περὶ τούτων D. 21.132. —Act. never has dat. exc. in later Gr., LXX Ex. 17.2, 2 Ma. 12.14, Epict. Ench. 34, Ant.Lib. 22.5; in And. 1.67 (ἠναντιώθην καὶ ἀντεῖπον —καὶ ἐλοιδόρησα—ἐκείνῳ ὧν ἦν ἄξιος) the dat. (if correct) depends on the other verbs; as does the acc. in οὓς ὕβριζες καὶ ἐλοιδοροῦ Hyp. Dem.Fr.(a).—Only the Act. is found in Trag.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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