μάργος

margos

mad

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

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Physiognomonics 3
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Chapter 3 807a31–808b10

808b6
Chapter 6 810a14–814b9

812b7
813b5
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 13 473a15–474a24

473b15

Dictionary (LSJ)

μάργος, η, ον, also ος, ον (A. Eu. 67, Pl. Lg. 792e):—poet. Adj. (used once by Pl.), A. mad, μάργε madman! Od. 16.421; μαῖα φίλη, μάργην σε θεοὶ θέσαν 23.11, cf. Pi. O. 2.96, etc.; θυμὸς μ. Thgn. 1301; λύσσης πνεύματι μάργῳ A. Pr. 884 (anap.); τάσδε τὰς μάργους, of the Furies, Id.Eu.l.c.; μάργοι ἡδοναί Pl.l.c.; of horses, rampant, furious, μάργων ἐπιβήτορες ἵππων Hom. Epigr. 4.4, cf.A. Th. 475; of wine, οἶνος δέ οἱ ἔπλετο μάργος Hes. Fr. 121. 2. of appetite, greedy, gluttonous, μετὰ δʼ ἔπρεπε γαστέρι μάργῃ Od. 18.2; τὸ μ. σῆς γνάθου E. Cyc. 310: metaph., οἴδματι μάργῳ Emp. 100.7; μάργοις φλὸξ ἐδαίνυτο γνάθοις Phryn.Trag. 5.4. 3. lewd, lustful, Thgn. 581, A. Supp. 741, E. El. 1027, etc.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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