μῆκος
mekos
length
Appears 200 times across Aristotle's works.
in Aristotle 200× · before him 65 · contemporaries 200
Frequency by work
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Physics 28 ▸
Open Physics ›Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 2 193b22–194b15Book IV 4 ▸
Book V 1 ▸
Chapter 5 229a7–229b22Book VI 10 ▸
Book VII 8 ▸
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Metaphysics 26 ▸
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Parts of Animals 20 ▸
Open Parts of Animals ›Book II 5 ▸
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Meteorology 18 ▸
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History of Animals 15 ▸
Open History of Animals ›Book VI 1 ▸
Chapter 22 575b21–577a17 -
On the Heavens 12 ▸
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Prior Analytics 4 ▸
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Rhetoric 4 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 4 ▸
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De Audibilibus 3 ▸
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De Mundo 3 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 2 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 1 ▸
Open Posterior Analytics ›Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 5 74a4–74b4 -
On Colours 1 ▸
Open On Colours ›Chapter 6 797a33–799b20 -
Nicomachean Ethics 1 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics ›Book X 1 ▸
Chapter 7 1177a12–1178a8 -
On Length and Shortness of Life 1 ▸
Open On Length and Shortness of Life ›Chapter 1 464b19–465a12 -
On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 1 ▸
Open On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias ›Chapter 2 975a18–977a13 -
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1 ▸
Open De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus ›Chapter 130 843a1–32
Dictionary (LSJ)
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Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
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