μιμητικός

mimetikos

able to imitate

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Poetics 5
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Chapter 4 1448b4–1449a31

1448b7
Chapter 6 1449b21–1450b20

1449b21
Chapter 8 1451a16–35

1451a30
Chapter 13 1452b28–1453a39

1452b33
Chapter 23 1459a17–1459b6

1459a17
History of Animals 1
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 12 596b19–597b30

597b26
Rhetoric 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 1 1404a6–39

1404a22

Dictionary (LSJ)

μιμητικός, ή, όν, A. able to imitate, Porph. Abst. 3.4; esp. of the arts (including music and poetry), imitative, Pl. Lg. 668a, Arist. Po. 1451a30, etc.; μ. ποιητής Pl. R. 605asq.; ἡ φωνὴ πάντων -ώτατον τῶν μορίων Arist. Rh. 1404a22: ἡ -κή (with or without τέχνη) Pl. Sph. 265a, R. 598b; ἡ ἐν ἑξαμέτροις μ. Arist. Po. 1449b21. Adv.-κῶς Plu. 2.18b, Gal. 8.155,Ath. 11.505b; μ. ζῆν Procl.in R.1.60 K.: Comp. -ώτερον Ptol. Harm. 3.3.

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