νῦν
nyn
now
Appears 832 times across Aristotle's works.
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Physics 165 ▸
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Book II 5 ▸
Book III 3 ▸
Book IV 74 ▸
Book V 3 ▸
Book VI 53 ▸
Book VII 1 ▸
Book VIII 25 ▸
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Politics 120 ▸
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Chapter 2 1252a24–1253a39
Chapter 11 1258b9–1259a36
Chapter 13 1259b18–1260b24
Book II 34 ▸
Chapter 2 1261a10–1261b15
Chapter 3 1261b16–1262a24
Chapter 5 1262b37–1264b25
Chapter 6 1264b26–1266a30
Chapter 7 1266a31–1267b21
Chapter 8 1267b22–1269a28
Chapter 9 1269a29–1271b19
Chapter 10 1271b20–1272b23
Chapter 11 1272b24–1273b26
Chapter 12 1273b27–1274b28
Book III 9 ▸
Chapter 1 1274b32–1275b21
Chapter 4 1276b16–1277b32
Chapter 15 1285b33–1286b40
Chapter 16 1287a1–1287b35
Book IV 12 ▸
Chapter 1 1288b10–1289a25
Chapter 2 1289a26–1289b26
Chapter 4 1290a30–1292a38
Chapter 5 1292a39–1292b21
Chapter 8 1293b22–1294a29
Chapter 9 1294a30–1294b41
Chapter 11 1295a25–1296b12
Chapter 13 1297a14–1297b34
Chapter 14 1297b35–1299a2
Chapter 15 1299a3–1300b12
Book V 11 ▸
Chapter 5 1304b19–1305a36
Chapter 9 1309a33–1310a38
Chapter 10 1310a39–1313a14
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10
Book VI 8 ▸
Chapter 1 1316b31–1317a39
Chapter 5 1319b30–1320b17
Book VII 25 ▸
Chapter 4 1325b33–1326b25
Chapter 6 1327a11–1327b19
Chapter 7 1327b20–1328a20
Chapter 10 1329a40–1330a33
Chapter 11 1330a34–1331a18
Chapter 12 1331a19–1331b23
Chapter 14 1332b12–1334a10
Chapter 16 1334b29–1336a2
Book VIII 15 ▸
Chapter 2 1337a33–1337b23
Chapter 5 1339a11–1340b19
Chapter 6 1340b20–1341b14
Chapter 7 1341b15–1342b34
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Metaphysics 87 ▸
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Chapter 5 1001b26–1002b11
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Chapter 7 1011b23–1012a28
Book Δ 9 ▸
Chapter 2 1013a24–1014a25
Chapter 11 1018b9–1019a14
Chapter 12 1019a15–1020a6
Chapter 24 1023a26–1023b11
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Chapter 3 1027a29–1027b16
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Chapter 3 1028b33–1029a34
Chapter 6 1031a15–1032a11
Chapter 10 1034b20–1036a25
Chapter 12 1037b8–1038a35
Chapter 13 1038b1–1039a23
Chapter 15 1039b20–1040b4
Book Η 7 ▸
Chapter 3 1043a29–1044a14
Book Θ 5 ▸
Chapter 1 1045b27–1046a35
Chapter 6 1048a25–1048b36
Chapter 10 1051a34–1052a11
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Chapter 10 1058b26–1059a14
Book Κ 9 ▸
Chapter 5 1061b34–1062b11
Chapter 6 1062b12–1063b35
Book Λ 5 ▸
Chapter 8 1073a14–1074b14
Book Μ 3 ▸
Chapter 5 1079b12–1080a11
Chapter 10 1086b14–1087a25
Book Ν 6 ▸
Chapter 1 1087a29–1088b13
Chapter 2 1088b14–1090a15
Chapter 3 1090a16–1091a22
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On the Heavens 54 ▸
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Meteorology 39 ▸
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Topics 38 ▸
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Book II 4 ▸
Book IV 1 ▸
Book V 9 ▸
Book VI 14 ▸
Book VII 2 ▸
Book VIII 1 ▸
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De Anima 35 ▸
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Rhetoric 32 ▸
Open Rhetoric › Book I 14 ▸
Chapter 2 1355b25–1358a35
Chapter 10 1368b1–1369b32
Chapter 12 1372a4–1373a38
Chapter 13 1373b1–1374b23
Chapter 15 1375a22–1378a15
Book II 5 ▸
Chapter 5 1382a20–1383b10
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33
Chapter 26 1403a16–1404a5
Book III 13 ▸
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19
Chapter 8 1408b21–1409a21
Chapter 13 1414a31–1414b18
Chapter 14 1414b19–1416a3
Chapter 15 1416a4–1416b15
Chapter 16 1416b16–1417b20
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Generation of Animals 29 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 26 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics › Book I 6 ▸
Chapter 5 1095b14–1096a10
Chapter 6 1096a11–1097a14
Chapter 10 1100a10–1101a21
Book II 2 ▸
Chapter 7 1107a28–1108b10
Book III 5 ▸
Chapter 10 1117b23–1118b7
Chapter 12 1119a21–1119b18
Book IV 1 ▸
Book V 1 ▸
Chapter 5 1132b21–1134a16
Book VI 3 ▸
Chapter 2 1138b35–1139b13
Chapter 12 1143b18–1144a36
Chapter 13 1144b1–1145a11
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Book IX 2 ▸
Chapter 1 1163b32–1164b21
Book X 4 ▸
Chapter 4 1174a13–1175a20
Chapter 9 1179a33–1181b23
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Sophistical Refutations 20 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 19 ▸
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Parts of Animals 19 ▸
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Prior Analytics 17 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 17 ▸
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Poetics 15 ▸
Open Poetics › Chapter 6 1449b21–1450b20
Chapter 13 1452b28–1453a39
Chapter 18 1455b24–1456a32
Chapter 21 1457a31–1458a17
Chapter 22 1458a18–1459a16
Chapter 23 1459a17–1459b6
Chapter 25 1460b6–1461b25
Chapter 26 1461b26–1462b19
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History of Animals 13 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 12 ▸
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Chapter 6 1216b26–1217a17
Book II 2 ▸
Chapter 1 1218b31–1220a37
Chapter 6 1222b15–1223a20
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Chapter 1 1228a23–1230a33
Book VII 2 ▸
Chapter 10 1242a1–1243b38
Book VIII 2 ▸
Chapter 1 1246a26–1246b36
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Progression of Animals 9 ▸
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On Memory 8 ▸
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Oeconomica 8 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 7 ▸
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De Interpretatione 6 ▸
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Sense and Sensibilia 6 ▸
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Categories 5 ▸
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De Lineis Insecabilibus 5 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 4 ▸
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On Sleep 4 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 3 ▸
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De Mundo 2 ▸
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On Length and Shortness of Life 2 ▸
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Movement of Animals 2 ▸
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Mechanica 2 ▸
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Physiognomonics 2 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
νῦν (for νυν, νυ, v. infr. II), Adv. A. now, both of the present moment, and of the present time generally, οἳ ν. βροτοί εἰσιν mortals of our day, Il. 1.272 ; so in Ion. and Att., οἱ ν. [ἄνθρωποι] men of the present day, Hdt. 1.68 ; οἵ γε ν. Pi. O. 1.105, B. 5.4, cf. Arist. Metaph. 1069a26 ; ὁ ν. τρόπος, τὸ ν. βαρβαρικόν, Th. 1.6 ; Βοιωτοὶ οἱ ν. ib.12 ; ὁ ν. παρὼν χρόνος S. Tr. 174, al., Pl. Prm. 141e ; ἡμέρα ἡ ν. S. OT 351 ; νὺξ ἡ ν. Id. Ant. 16 ; ἡ ν. ὁδός Id. El. 1295 ; τὸ ν. the present, Arist. Ph. 218a6, al. ; ἀπὸ τοῦ ν. Pl. Prm. 152c, LXXGe. 46.30, etc. ; ἀπὸ ν. AP 5.40 (Rufin.) ; ἕως τοῦ ν. LXXGe. 46.34 ; μέχρι ν. (v.l. μ. τοῦ ν.) D.S. 17.110 ; τὰ ν. simply, = ν., Hdt. 7.104, E. Heracl. 641, etc. ; τό περ ν. Pi. N. 7.101 ; τὰ δὲ ν. S. OC 133 (lyr.) ; τὸ ν. εἶναι Pl. R. 506e, X. Cyr. 5.3.42, Arist. Ath. 31.2 ; τὸ ν. ἔχον Act.Ap. 24.25. 2. of the immediate past, just now, but now, ν. Μενέλαος ἐνίκησεν Il. 3.439, cf. 13.772, Od. 1.43, S. OC 84, X. Cyr. 4.5.48 ; ν. γοῦν ἐπεχείρησας Pl. R. 341c ; ἡλίκα ν. ἐτραγῴδει D. 18.13. 3. of the future, presently, ν. αὖτʼ ἐγχείῃ πειρήσομαι Il. 5.279, cf. 20.307, Od. 1.200 ; ν. φεύξομαι, τόθʼ ἁγνὸς ὤν E. El. 975 ; cf. νῦν δή, νυνί. 4. sts. opp. to what might have been under other circumstances, as it is (or was), as the case stands (or stood), as a matter of fact, ν. δʼ ὁ μὲν ὣς ἀπόλωλε Od. 1.166 ; εἰ μὲν ὑπώπτευον, οὐκ ἂν . . ἐποιούμην· ν. δὲ κτλ. Th. 4.126, cf. 1.122, 3.113, Pl. Cra. 384b, D. 18.195, etc. ; καὶ ν. even so, X. An. 7.4.24,7.7.17. 5. coupled with other Particles, τὰ ν. γε S. Ph. 245, etc. ; ν. γε μάν Pi. P. 1.50 ; ν. δή, v. h. v. : with other expressions of Time, ν. . . σήμερον, ν. ἡμέρη ἥδε, Il. 7.29, 13.828 ; ν. ἤδη henceforth, S. Ant. 801 (anap.), etc. ; ν. . . ἄρτι but now, Pl. Cra. 396c. II. enclit. (but see below) νυν, νυ. [νυ only Ep., Boeot., and Cypr. (also Arc. in ὅνυ, q. v.) ; νῠν twice in Hom., Il. 10.105, 23.485 : ῡ/ῠ in Trag. (ῡ A. Th. 242,246, S. Ant. 705, E. Or. 1678, etc. ; ῠ S. Tr. 92, E. Andr. 91, etc.), ῡ in Com. (Ar. V. 1381, Pl. 975, al.), exc. Cratin. 144, Ar. Th. 105 (lyr., citing Agatho), and perh. Nu. 141 ; both quantities in τοίνυν, q.v.] 1. rarely of Time, now, perh. so used in Il. 10.105, cf. Parm. 19.1, Pi. P. 11.44, al., Epich. 170.6. 2. in Ep. mostly as a particle of emphasis, ἧκε δʼ ἐπʼ Ἀργείοισι κακὸν βέλος· οἱ δέ νυ λαοὶ θνῇσκον Il. 1.382, etc. : freq. coupled with other Particles or Conjs., ἦ ῥά ν. 4.93 ; καί νύ κεν 3.373 ; οὔ ν., μή νύ τοι, 10.165, 1.28 ; ἐπεί νύ τοι ib.416 ; ὥς νύ περ 2.258. 3. in commands or entreaties, μή ν. μοι νεμεσήσετʼ 15.115 : freq. with other Advbs., δεῦρό ν. come now ! 23.485 ; ἐνταῦθά ν. ὕβριζε A. Pr. 82, cf. Ar. Th. 1001, V. 149, Pl. 724 ; εἶά ν. Id. Pax 467, V. 430, Pl. 316 : freq. with imper., φέρε ν. ib.789 ; ἄγε ν. Id. Pax 1056, V. 381 ; σπεῦδέ ν. Id. Pl. 414 ; σίγαν. S. Aj. 87, Cratin.l.c. ; περίδου ν. Ar. Nu. 644, cf. X. Cyr. 5.3.21, etc. ; ὕφαινέ ν. B. 18.8 ; so in Boeot., ν. ἔνθω IG 7.3172.88 (Orchom.) ; also in Cypr. with opt. in commands, δυϝάνοι ν., δώκοι ν., Inscr.Cypr. 135.6,16 H. (Idalion). 4. in questions, τίς ν. ; τί ν. ; who, what, why now? Il. 5.373, 1.414,4.31 ; ἦ νυ . . ; Od. 6.125. [In signf. I always perispom. In signf. II perispom. exc. when short, Hdn.Gr.2.39, al. ; enclit. when short, sts. in codd., as Il. 23.485 (Pap. in AJP 21.304, etc. ; oxyt. when = δή, Tyrannio ap. Hdn.Gr.2.27 ; καθʼ ὁμαλισμόν or κατʼ ἔγκλισιν when=δή, Sch.Ar. Pl. 414, Sch.A.R. 1.664). In codd. usu. perispom. in both senses, A. Pr. 82, Th. 242, 246, S. Ant. 705,El. 324, Ar. Pl. 414, V. 758,922, etc. ; even νῠν is written νῦν in codd. vett. Pi. passim, also in S. Aj. 87, Tr. 92, etc. ; hence νυν may freq. be restored where the sense requires it. The accent of τοίνυ⏓ν perh. shows that both νῠν and νῡν could be enclitic.—Position : in signf. I νῦν can occupy any position ; in signf. II it prefers (like other enclitics, but also like ἄν, δέ, γάρ, etc.) the second place in the sentence, e.g. πρός νύν σε πατρός S. Ph. 468, cf. OC 1333 ; ἀπό νύν με λείπετʼ ἤδη Id. Ph. 1177 (lyr.) ; μετά νυν δός E. Supp. 56 (lyr.) ; νυ (always enclitic) precedes other enclitics and allows only δέ to precede.] (Cf. Skt. nú, nú¯, nūnám, OE. nū ‘now’, etc.)
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