ὄνειδος

oneidos

reproach, rebuke, censure, blame

Appears 14 times across Aristotle's works.

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Nicomachean Ethics 6
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Book III 2
Chapter 8 1116a15–1117a28

1116a19
1116a29
Book IV 3
Chapter 1 1119b22–1122a17

1122a3
1122a9

Chapter 2 1122a18–1123a33

1123a32
Book IX 1
Chapter 8 1168a28–1169b2

1168b15
Rhetoric 5
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Book I 3
Chapter 9 1366a23–1368a37

1368a36

Chapter 12 1372a4–1373a38

1372b3

Chapter 13 1373b1–1374b23

1374a22
Book II 2
Chapter 6 1383b11–1385a15

1384a17

Chapter 10 1387b22–1388a30

1388a18
De Virtutibus et Vitiis 2
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Chapter 7 1251a19–1251b25

1251a35
1251b12
Eudemian Ethics 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 2 1230a34–1231b4

1231a23

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὄνειδος, εος, τό, A. reproach, rebuke, censure, blame, esp. by word, προθέουσιν ὀνείδεα μυθήσασθαι Il. 1.291 ; λέγʼ ὀ. 2.222 ; ὀ. βάζεις Od. 17.461 ; εἶχε ὄ. καὶ ἀτιμίην was in disgrace, Hdt. 9.71 ; ὄ. ὀνειδίζειν S. Ph. 523 ; ὄ. φέρει it brings reproach, Pl. R. 590c ; ὄ. τινὶ περιθεῖναι Antipho 5.18 ; περιάψειν Lys. 21.24 ; ὡς ἐν ὀνείδει by way of reproach, Pl. Grg. 512c, cf. R. 431b (without ὡς Smp. 189e) ; ὀνείδει ἐνέχεσθαι, συνέχεσθαι, Id. Lg. 808e, 944e : pl., ὀνείδη κλύειν A. Pers. 757 ; κολάζειν ὀνείδεσι with censures, Pl. Lg. 847a ; ὀνείδη ἔχει τὰ μέγιστα Id. R. 344b ; ὀ. ἐπιφέρειν Arist. EN 1123a32. 2. matter of reproach, disgrace, σοὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ . . κατηφείη καὶ ὄ. Il. 16.498 ; σοὶ μὲν δὴ . . κατηφείη καὶ ὄ., εἰ . . 17.556, cf. Hdt. 2.36 ; ἐμῇ κεφαλῇ κατʼ ὀνείδεα χεῦαν Od. 22.463 ; τέκνοις ὄ. λιπεῖν E. Heracl. 301 ; ὀνειδῶν καὶ κακῶν μέστους D. 22.31 ; ὄνειδός [ἐστι] c. inf., E. Andr. 410 : c. gen., τὸ . . πόλεως ὄ. the disgrace of the city, A. Th. 539 ; αὑτῆς ὄ. S. OC 984 ; ὄ. Ἑλλάνων Id. Aj. 1191 (lyr.) ; τὸ Λυσίου ὄ. Pl. Phdr. 277a ; Oedipus calls his daughters τοιαῦτʼ ὀνείδη, S. OT 1494, cf. Ar. Ach. 855, D. 21.132. 3. the statement of Eust. 88.15, 647.36 that ὄ. meant originally any report of one, reputation, character, is not borne out by the passages he cites— ὄ. οὐ καλόν S. Ph. 477 ; Θήβαις κάλλιστον ὄ. E. Ph. 821 (lyr.) ; καλὸν ὄ. Id. Med. 514, IA 305, which are plainly ironical. (Cf. Skt. nindati, nid- ‘insult’, Goth. ga-naitjan ‘slander’, Lett. naids ‘hatred’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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