Aristotle Greek Lexicon ὀργανικός

ὀργανικός

organikos

serving as organs

Appears 27 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ὀργανικός, ή, όν, A. serving as organs or instruments, instrumental, esp. of the several parts of the body, Arist. PA 646b26: distd. from τὰ κινητικά, Id. GA 742b10 ; τὰ ὀ. μέρη Id. EN 1110a16, cf. PA 661b29, GA 739b14, al. ; αἱ ὀ. [ἀρεταί], of a slave, Id. Pol. 1259b23 ; ὀ. καὶ μηχανικαὶ κατασκευαί Plu. 2.718f; esp. of war-engines, ἡ ὀ. βία D.S. 17.43 ; ὀ. κατασκευαί Onos. 42.3 : metaph., ὁ ὀ. εἰς πλήθη λόγος speech which is brought to bear on the mob, Plu. Cat.Mi. 4 ; of musicians, practical, opp. λογικοί (theoretical), Id. 2.657e ; ἐποιεῖτο ἀκροάσεις λογικάς τε καὶ ὀ. Supp.Epigr. 2.184.6 (Tanagra, ii B.C.) ; so of surgeons, τῶν ὀ. οἱ διασημότεροι PMed.Lond. 155.2.13 ; ἡ ὀ. (sc. τέχνη) Plu. Marc. 14 ; but ὀργανικός, = λογικός, logical, Elias in Porph. 115.17. Adv. -κῶς by way of instruments, Arist. EN 1099b28; -κώτερον making more use of instruments, Simp. in Cael. 504.33 ; τὸ κινοῦν ὀ. Arist. de An. 433b21.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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