ὀρθότης

orthotes

upright posture, erectness

Appears 19 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Nicomachean Ethics 8
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Book VI 8
Chapter 9 1142a31–1142b33

1142b8
1142b10
1142b11
1142b16
1142b17
1142b21
1142b27
1142b32
Parts of Animals 5
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Book II 5
Chapter 7 652a24–653b18

653a18

Chapter 8 653b19–654a31

654a24

Chapter 9 654a32–655b27

654b5
654b13

Chapter 14 658a11–658b13

658a22
Poetics 2
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Chapter 25 1460b6–1461b25

1460b14
1461b24
Topics 2
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Book II 2
Chapter 4 111a8–111b31

111a16
111a18
Eudemian Ethics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 11 1227b12–1228a19

1227b34
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 1 467b10–468a12

468a5

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὀρθότης, ητος, ἡ, A. upright posture, erectness, X. Mem. 1.4.11 ; of man, Arist. PA 658a22, al. 2. straightness, opp. κάμψις, ib.654b5. 3. fixity, ὀμμάτων Hp. Coac. 223. II. metaph., rightness, correctness, τῶν ἐπῶν Ar. Ra. 1181 ; λογισμῶν Pl. Ti. 47c ; μουσικῆς Id. Lg. 655d ; λόγων Gorg. Fr. 6 D.; ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ὀ. Pl. Cra. 422b sq., etc. III. use of the nominative case in narrative, Hermog. Id. 1.3, al.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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