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ὀστέον

osteon

bone

Appears 222 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ὀστέον, τό, Att. contr. ὀστοῦν, poet. ὀστεῦν AP 7.480 (Leon.); Aeol. perh. ὄστιον Alc. Oxy. 2081 (d)Fr.5: pl. ὀστέα, Att. contr. ὀστᾶ, late Ep. ὀστά [ᾰ] Opp. C. 1.268, Epigr. in D.L. 1.63, Epigr.Gr. 517.7 (Edessa); Dor. ὀστία Theoc. 2.61; but Trag. and Com. use gen. pl. ὀστέων, A. Fr. 367 (codd. Poll.), S. Tr. 769, Ar. Ach. 1226, and it is so written in E. Tr. 1177 where metre requires ὀστῶν: and the uncontr. forms generally occur in later Prose, as in Arist. (v. infr.); nom. ὀστέον PLit.Lond. 167.17(ii/iii A. D.); dat. pl. ὀστέοις Diog.Oen. 39; Ep. gen. pl. ὀστεόφιν (v. infr.):—A. bone, freq. in Hom. (Il. 4.460, al.) and Hp. (VC 1, al.); Hes. only in pl., Th. 540, al.; λεύκʼ ὀστέα the bleached bones of the dead, Od. 1.161, etc.; σάρκας τε καὶ ὀστέα 9.293; πολὺς δʼ ἀμφʼ ὀστεόφιν θίς a huge heap of bones around, 12.45; ῥινὸν ἀπʼ ὀστεόφιν ἐρύσαι 14.134; γυμνοῦσι τὰ ὀστέα τῶν κρεῶν Hdt. 4.61; ὀστέων στέγαστρον, of the skin, A. Fr. 367; ἀρχὴ τῶν ὀστῶν ἡ καλουμένη ῥάχις Arist. PA 54b11; esp. of the cranium, Hp. VC 2, al., cf. Il. 12.185. II. metaph., γῆς ὀστέοισιν ἐγχριμφθεὶς πόδα, i.e. rocks, Choeril.Trag. 2 (ὀστοῖσιν Nauck). III. stone of fruit, ὀστῶν περσεΐνων PCair.Zen. 176.168 (iii B. C.), cf. Dsc. Eup. 1.66, Gp. 10.13.3, al., Sch.Nic. Al. 99. [Accent ὀστέον Hdn.Gr.2.943, but ὄστεον Anon. ap. Sch.Il. 24.793.] (Cf. Skt. ´sthi, gen. asthn´s ‘bone’, etc.)

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