ὀξύθυμος

oxythymos

quick to anger, choleric

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 3
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Book I 1
Chapter 10 1368b1–1369b32

1368b20
Book II 2
Chapter 5 1382a20–1383b10

1382b19

Chapter 12 1388b31–1389b12

1389a9
Eudemian Ethics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 3 1220b21–1221b26

1221b12

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὀξύθυμος, ον, A. quick to anger, choleric, Epich. 281. E. Med. 319, Ar. V. 406,455, 1105, Arist. Rh. 1368b20, LXXPr. 14.17, al. ; sharp to punish, of the Areopagus, A. Eu. 705 ; τὸ ὀξύθυμον, by crasis τοὐξύθυμον, = ὀξυθυμία, E. Ba. 671, Men. Georg.Fr. 3.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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