πάγιος

pagios

solid

Appears 5 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Metaphysics 3
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Book Γ 1
Chapter 4 1005b35–1009a5

1008a15
Book Κ 2
Chapter 6 1062b12–1063b35

1062b15
1063a33
On the Heavens 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 1 298a24–300a19

298b30
Rhetoric 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 13 1389b13–1390a27

1389b20

Dictionary (LSJ)

πάγιος [ᾰ], α, ον, also ος, ον Plot. 2.1.4: (πήγνυμι):—A. solid, κηρὸς . . σιδήρου παγιώτερος Luc. Alex. 21. Adv., εἶναι -ίως to be solid, opp. ῥεῖν, Arist. Cael. 298b30. II. firm, steadfast, οὐδὲν π. ἐστι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων D. C.65.1; π. ἔχειν τὸν λόγον hold it fast, Pl. Epin. 984d, cf. Plot. l.c.; πάγιον ἕστηκε Lib. Or. 64.47; of persons, συστῆναι παγιώτατοι steady in the ranks, D. C.76.12. Adv. -ίως, λέγειν to say positively, without reservations, Pl. R. 434d; π. νοῆσαι ib.479c, Tht. 157a; π. διισχυρίζεσθαι Id. Ti. 49d, cf. Arist. Rh. 1389b19; firmly, immovably, ἑστάναι Dam. Pr. 266.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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