πάρδαλις

pardalis

leopard, Felis pardus

Appears 14 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 9
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Book I 1
Chapter 1 486a5–488b28

488a28
Book II 3
Chapter 1 497b6–501b4

499b8
500a28
501a17
Book VIII 1
Chapter 28 605b22–607a8

606b16
Book IX 4
Chapter 1 608a11–610a35

608a34

Chapter 6 611b32–612b17

612a7
612a12
612a13
Parts of Animals 2
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Book III 1
Chapter 4 665a27–667b9

667a20
Book IV 1
Chapter 10 685b29–690b10

688a6
Generation of Animals 1
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Book V 1
Chapter 6 785b16–786b6

785b22
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 6 831a4–10

831a5
Physiognomonics 1
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Chapter 5 809a26–810a13

809b36

Dictionary (LSJ)

πάρδαλις or πόρδᾰλις (v. infr.), ἡ, gen. εως, Ep. and Ion. ιος Il. 17.20, etc. ; dat. ει Ar. Nu. 347 :—A. leopard, Felis pardus, Il. 13.103, 17.20, 21.573, Od. 4.457, h.Ven. 71, Semon.(?) in PLit.Lond. 53r.3, Arist. HA 500a28, Phgn. 809b36, Opp. C. 3.63, etc.—Acc. to Apion (ap. Apollon. Lex. s.v. πόρδαλις) πόρδαλις was the male, πάρδαλις the female, cf. Hsch. ; but πόρδαλις was used of the animal, παρδαλέη of its skin, acc. to EM 652.38, Phot. ; Aristarch. wrote πάρδ- in Hom. ; Ar. has πάρδ- Nu. l. c., but πόρδ- Lys. 1015 ; πάρδ- is found in Pl. La. 196e, Thphr. CP 6.5.2, 6.17.9, and always in Arist. ; πόρδ- in S. Ichn. 296. II. a ravenous sea-fish, Ael. NA 9.49, Opp. H. 1.368. III. = πάρδαλος II, Hsch. IV. name of a plaster, Aët. 12.1.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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