πάθη
pathe
passive state
Appears 224 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Metaphysics 44 ▸
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Book Ζ 4 ▸
Book Θ 1 ▸
Chapter 7 1048b37–1049b3Book Λ 1 ▸
Chapter 5 1070b36–1071b2Book Μ 4 ▸
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Rhetoric 22 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 20 ▸
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Chapter 11 1101a22–1101b9Book II 12 ▸
Book V 1 ▸
Chapter 8 1135a15–1136a9Book VII 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1145a15–1145b20Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1155a3–1155b16Book IX 1 ▸
Chapter 2 1164b22–1165a35Book X 1 ▸
Chapter 3 1173a13–1174a12 -
On Generation and Corruption 12 ▸
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Meteorology 12 ▸
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Physics 12 ▸
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Chapter 1 192b8–193b21Book IV 1 ▸
Chapter 2 209a31–210a13Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 7 260a20–261b26 -
Eudemian Ethics 11 ▸
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Parts of Animals 9 ▸
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Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 1 646a8–647b9Book III 3 ▸
Book IV 1 ▸
Chapter 2 676b16–677b10 -
On Sleep 4 ▸
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De Audibilibus 3 ▸
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Movement of Animals 3 ▸
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Physiognomonics 3 ▸
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History of Animals 2 ▸
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On Colours 1 ▸
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On Dreams 1 ▸
Open On Dreams ›Chapter 3 460b28–462b11 -
On Length and Shortness of Life 1 ▸
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On Memory 1 ▸
Open On Memory ›Chapter 2 451a18–453b11 -
Politics 1 ▸
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Chapter 10 1281a11–38 -
Sophistical Refutations 1 ▸
Open Sophistical Refutations ›Chapter 13 173a31–173b16
Dictionary (LSJ)
πάθη, ἡ, A. passive state, Pl. Ti. 80b; what is done or happens to a person orthing, opp. πρᾶξις, Id. Lg. 903b, cf. Epin. 983d; τὰς ἐκεῖ . . π. what happened there, S. Aj. 295; πᾶσαν τὴν ἑωντοῦ π. all that had happened to him, Hdt. 1.122. 2. suffering, misfortune, Pi. P. 3.42,97 (pl.), S. OC 7, etc.; πάθαι, opp. εὐτυχίαι, Hdt. 3.40; ἡ π. τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν blindness, Id. 2.111; of morbid affections, τὰς π. τὰς ἐν τῷ ὀστέῳ γινομένας Hp. VC 13; ἡ τοῦ πνίγους π. suffocation, Pl. Phlb. 32a, cf. Lg. 728c, 865e, 866b.
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