πειράω
peirao
attempt, endeavour, try
Appears 99 times across Aristotle's works.
in Aristotle 99× · before him 328 · contemporaries 701
Frequency by work
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Politics 20 ▸
Open Politics ›Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 9 1256b40–1258a18Book IV 1 ▸
Chapter 7 1293a35–1293b21Book V 8 ▸
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Rhetoric 14 ▸
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Physics 4 ▸
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De Anima 3 ▸
Open De Anima ›Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 4 407b27–409a30 -
Generation of Animals 3 ▸
Open Generation of Animals ›Book IV 1 ▸
Chapter 1 763b20–766b26 -
Meteorology 3 ▸
Open Meteorology ›Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 14 351a19–353a28 -
Posterior Analytics 2 ▸
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Prior Analytics 2 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 2 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 2 ▸
Open On Generation and Corruption ›Book I 1 ▸
Chapter 5 320a8–322a33Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 8 334b30–335a23 -
On Dreams 2 ▸
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Poetics 2 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1 ▸
Open On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration ›Chapter 9 471a20–471b29 -
Movement of Animals 1 ▸
Open Movement of Animals ›Chapter 2 698b8–699a11 -
Physiognomonics 1 ▸
Open Physiognomonics ›Chapter 5 809a26–810a13 -
Sophistical Refutations 1 ▸
Open Sophistical Refutations ›Chapter 9 170a20–170b11
Dictionary (LSJ)
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Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
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πειράω — with the passages
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