πενία

penia

poverty, need

Appears 18 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Politics 8
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Book I 1
Chapter 11 1258b9–1259a36

1259a9
Book II 2
Chapter 6 1264b26–1266a30

1265b11
1265b12
Book III 1
Chapter 8 1279b11–1280a6

1279b40
Book V 2
Chapter 3 1302b5–1303b16

1303b16

Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10

1313b25
Book VI 1
Chapter 2 1317a40–1318a10

1317b40
Book VII 1
Chapter 13 1331b24–1332b11

1332a19
Nicomachean Ethics 4
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Book III 3
Chapter 6 1115a6–1115b6

1115a10
1115a17

Chapter 7 1115b7–1116a14

1116a13
Book VIII 1
Chapter 1 1155a3–1155b16

1155a11
Rhetoric 4
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Book I 2
Chapter 10 1368b1–1369b32

1369a11
1369a15
Book II 2
Chapter 2 1378a30–1380a9

1379a20

Chapter 7 1385a16–1385b10

1385a25
Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book III 1
Chapter 1 1228a23–1230a33

1230a12
Book VII 1
Chapter 2 1235b13–1238b14

1238b6

Dictionary (LSJ)

πενία, Ion. -ιη, ἡ, (πένομαι) A. poverty, need, πενίῃ εἴκων Od. 14.157; οὐλομένην π. Hes. Op. 717; στάσις πενίας δότειρα Pi. Fr. 109.5; τῇ Ἑλλάδι π. σύντροφός ἐστι, . . [ἀρετῇ] δὲ διαχρεωμένη τὴν πενίην ἀπαμύνεται Hdt. 7.102 ; τῆς πτωχείας πενίαν φαμὲν εἶναι ἀδελφήν Ar. Pl. 549 ; π. δὲ σοφίαν ἔλαχε διὰ τὸ συγγενές (v.l. δυστυχές) E. Fr. 641 ; ἐν πενίᾳ εἶναι, γίγνεσθαι, Pl. Ap. 23c, R. 613a ; εἰς π. πολλὴν καὶ ἀπορίαν καταστῆναι And. 1.144 : pl. πενίαι Isoc. 8.128, Pl. Prt. 353d, R. 618a, etc. 2. lack, need, τινος Plot. 2.4.16. II. Πενία personified, Poverty, Alc. 92, Pl. Smp. 203b.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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