περίεργος

periergos

taking needless trouble

Appears 37 times across Aristotle's works.

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Parts of Animals 6
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Book I 2
Chapter 2 642b5–20

642b8

Chapter 3 642b21–644a11

644a1
Book III 1
Chapter 1 661a34–662b22

661b24
Book IV 3
Chapter 11 690b11–692b2

691b4

Chapter 12 692b3–695a27

694a15

Chapter 13 695a28–697b13

695b19
Rhetoric 6
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Book I 3
Chapter 4 1359a30–1360b3

1359b27
1360a10

Chapter 10 1368b1–1369b32

1369a8
Book III 3
Chapter 1 1404a6–39

1404a6

Chapter 12 1413b3–1414a30

1414a10
1414a20
Topics 6
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Book VI 6
Chapter 1 139a24–139b18

139b17

Chapter 3 140a23–141a22

140a36
140b1
140b9
141a12

Chapter 14 151a20–151b24

151b22
Generation of Animals 5
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Book II 5
Chapter 4 737b8–741a5

739b19
739b20

Chapter 6 741b25–745b20

742a27
744a36
744a38
Eudemian Ethics 3
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Book I 2
Chapter 3 1214b28–1215a19

1214b29

Chapter 6 1216b26–1217a17

1216b37
Book II 1
Chapter 3 1220b21–1221b26

1221b4
Metaphysics 3
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Book Ζ 3
Chapter 11 1036a26–1037b7

1036b23

Chapter 12 1037b8–1038a35

1038a21
1038a32
On Generation and Corruption 2
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Book I 2
Chapter 8 324b25–326b28

326b8
326b21
Politics 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 1267b22–1269a28

1267b25
Book V 1
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10

1315a40
Prior Analytics 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 32 46b40–47b14

47a18
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book IX 1
Chapter 10 1170b20–1171a20

1170b27
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 27 480a16–480b30

480b27
Physics 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 6 189a11–189b29

189b22

Dictionary (LSJ)

περίεργος, ον, A. taking needless trouble, Lys. 12.35; γραμματικῶν π. γένη AP 11.322 (Antiphan.). Adv.-γως Hp. Decent. 7. 2. officious, meddlesome, Isoc. 5.98, X. Mem. 1.3.1, Men. Sam. 85; π. εἰμι I am a busy-body, Id. Epit. 45; περίεργα βλέπειν look curiously at, c. acc., AP 12.175 (Strat.), cf. Hdn. 5.3.8 (Comp.). 3. of an inquiring mind, Arist. Resp. 480b27; inquisitive, curious, Hdn. 4.12.3 (Sup.); π. παιδία Gal. 6.635; τὸ π. Luc. Alex. 4. Adv.-γως, ἔχειν Astramps. Orac.p.1 H.: Comp. -ότερον, ἔχειν πρός τινα Jul. Or. 4.130d. II. Pass., overwrought, elaborate, ὀδμή (perfume) Hp. Praec. 10; φορήματα Ar. Fr. 321; ζωγράφημα Plu. 2.64a; τὸ τῆς κόμης π. Luc. Nigr. 13; esp. of language or style, ὀνόματα, λόγοι, Aeschin. 3.229, D.H. Lys. 14; τὸ π. Θουκυδίδου Id. Vett.Cens. 3.2 : Comp., -οτέρα λέξις Id. Is. 3. Adv. -γως Antyll. ap. Orib. 9.14.7 : Comp. -ότερον, ἠσκημένος τὴν κόμην Arr. Epict. 3.1.1; ἐξορχεῖσθαι Hdn. 5.5.3. 2. superfluous, π. καὶ μακρὰ λέγειν Pl. Plt. 286c; ὅπως εἴ τις π. ἀφαιρεθῇ (sc. δαπάνη) Arist. Rh. 1359b27; π. ἐστί τι And. 3.33, cf. Is. 1.31; π. [ἐστι] τὸ λέγειν Arist. Pol. 1315a40, cf. Rh. 1369a8; futile, useless, πόλεμος Isoc. 15.117. Adv. -γως Timocl. 13.4, etc. 3. curious, superstitious, ἱερουργίαι Plu. Alex. 2; τὰ π. curious arts, magic, Act.Ap. 19.19.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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