φαυλότης

phaulotes

meanness, poorness, badness

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Nicomachean Ethics 4
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Book II 1
Chapter 6 1106a14–1107a27

1107a10
Book VII 1
Chapter 6 1149a24–1150a8

1150a5
Book VIII 1
Chapter 10 1160a31–1161a9

1160b10
Book X 1
Chapter 5 1175a21–1176a29

1175b25
Parts of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 3 664a12–665a26

665a8
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 15 1375a22–1378a15

1376a29
Sophistical Refutations 1
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Chapter 16 175a1–30

175a15

Dictionary (LSJ)

φαυλότης, ητος, ἡ, A. meanness, poorness, badness, of persons and things, Pl. Lg. 646b, Isoc. 4.146 (pl.); τῆς στολῆς X. Cyr. 2.4.5; τῶν βρωμάτων ib.5.2.16; φ. χώρας, opp. ἀρετή, poorness of soil, Pl. Lg. 745d; opp. ἐπιείκεια, Arist. EN 1175b25; φ. μοναρχίας ἡ τυραννίς ib. 1160b10: in pl., states of bad health, Dsc. 2.49. 2. want of accomplishments or skill, Hp. Art. 77 (v.l. for φλαυρότης), E. Fr. 641; στρατηγῶνφ. D. 18.303; ἡ ἐμὴ φ. my lack of judgement, my poor judgement, X. Mem. 4.2.39, Pl. Hp.Ma. 286d. 3. in good sense, plainness, simplicity of life, ἡ ἀμφὶ τὸ σῶμα φ. X. Ages. 11.11, cf. HG 4.1.30.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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