ἄψυχος

apsychos

lifeless, inanimate

Appears 26 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 12
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Book VI 1
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782c8
Book VIII 2
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830c1
830b8
Book IX 1
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873e6
Book X 2
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889b5
896b8
Book XI 2
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931e1
931a2
Book XII 4
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959d1
967c4
967a8
967b3
Sophist 5
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219e7
265c2
220a2
227a3
227b7
Statesman 4
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261c8
261b7
261b13
292b12
Phaedrus 2
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245e5
246b6
Euthydemus 1
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287d8
Letters 1
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335a1
Timaeus 1
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74e2

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἄψυχος, ον, A. lifeless, inanimate, πόθῳ Archil. 84; μνημεῖʼ ἄψυχʼ ἐμψύχων Simon. 106.4, cf. E. Fr. 655, Tr. 623; λωτὸς ἄ. ἔμπνουν ἀνίει Μοῦσαν Sopat. 10; ἃ -ότατα τῶν ὀστῶν with least life or sensation, Pl. Ti. 74e, cf. Arist. de An. 413a21, etc.; ἄ. θεοί, of statues, Timae. 127. 2. ἄ. βορά non-animal food, E. Hipp. 952. II. spiritless, faint-hearted, κάκη A. Th. 192; ἀνήρ Trag.Adesp. 337: ἀψυχότεραι αἱ θήλειαι [ἐλέφαντες] Arist. HA 610a21; of style, lifeless, D.H. Dem. 20. Adv. -χως Poll. 2.227. III. materialistic, λόγος Porph. Gaur. 14.4 (Comp.).

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