The corpus record

ἀβέβαιος

abebaios

unreliable

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Where it lives

De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 1 · 0.18/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant — LSJ

unreliable, unsteady, an insecure position

unreliable, of remedies, Hp. Aph. 2.27; ἀβεβαιότατον ὧν κεκτήμεθα (sc. πλοῦτος) Alex. 281, cf. Men. 128; ὀφθαλμὸς ἀ. unsteady, Arist. HA 492a12: metaph., τύχη Democr. 176, cf. Plb. 15.34.2; αἰτία Epicur. Ep. 3, p.65U.; φιλία Arist. EE 1236b19; τὸ ἀ. = ἀβεβαιότης, Hierocl. in CA 2p.422M., Heraclit. Ep. 7; ἐξ ἀβεβαίου from an insecure position, Arr. An. 1.15.2.

2 unstable, fickle

of persons, unstable, fickle, D. 58.63, Arist. EN 1172a9. Adv. -ως Men. Georg.Fr. 2.

In the wild

ἀβέβαιον · abebaion Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 2031)
ἀβέβαια · abebaia Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 89)
ἀβέβαιος · abebaios Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
ἀβέβαιοι · abebaioi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1172a (DIORISIS sentence 3444)
ἀβεβαιοτέρων · abebaioterōn Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
ἀβέβαιον · abebaion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9278)

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