silliness, fatuity
silliness, fatuity, Pl. Tht. 174c, Smp. 198d, D. 19.98, Arist. Pol. 1315a3, etc.; ἀ. καὶ νωθρότης Id. Rh. 1390b30; pl., Phld. Lib. p.41 O.
The corpus record
ἀβελτερία
abelteria · ἡ
silliness, fatuity
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Where it lives
- Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
- Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
- Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
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In the wild
- ἀβελτερίαν · abelterian Aristotle, Economics 1352b (DIORISIS sentence 333)
- ἀβελτερίαν · abelterian Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 183)
- ἀβελτερίας · abelterias Aristotle, Politics 1314b (DIORISIS sentence 2214)
- ἀβελτερίαν · abelterian Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
- ἀβελτερία · abelteria Epictetus, Discourses 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 6855)
- ἀβελτερίας · abelterias Plato, Symposium 198 (DIORISIS sentence 461)
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