The corpus record

ἀδια-φορία

adiaphoria · ἡ

indifference

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Where it lives

Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ἀδια-φορία · adia-phoria — LSJ

indifference, absence of difference

indifference, Stoic, of the moral agent, Aristo Stoic. 1.83, Chrysipp. ib. 3.9, cf. Cic. Acad.Pr. 2.42.130, S.E. P. 1.152; absence of difference, Syr.in Metaph. 122.1, cf. sq. [ἀδιάφορος]

II neglect

neglect, Hierocl. in CA 7p.430M.

III equivalence of signification

equivalence of signification, Eust. 150.25.

In the wild

ἀδιαφορίαν · adiaphorian Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5739)
ἀδιαφορίας · adiaphorias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8223)
ἀδιαφορίας · adiaphorias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8222)
ἀδιαφορίαν · adiaphorian Epictetus, Discourses 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2059)
ἀδιαφορίᾳ · adiaphoriai Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.31.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1038)

Where it came from

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