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ἀλείπ-της

aleiptes · ὁ

anointer, trainer, teacher

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Where it lives

Discourses 5 · 0.67/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ἀλείπ-της · aleip-tēs — LSJ

anointer, trainer

anointer: hence (cf. ἀλείφω I) trainer in gymnasia, Arist. EN 1106b1, Plb. 27.7.1, Sammelb. 4224.7 (i B. C.), Plu. Sanit. 2.133b.

2 teacher

metaph., οἱ ἀθληταὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς μὴ ψεύσαντες τοὺς ἀλείπτας νόμους Ph. 2.409; teacher, τῶν πολιτικῶν Plu. Per. 4; τῆς κακίας S.E. M. 1.298.

3 bath-attendant

Lat. aliptes, bath-attendant, Juv. 6.422.

In the wild

ἀλείπτης · aleiptēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1106b (DIORISIS sentence 490)
ἀλείπτην · aleiptēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7133)
ἀλείπτης · aleiptēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7371)
ἀλείπτης · aleiptēs Epictetus, Discourses 1.24 (DIORISIS sentence 1206)
ἀλείπτου · aleiptou Epictetus, Discourses 3.10 (DIORISIS sentence 4352)
ἀλείπτης · aleiptēs Epictetus, Discourses 3.20 (DIORISIS sentence 4718)

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