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δημιουργ-έω

demiourgeo

practise a handicraft

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Where it lives

Statesman 9 · 5.31/10k
Epinomis 3 · 4.76/10k
Timaeus 9 · 3.81/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 2 · 2.56/10k
Against Aphobus 1 1 · 2.2/10k
Philebus 3 · 1.7/10k
De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Sophist 2 · 1.25/10k
Republic 11 · 1.24/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

δημιουργ-έω · dēmiourg-eō — LSJ

practise a handicraft, for

practise a handicraft, Pl. Plt. 288d, etc.; τινί for one, Id. Lg. 846e, R. 342e: metaph., ἡ δημιουργήσασα φύσις Arist. PA 645a9.

2 work at, fabricate, to train, to be wrought, fabricated, products of arts and crafts

c. acc. rei, work at, fabricate, Pl. Plt. 288e; ἡ φύσις οὐδὲν δ. μάτην Arist. IA 711a18, cf. PA 647b5; δ. τὸν υἱὸν εἰς ἀρετήν to train him to . ., Plu. Cat.Ma. 20:—Pass., to be wrought or fabricated, Pl. R. 414d, al.; τὰ δημιουργούμενα products of arts and crafts, Arist. EN 1094b14.

3 create

of divine power, create, τὸν ὁρατὸν κόσμον Ph. 1.4; ὁ δημιουργῶν θεός Numen. ap. Eus. PE 11.18.6, cf. Dam. Pr. 304, etc.:— Pass., Procl. Inst. 207.

II hold office of δημιουργός, to be a civil official

hold office of δημιουργός, CIG 4415b (Iotapata), etc.; of a woman, Supp.Epigr. 1.393 (Samos, i B. C.); δαμιοργέοντος Μίκκωνος IG 9(1).330 (Locr.); to be a civil official, opp. στρατηγέω, Artem. 2.22.

b administer

c. acc., administer, δαμιουργεόντων τὰ ἱερά IG 9(1).32.44 (Stiris).

In the wild

δημιουργήσασα · dēmiourgēsasa Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 114)
δημιουργεῖται · dēmiourgeitai Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 189)
δημιουργεῖ · dēmiourgei Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 103)
δημιουργοῦν · dēmiourgoun Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 134)
δημιουργουμένοις · dēmiourgoumenois Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1094b (DIORISIS sentence 24)
δημιουργοῖς · dēmiourgois Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 32 (DIORISIS sentence 95)

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