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ἔμψῡχ-ος

empsuchos

having life in one, animate

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Where it lives

Epinomis 2 · 3.17/10k
Sophist 5 · 3.12/10k
Philebus 5 · 2.84/10k
Timaeus 5 · 2.12/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 21 · 1.96/10k
Statesman 3 · 1.77/10k
Enneads 36 · 1.7/10k
De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Eudemian Ethics 4 · 1.53/10k
Metaphysics 12 · 1.53/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἔμψῡχ-ος · empsych-os — LSJ

having life in one, animate, breathing, animals, most full of vital fluid

having life in one, animate, opp. ἄψυχος, Hdt. 1.140, al., Simon. 106.4, S. OC 1486, E. Alc. 139, Pl. Phdr. 245e, al.; ἔ. νεκρός ‘a breathing corpse’, S. Ant. 1167; γῦπες ἔ. τάφοι Gorg. Fr. 5a D.; μὴ κτείνειν τὸ ἔ., of Empedocles, Arist. Rh. 1373b14, cf. E. Fr. 472.18 (anap.); ἔμψυχον οὐδὲν ἐσθίει Alex. 27.2, cf. 220.3; δοῦλος ἔ. ὄργανον Arist. EN 1161b4; εἶναι τὸν βασιλέα ἔ. νόμον Ph. 2.135, cf. Diotog. ap. Stob. 4.7.61; ἔμψυχα, τά, animals, Th. 7.29, PGiss. 40 ii 22 (iii A. D.): Sup., ὅσα ἐμψυ

2 animated, vivid

of diction, animated, vivid, λέξεις Arist. Fr. 129 Bonitz, cf. Luc. Dem.Enc. 14; so ἔ. ἄγαλμα AP 12.56 (Mel.); πάθη Longin. 34.4: Comp., ἡ ἀληθὴς εὐφημία -οτέρα τῶν Δαιδάλου ἔργων Them. Or. 28.342d. Adv. -ως Plu. An seni 2.790f: Sup. -ότατα Herm. in Phdr. p.61A.

In the wild

ἔμψυχον · empsychon Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 124)
ἔμψυχός · empsychos Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 64)
ἐμψύχων · empsychōn Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 81)
ἐμψύχοις · empsychois Aristotle, Economics 1345a (DIORISIS sentence 105)
ἐμψύχοις · empsychois Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
ἐμψύχων · empsychōn Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2

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