The corpus record

καταφρόν-ησις

kataphronesis · ἡ

contempt, disdain

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Meditations 5 · 1.72/10k
Politics 6 · 0.92/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Rhetoric 3 · 0.7/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
History 3 · 0.2/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

καταφρόν-ησις · kataphron-ēsis — LSJ

contempt, disdain, disregard, neglect

contempt, disdain, Th. 1.122, Pl. R. 558b, Arist. Rh. 1378b14, D.S. 1.93, etc.; disregard, neglect, PMasp. 94.13 (vi A.D.), etc.; εἰς κ. ἄγειν τοὺς λόγους D.H. Orat.Vett. 2; περὶ ἀλόγου κ., title of work by Polystratus: also without any bad sense, opp. αὔχημα, Th. 2.62.

In the wild

καταφρόνησιν · kataphronēsin Aristotle, Politics 1302b (DIORISIS sentence 1860)
καταφρόνησιν · kataphronēsin Aristotle, Politics 1302b (DIORISIS sentence 1847)
καταφρόνησιν · kataphronēsin Aristotle, Politics 1311a (DIORISIS sentence 2093)
καταφρόνησιν · kataphronēsin Aristotle, Politics 1311b (DIORISIS sentence 2119)
καταφρόνησιν · kataphronēsin Aristotle, Politics 1312a (DIORISIS sentence 2121)
καταφρονήσεως · kataphronēseōs Aristotle, Politics 1312b (DIORISIS sentence 2138)

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