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λεπτότης

leptotes · ἡ

thinness, fineness, delicacy, tenuity

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Where it lives

De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Timaeus 4 · 1.69/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

λεπτότης · leptotēs — LSJ

thinness

thinness, opp. παχύτης, Hp. VC 2.

2 fineness, delicacy, tenuity

fineness, delicacy, opp. πάχος, Pl. R. 523e, al.; of soil, Arr. Tact. 34.1; of the air, tenuity, Pl. Ti. 58b, Arist. Cael. 303b24, cf. Ph. 215b28: in pl., opp. πάχη, Id. HA 507b26; of the εἴδωλα, Epicur. Ep. 1p.10U.

3 thinness, meagreness

thinness, meagreness, of body, Pl. Lg. 646b.

II subtlety

metaph., subtlety, τῶν φρενῶν Ar. Nu. 153, cf. Luc. Bis Acc. 2.

In the wild

λεπτότητος · leptotētos Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 126)
λεπτότης · leptotēs Aristotle, De Somno et Vigilia (DIORISIS sentence 81)
λεπτοτήτων · leptotētōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8884)
λεπτότησιν · leptotēsin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8891)
λεπτότησιν · leptotēsin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8883)
λεπτότητος · leptotētos Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease 17 (DIORISIS sentence 216)

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