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μερ-ιστός

meristos

divided, separate, individual, with its inevitable distinctions

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Enneads 32 · 1.51/10k
Parmenides 2 · 1.32/10k
Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
Metaphysics 2 · 0.25/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

μερ-ιστός · mer-istos — LSJ

divided, separate, individual, with its inevitable distinctions

divided, Pl. Prm. 144d; τὸ κατὰ τὰ σώματα μ. Id. Ti. 35a; μ. ψυχαί, φύσεις, separate, individual, Jul. Or. 4.151c; δημιουργία ib. 144a, Or. 5.179b, cf. Plot. 1.1.8; ὁ μ. λόγος reason with its inevitable distinctions, Dam. Pr. 41.

II divisible, divisible among

divisible, Pl. Prm. 131c; μ. ψυχὴ ἢ ἀμερής Arist. de An. 402b1; ἅπαν [συνεχὲς] εἰς ἄπειρα μ. Id. Ph. 239a22, cf. Timo 76; ὅσα μ. τοῖς κοινωνοῦσι τῆς πολιτείας divisible among them, Arist. EN 1130b32; τὸ μ. Iamb. Comm.Math. 1. Adv. -τῶς Id. Myst. 1.18, Porph. Sent. 33, Procl. Inst. 195.

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μεριστὴ · meristē Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
μεριστὴ · meristē Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
μεριστόν · meriston Aristotle, Metaphysics book 11 (DIORISIS sentence 3122)
μεριστόν · meriston Aristotle, Metaphysics book 5 (DIORISIS sentence 1457)
μεριστόν · meriston Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1102a (DIORISIS sentence 339)
μεριστὰ · merista Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1130b (DIORISIS sentence 1592)

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