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μέθοδ-ος

methodos · ἡ

following after, pursuit

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Where it lives

De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
Sophist 6 · 3.75/10k
Ars Poetica 2 · 1.98/10k
Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
Phaedrus 3 · 1.8/10k
Statesman 3 · 1.77/10k
Rhetoric 7 · 1.63/10k
Politics 10 · 1.53/10k
Eudemian Ethics 3 · 1.15/10k
Phaedo 2 · 0.92/10k
Republic 8 · 0.9/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μέθοδ-ος · method-os — LSJ

following after, pursuit

following after, pursuit, νύμφης μέθοδον ποιεῖσθαι Anon. ap. Suid. s.v. ζεῦγος ἡμιονικόν (EM 409.35):—hence,

II pursuit of knowledge, investigation, inquiry, treatise

pursuit of knowledge, investigation, Pl. Sph. 218d, 235c, al.; μ. ποιεῖσθαι to pursue oneʼs inquiry, ib. 243d; ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ μ. Arist. Pol. 1289a26: hence, treatise, Dam. Pr. 451.

2 mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, plan, system

mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, Pl. Phdr. 270c, Arist. EN 1129a6, Pol. 1252a18, etc.; ἡ διαλεκτικὴ μ. Pl. R. 533c, Arist. Rh. 1358a4; joined with τέχνη, Id. EN 1094a1, cf. Phld. Rh. 1.32 S.; μ. ἔχειν to have a plan or system, Arist. Top. 101a29; ἡ περὶ τὸν πίνακα μ. Plu. Rom. 12.

3 doctrine

ἡ τοῦ πάντα κινεῖσθαι μ. the doctrine of motion, Pl. Tht. 183c.

4 ‘methodic’ medicine

‘methodic’ medicine, ἰητὴρ μεθόδου . . προστάτα Epigr.Gr. 306 (Smyrna), cf. Julian. ap. Gal. 18(1).256.

5 means

Rhet., means, τῆς εὑρέσεως, τοῦ κατορθοῦν, τοῦ ἀνεπαχθῶς ἑαυτὸν ἐπαινεῖν, Hermog. Meth. 2, 22, 25.

b means of recognizing

means of recognizing, τῶν στάσεων Id. Stat. 1, 2.

c mode of treating

mode of treating the subject-matter, Id. Id. 1.1.

III trick, ruse, stratagem

trick, ruse, Plu. Apophth.reg. 2.176a: pl., Vett.Val. 242.11; μ. ἐρωτικαί Aristaenet. 1.17; stratagem, LXX 2 Ma. 13.18.

In the wild

μεθόδου · methodou Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 646)
μέθοδον · methodon Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 856)
μέθοδον · methodon Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1398)
μεθόδωι · methodōi Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 657)
μεθόδου · methodou Aristotle, Ars Poetica 19
μεθόδου · methodou Aristotle, Ars Poetica 1

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