The corpus record

μικρο-λογία

mikrologia · ἡ

meanness, stinginess

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Where it lives

Virtues and Vices 2 · 13.49/10k
Against the Sophists 1 · 7.55/10k
Hippias Major 1 · 1.18/10k
Antidosis 2 · 1.14/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

μικρο-λογία · mikro-logia — LSJ

meanness, stinginess

meanness, stinginess, Thphr. Char. 10, Plb. 31.27.16.

II pettiness, hair-splitting, meticulous arguments, ‘logic-chopping’, minutiae

pettiness, Pl. R. 486a, Arist. Metaph. 995a10, Plot. 1.4.7; hair-splitting, Isoc. 13.8, etc.: pl., meticulous arguments, ‘logic-chopping’, Pl. Hp.Ma. 304b; minutiae, in Art, D.H. Comp. 25.

2 disparagement, depreciating language

disparagement, depreciating language, Isoc. 15.2.

In the wild

μικρολογίαν · mikrologian Aristotle, Metaphysics book 2 (DIORISIS sentence 421)
μικρολογία · mikrologia Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 66)
μικρολογία · mikrologia Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 69)
σμικρολογίας · smikrologias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5586)
μικρολογίαν · mikrologian Isocrates, Against the Sophists 7 (DIORISIS sentence 13)
μικρολογίαν · mikrologian Isocrates, Antidosis 262 (DIORISIS sentence 528)

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