The corpus record

μῑμ-ητικός

mimetikos

able to imitate

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Where it lives

Sophist 9 · 5.62/10k
Ars Poetica 5 · 4.94/10k
Epinomis 2 · 3.17/10k
Republic 14 · 1.58/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

μῑμ-ητικός · mim-ētikos — LSJ

able to imitate, imitative

able to imitate, Porph. Abst. 3.4; esp. of the arts (including music and poetry), imitative, Pl. Lg. 668a, Arist. Po. 1451a30, etc.; μ. ποιητής Pl. R. 605asq.; ἡ φωνὴ πάντων -ώτατον τῶν μορίων Arist. Rh. 1404a22: ἡ -κή (with or without τέχνη) Pl. Sph. 265a, R. 598b; ἡ ἐν ἑξαμέτροις μ. Arist. Po. 1449b21. Adv. -κῶς Plu. Aud.poet. 2.18b, Gal. 8.155, Ath. 11.505b; μ. ζῆν Procl. in R. 1.60 K.: Comp. -ώτερον Ptol. Harm. 3.3.

In the wild

μιμητικήν · mimētikēn Aristotle, Ars Poetica 13
μιμητικῆς · mimētikēs Aristotle, Ars Poetica 23
μιμητικώτατόν · mimētikōtaton Aristotle, Ars Poetica 4
μιμητικῆς · mimētikēs Aristotle, Ars Poetica 6
μιμητικαῖς · mimētikais Aristotle, Ars Poetica 8
μιμητικώτατον · mimētikōtaton Aristotle, Rhetoric 3

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Where it came from

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