οἱονεί · hoionei — LSJ
as if
as if, Antiph. 231.6, Men. Georg. 58, Arist. HA 495b25, Pr. 923b33 ; = οἷον (οἷος V.2 d), Arist. de An. 430b13 ; Dor. οἷον αἰ Epich. 155 ; so οἱονπερεί (q. v.) ; οἱονανεί, Gloss.
The corpus record
οἱονεί
oionei
as if
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Where it lives
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 11 · 1.03/10k
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Enneads 7 · 0.33/10k
- Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
- Analytica priora et posteriora 1 · 0.18/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- οἱονεὶ · hoionei Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 765)
- οἱονεὶ · hoionei Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 173)
- οἱονεὶ · hoionei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9123)
- οἱονεὶ · hoionei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8812)
- οἱονεὶ · hoionei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8900)
- οἱονεὶ · hoionei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1724)
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