The corpus record

ὀλῐγό-της

oligotes · ἡ

fewness, fewness of rulers, smallness, scantiness

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Where it lives

Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
Metaphysics 4 · 0.51/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ὀλῐγό-της · oligo-tēs — LSJ

1 fewness, fewness of rulers

fewness, Pl. Lg. 678c, Arist. Metaph. 984a10, al., LXX Ps. 101(102).23, Plu. Alex. 20 ; fewness of rulers, Arist. Pol. 1279b27.

2 smallness, scantiness

smallness, scantiness, Pl. R. 591e, Lg. 745d ; of food, Epicur. Fr. 456.

3 shortness

of Time, shortness, Pl. Tht. 158d.

4 feebleness

feebleness of voice, Poll. 6.145.

In the wild

ὀλιγότης · oligotēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
ὀλιγότητος · oligotētos Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 8
ὀλιγότητι · oligotēti Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2727)
ὀλιγότητι · oligotēti Aristotle, Metaphysics book 14 (DIORISIS sentence 4011)
ὀλιγότητι · oligotēti Aristotle, Metaphysics book 1 (DIORISIS sentence 89)
ὀλιγότητι · oligotēti Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 927)

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