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τερᾰτ-ώδης

teratodes

portentous, prodigious

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Where it lives

De Insomniis 1 · 4.19/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

τερᾰτ-ώδης · terat-ōdēs — LSJ

portentous, prodigious

portentous, prodigious, Ar. Nu. 364; σοφία τ. X. Ep. 1; also of men, τ. εἰς σοφίαν Pl. Euthd. 296e; τὸ τερατῶδες Arist. Po. 1453b9; τ. ἀναπλασμοί Metrod. Herc. 831.5, cf. Jul. Or. 7.206c.

II monstrous

monstrous, of strange births (τέρας II.2), Arist. GA 772a36, al., Sor. 2.55; τὰ τ. Phld. Sign. 7; τ. ζῴδια, viz. Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, Cat.Cod.Astr. 1.166: Sup., -ωδεστάτη ὄψις Ph. 2.99, cf. Phld. Mort. 38. Adv. -δῶς, opp. κατὰ φύσιν, Arist. HA 496b18, cf. D.S. 1.26.

In the wild

τερατῶδες · teratōdes Aristotle, Ars Poetica 14
τερατώδεις · teratōdeis Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 56)
τερατῶδες · teratōdes Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
τερατώδη · teratōdē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6558)
τερατώδεσιν · teratōdesin Plato, Euthydemus 296

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