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κ1640Κίνησιςmotion, movementLargely from material in John Philoponus, On Aristotle's De anima (65.34-66.28, 71.9-10, 93.31-2, 94.1-95.35, 97.5-18, 98.10-14 & 19-20, 229.36-230.3, 272.17-18). In Adler the two sentences (below) beginning 'Motion ...', after the introductory paragraph, are …Matched in noteshighlong
κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… on marvels that has come down in the corpus of Aristotle's works but which scholars agree was not written by Aristotle. For this reason, the name Aristotle is enclosed in brackets when cited as …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1432Κεστρεῖςmullets

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The intellect [is] the cause of motion according to place among human beings, for it sets in motion the living being. By contrast, sensation [is the cause of motion] among irrational things. Alongside these there is…

Κίνησις· ὅτι τῆς κατὰ τόπον κινήσεως ἐν μὲν ἀνθρώποις ὁ νοῦς αἴτιος· αὐτὸς γὰρ κινεῖ τὸ ζῷον· ἐν δὲ ἀλόγοις ἡ αἴσθησις. ἕτερον δέ ἐστι παρὰ ταῦτα τὸ κατὰ τόπον κινητικόν· τὸ γὰρ…

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… (83 K.-A.), Theopompus fr. 13 Kock (14 K.-A.). [2] See Aristotle below. [3] Aristotle, History of Animals 591a: "All fishes devour their own species, with the single exception of the kestreus or mullet; and …

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κ1451Κεφαλισμόςmultiplication-table… its precise sense, as translated here, see LSJ s.v. [1] Aristotle, Topics 163b25-8. [2] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics 586.3-8 Wallies (Heath, p. 93). The Suda's unconventional spelling of two hundred follows …Matched in noteshighshort

κ225ΚαλλικύριοιKallikyrioi… 7.155: web address 1). [1] Timaeus FGrH 566 F8. [2] Aristotle fr.586 Rose (603 Gigon). [3] cf. Zenobius 4.54 and other paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighmedium

κ765Κατασκευάζεινto argue, to maintain, to prove… (construct a positive argument). [1] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 150.1-3 Wallies. [2] Polybius 8.9.3, citing Theopompus (theta 172) on Philip II of Macedon (phi 354).Matched in noteshighshort

κ1896Κοβαλείαroguery… 1895 and kappa 1897. [1] Philochorus FGrH 328 F6. [2] Aristotle, History of Animals 597b23-4 (in book eight, as Harpok.); cf. omega 266.Matched in noteshighshort

κ347ΚαπρίαιovariesFrom the epitome of Aristotle's History of Animals by Aristophanes of Byzantium. (In HA 632a21-22 Aristotle says something broadly similar -- minus the military context -- about sows.)Matched in noteshighshort

κ1135ΚαυλῶI form a shoot, I form a stalk… stalk" in Theophrastus, and e)gkaule/w "I am in stalk" in Aristotle.) [2] The compound verb e)kkaule/w "I run to stalk, I put forth a shoot/stalk" (LSJ s.v.: web address 1) appears twice in [Aristotle], …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1996Κομῆταιcomets… Diogenes Laertius 7.152-3 (= Chrysippus fr.692 SVF) For "bearded" cf. Aristotle, Meteorologica 344a23. [2] cf. delta 1326 (and Pliny, Natural History 2.96, for do/kos). [3] cf. Aristotle, Meteorologica 342a36. [4] At this point the …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2198Κούφη γῆ τοῦτον καλύπτοιmay light earth cover him, may the earth covering him be light… space (mete/wros) and moved around the middle of the cosmos (Aristotle, On the heaven B 13.295b 10). But if this is what the glossator has in mind, it is not particularly relevant to the …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ41Καθ' αὑτοῦ ΒελλεροφόντηςBellerophon against himself… and what follows, all comes from John Philoponus, Commentaries on Aristotle's De anima 111.24-112.33. [3] Virtue makes us virtuous. [4] Strength is not what makes us strong. [5] These are the diagonal relationships in …Matched in noteshighlong

κ47Καθεκάστην Καθέκασταevery single… is mostly used in philosophy and especially by commentators on Aristotle (very common in Alexander of Aphrodisias). Christian writers apparently prefer the form kaqe/kaston, which is also well-attested in Galen.Matched in noteshighshort

κ246Καλὸν πρᾶγμαfine thing, fine fact… Stoics. [5] Quotation not identified by Adler, but it is Aristotle, Topics 146a22.Matched in noteshighmedium

κ250ΚάλλοςbeautyAlexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 236.14-21 Wallies, abridged in such a way as to obscure the meaning. On o(moiome/reia, see omicron 310. [1] Alexander's text has sunairei= in the active, instead of …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ350Καπρῶνταςboaring, playing the boar… the verb kapra/w; it is used literally of sows in Aristotle, but when used figuratively of women -- as in e.g. Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 1024 (web address 1) -- implies a degree of lust …Matched in noteshighshort

κ365Καρδίαheart… what follows, see next note). [2] John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's De anima (ed. Hayduck) 382.1-7, 25-30; 383.29-384.2. [3] Anecdota Oxoniensia (ed. Cramer) 2.452.24.Matched in noteshighmedium

κ416Καρπὸςfruit, seed… [2] Contrast Hesychius pi1728. [3] cf. John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 217.33-35 Hayduck. See also kappa 1218.Matched in noteshighshort

κ441Καρχαρόδονταsaw-toothed creaturesSee also kappa 442. [1] cf. Aristotle, History of Animals 501a18; LSJ entry at web address 1 below.Matched in noteshighshort

κ525Κατὰ δήμους δικασταίdeme justices, justices by demes… of Athens itself. See generally the authority whom Harpok. cites: ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 53.Matched in noteshighshort

κ724Κατὰ ποσόνin point of frequency… lexica. LSJ s.v. poso/s has instances of this phrase in Aristotle and elsewhere.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1040Κατηγορίας ἔχωI have accusations… word that in judicial contexts is rendered 'accusation/prosecution' (kathgori/a). [4] Aristotle, Categories 1b26ff.Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1043Κατηδολέσχησά σουI wearied you with my prattling… Plutarch, Moralia 503B (from the de Garrulitate), an anecdote about Aristotle wearied with the talk of an interlocutor. As in Julian's letter, the form is used by the interlocutor about his own speech and …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1126Κατοιχομένουof one having departed… first attested in this sense in the C4 BCE (Demosthenes, Aristotle), see generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1138Καύνιος ἔρωςKaunian passionMentioned by Aristotle, Rhetoric 1402b3: "one would not speak of 'Kaunian passion' unless there were some passions which were bad". Kaunos and his sister Byblis were incestuous lovers as well as siblings: see Ovid, …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1206Καὶ σφάκελοι ποιοῦσιν ἀτέλειανeven pains bring tax-exemption… sigma 1711, and Zenobius 4.76. The story first appears in ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 16.6; see also Diodorus Siculus 9.37.2-3.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1218Κεγχραμίδεςpips… "fig seed" is found in: Hippocrates, De Natura Mulierum 109; Aristotle, History of Animals 549a (describing the size of a small crawfish egg); and often in Theophrastus and medical authors. The singular is glossed …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1347Κέπφοςstormy petrel… scholion. [4] Anecdote repeated in several scholiasts, and ultimately from Aristotle, History of Animals 620a; the particular wording ("forward, then close by") occurs in the scholia to Plutus (see above) and Tzetzes' commentary on …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1429Κεστρᾶν τεμάχηmullets' slices… animal is insatiable" (on the gluttony of mullets, discussed in Aristotle, see kappa 1432). The two interpretations are merged together in Diogenianus 3.1 (Vienna codex) and Zenobius 4.52; in Diogenianus' wording: "concerning the very …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1431Κεστρεύςmullet, kestreus… together -- so e.g. Archestratus fr.45 Brandt; Oppian, Halieutica 1.111; Aristotle, History of Animals 567a, 591a, 602a; Aelian, History of Animals 13.19; Geoponica 20.41 -- though they are distinguished in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.306D-E (7.77 …Matched in noteshighshort

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