ἀρετή (arete)
Short definition (LSJ): generally, excellence, ἡ ἀ. τελείωσίς τις Arist.Metaph.1021b20, cf.EN1106a15, etc.; of persons, ἄνδρα πὺξ ἀρετὰν εὑρόντα Pi.O.7.89, cf.
Full entry: Lexicon.
602 occurrences of this form in 101 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Meno
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- Republic
- Laws
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Protagoras
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Library of History
- Histories
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- Memorabilia
- Histories (Books 3–9)
- Iliad
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- Discourses
- On Fugitives
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Gorgias
- Cyropaedia
- Odyssey
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- On the Migration of Abraham
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- Alcibiades I
- Laches
- Menexenus
- Cratylus
- Critias
- Timaeus
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- Metaphysics
- On the Mysteries
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 5
- On Drunkenness
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- Apology
- Phaedo
- Philebus
- Argonautica
- Fragments
- The Suppliants
- Against Apion, Book 2
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3
- The Jewish War, Book 3
- Meditations
- On the Giants
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- On the Posterity of Cain
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Cleitophon
- Epinomis
- Phaedrus
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- Letter to Marcella
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Anabasis
- 3 Maccabees
- 4 Maccabees
- Lysistrata
- On the Crown
- Andromache
- Heracles
- The Trojan Women
- Works and Days
- Life of Pythagoras
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 11
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 8
- Against Eratosthenes
- About the Planting of Noah
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- Charmides
- Crito
- Euthydemus
- Hippias Major
- Theaetetus
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Platonic Questions
- Life of Pythagoras
- Ajax
- Philoctetes
- Hellenica
- Symposium
Example passages
……ἐοίκασι τὴν τιμὴν διώκειν ἵνα πιστεύσωσιν ἑαυτοὺς ἀγαθοὺς εἶναι· ζητοῦσι γοῦν ὑπὸ τῶν φρονίμων τιμᾶσθαι, καὶ παρʼ οἷς γινώσκονται, καὶ ἐπʼ ἀρετῇ· δῆλον οὖν ὅτι κατά γε…
…ΜΕΝ. ἔχεις μοι εἰπεῖν, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἆρα διδακτὸν ἡ ἀρετή; ἢ οὐ διδακτὸν ἀλλʼ ἀσκητόν; ἢ οὔτε ἀσκητὸν οὔτε μαθητόν, ἀλλὰ φύσει παραγίγνεται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἢ ἄλλῳ τινὶ τρόπῳ;…
……τὰ κακά, φευκτέον ἐντεῦθεν. τίς οὖν ἡ φυγή; θεῷ, φησιν, ὁμοιωθῆναι. τοῦτο δέ, εἰ δίκαιοι καὶ ὅσιοι μετὰ φρονήσεως γενοίμεθα καὶ ὅλως ἐν ἀρετῇ. εἰ οὖν ἀρετῇ ὁμοιούμεθα, ἆρα ἀρετὴν ἔχοντι; καὶ δὴ καὶ τίνι ʽθεᾦ; ἆῤ οὖν τῷ μᾶλλον δοκοῦντι ταῦτα ἔχειν καὶ δὴ τῇ τοῦ κόσμου ψυχῇ καὶ τῷ ἐν ταύτῃ ἡγουμένῳ, ᾧ φρόνησις θαυμαστὴ ὑπάρχει; καὶ γὰρ……