ἐπιθυμία (epithymia)
Short definition (LSJ): c. gen., longing after a thing, desire of or for it, ὕδατος, τοῦ πιεῖν,
Full entry: Lexicon.
162 occurrences of this form in 67 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
- Republic
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- Cratylus
- Laws
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- 4 Maccabees
- Discourses
- Phaedrus
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Sirach
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On the Confusion of Languages
- Letters
- Symposium
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- Platonic Questions
- Against Apion, Book 1
- Meditations
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Migration of Abraham
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Charmides
- Lysis
- Statesman
- Letter to Marcella
- Memorabilia
- Library of History
- Life of Pythagoras
- On the Mysteries
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 13
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 16
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 7
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 8
- The Jewish War, Book 1
- The Jewish War, Book 2
- The Jewish War, Book 4
- The Jewish War, Book 5
- The Jewish War, Book 7
- On Drunkenness
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Posterity of Cain
- On the Tilling of the Earth by Noah
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Crito
- Gorgias
- Phaedo
- Philebus
- Protagoras
- Theaetetus
- Theages
- Timaeus
- Consolation to His Wife
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Apology of Socrates
Example passages
……οὔ. οἱ δὲ λέγοντες αὐτὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ἢ θυμὸν ἢ βούλησιν ἤ τινα δόξαν οὐκ ἐοίκασιν ὀρθῶς λέγειν. οὐ γὰρ κοινὸν ἡ προαίρεσις καὶ τῶν ἀλόγων, ἐπιθυμία δὲ καὶ θυμός. καὶ ὁ ἀκρατὴς ἐπιθυμῶν μὲν πράττει, προαιρούμενος δʼ οὔ· ὁ ἐγκρατὴς δʼ ἀνάπαλιν…
…τῇ διανοίᾳ· δόντες ἐξουσίαν ἑκατέρῳ ποιεῖν ὅτι ἂν βούληται, τῷ τε δικαίῳ καὶ τῷ ἀδίκῳ, εἶτʼ ἐπακολουθήσαιμεν θεώμενοι ποῖ ἡ ἐπιθυμία ἑκάτερον ἄξει. ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ οὖν λάβοιμεν ἂν τὸν δίκαιον τῷ ἀδίκῳ εἰς ταὐτὸν ἰόντα διὰ τὴν πλεονεξίαν, ὃ πᾶσα φύσις διώκειν πέφυκεν ὡς ἀγαθόν, νόμῳ δὲ βίᾳ παράγεται ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ ἴσου τιμήν. εἴη δʼ ἂν……
…ὅταν δὲ ἔμπαλιν ἀφηνιάσῃ καὶ ἀναχαιτίσῃ ὁ θυμὸς καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία καὶ τὸν ἡνίοχον, λέγω δὲ τὸν λογισμόν, τῇ βίᾳ τῆς ὁρμῆς κατασύρῃ καὶ ὑποζεύξῃ, ἑκάτερον δὲ πάθος λάβηται τῶν ἡνιῶν, ἀδικία κρατεῖ· ἀνάγκη γὰρ ἀπειρίᾳ καὶ κακίᾳ τοῦ ἡνιόχου τὰ ὑπεζευγμένα κατὰ……