ἦθος (ethos)
Short definition (LSJ): custom, usage: in pl., manners, customs,
Full entry: Lexicon.
148 occurrences of this form in 64 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Republic
- Laws
- Nicomachean Ethics
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- Histories
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Life of Pythagoras
- Meditations
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Letters
- Statesman
- The Jewish War, Book 1
- The Jewish War, Book 2
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- On Controlling Anger
- The Suppliants
- Works and Days
- On the Mysteries
- The Jewish War, Book 6
- On Fugitives
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Education of Children
- Antigone
- Memorabilia
- Symposium
- 4 Maccabees
- Sirach
- Wasps
- On the Crown
- Library of History
- Discourses
- Electra
- Medea
- Antidosis
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 14
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 9
- The Jewish War, Book 4
- The Life of Josephus
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Critias
- Lysis
- Phaedrus
- Symposium
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Isis and Osiris
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- Platonic Questions
- Life of Pythagoras
- Ajax
Example passages
……ἄλλους σφᾶς διολέσαι, ἀλλʼ αὐτοὶ φθήσονται αὐτὸ δράσαντες. ἀληθῆ, ἔφη. τί οὖν, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, ποιήσομεν; πόθεν ἅμα πρᾷον καὶ μεγαλόθυμον ἦθος εὑρήσομεν; ἐναντία γάρ που θυμοειδεῖ πρᾳεῖα φύσις. φαίνεται. ἀλλὰ μέντοι τούτων γε ὁποτέρου ἂν στέρηται, φύλαξ ἀγαθὸς οὐ μὴ γένηται· ταῦτα δὲ ἀδυνάτοις ἔοικεν, καὶ οὕτω…
……ἡττημένης τινὸς ψυχῆς βάσανον λαμβάνειν, ἐπιτρέποντα αὑτοῦ θυγατέρας τε καὶ ὑεῖς καὶ γυναῖκας, οὕτως, ἐν τοῖς φιλτάτοις κινδυνεύσαντες, ἦθος ψυχῆς θεάσασθαι; καὶ μυρία δὴ λέγων οὐκ ἄν τίς ποτε ἀνύσειεν ὅσῳ διαφέρει τὸ μετὰ παιδιᾶς τὴν ἄλλως ἄνευ μισθοῦ ζημιώδους θεωρεῖν. καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῦτο μὲν αὐτὸ περί…
…ματαίως ἀκούσεται καὶ ἀνωφελῶς, ἐπειδὴ τὸ τέλος ἐστὶν οὐ γνῶσις ἀλλὰ πρᾶξις. διαφέρει δʼ οὐδὲν νέος τὴν ἡλικίαν ἢ τὸ ἦθος νεαρός· οὐ γὰρ παρὰ τὸν χρόνον ἡ ἔλλειψις, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ κατὰ πάθος ζῆν καὶ διώκειν ἕκαστα. τοῖς γὰρ τοιούτοις ἀνόνητος ἡ γνῶσις γίνεται, καθάπερ τοῖς ἀκρατέσιν·…