εἱμαρμένη (heimarmene)
No dictionary entry for this form in LSJ or Abbott-Smith, so no definition is given here — usage data below, no definition invented.
19 occurrences of this form in 13 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- Meditations
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18
- The Jewish War, Book 2
- The Jewish War, Book 4
- The Jewish War, Book 6
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Phaedo
- Protagoras
- Statesman
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
Example passages
……πάντων εἰλημμένων τῶν αἰτίων οὐκ ἔστιν ἕκαστον μὴ οὐ γίγνεσθαι: οὐδὲν γὰρ ἔτι τὸ κωλῦσον ἢ ἄλλως γενέσθαι ποιῆσον, εἰ πάντα εἴληπται ἐν τῇ εἱμαρμένῃ. τοιαῦτα δὲ ὄντα ὡς ἀπὸ μιᾶς ἀρχῆς ὡρμημένα ἡμῖν οὐδὲν καταλείψει, ἢ φέρεσθαι ὅπῃ ἂν ἐκεῖνα ὠθῇ. αἵ τε γὰρ φαντασίαι τοῖς προηγησαμένοις αἵ τε ὁρμαὶ κατὰ ταύτας ἔσονται, ὄνομά τε μόνον τὸ ἐφ̓ ἡμῖν……
…κοινὴν φύσιν καὶ κατὰ τὸν ἐκείνης λόγον. ὅτι δʼ ἡ κοινὴ φύσις καὶ ὁ κοινὸς τῆς φύσεως λόγος εἱμαρμένη καὶ πρόνοια καὶ Ζεύς ἐστιν, οὐδὲ τοὺς ἀντίποδας λέληθε· πανταχοῦ γὰρ ταῦτα θρυλεῖται ὑπʼ αὐτῶν· καὶ τὸ Διὸς δʼ ἐτελείετο βουλή, τὸν Ὅμηρον εἰρηκέναι φησὶν ὀρθῶς, ἐπὶ τὴν εἱμαρμένην ἀναφέροντα καὶ……
……σωφροσύνης, ἀνδρείας καὶ καθάπαξ τοῦ ἀρκεῖσθαι ἑαυτῇ τὴν διάνοιάν σου, ἐν οἷς κατὰ τὸν λόγον τὸν ὀρθὸν πράσσοντά σε παρέχεται, καὶ τῇ εἱμαρμένῃ ἐν τοῖς ἀπροαιρέτως ἀπονεμομένοις· εἰ τούτου, φημί, κρεῖττόν τι ὁρᾷς, ἐπʼ ἐκεῖνο ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ψυχῆς τραπόμενος τοῦ ἀρίστου εὑρισκομένου ἀπόλαυε.…