ἱστορία (historia)
Short definition (LSJ): knowledge so obtained, information,
Full entry: Lexicon.
22 occurrences of this form in 14 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Library of History
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Meditations
- Histories
- Life of Pythagoras
- Against Apion, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 20
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 7
- The Jewish War, Book 1
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- Cratylus
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- On the Cleverness of Animals
Example passages
……τοῦ γένους τῶν ἀνθρώπων. ἐξ ἁπάντων δὲ συμπληρουμένης τῆς εὐδαιμονίας, ἀποδοτέον τῶν ἐπαίνων τὸ πρωτεῖον τῇ τούτων μάλιστʼ αἰτίᾳ ἱστορίᾳ.…
…καὶ μὴν καὶ οἱ θεοὶ συντάξεις τε πολλοῖς θεραπείας ἕνεκα δεδώκασιν τὰς ἐκ θηρίων, καὶ πλήρης γε ἡ ἱστορία, ὡς αὐτοὶ προσέταξάν τισι καὶ θύειν αὐτοῖς καὶ προσφέρεσθαι τῶν τυθέντων. ἐν δὲ τῇ καθόδῳ τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν οἱ ἐπὶ τὴν Δακεδαίμονα στρατεύοντες μετʼ Εὐρυσθένους καὶ Προκλέους ἐν ἀπορίᾳ τῶν ἀναγκαίων……
…Τίς ἐπὶ τούτου ἡ ἱστορία τῆς ἀληθείας; διαίρεσις εἰς τὸ ὑλικὸν καὶ εἰς τὸ αἰτιῶδες.…