κόσμος (kosmos)
Short definition (LSJ): good order, good behaviour, = κοσμιότης Phld.Mus.p.43 K.; discipline,
Full entry: Lexicon.
311 occurrences of this form in 80 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- Meditations
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- On the Creation of the World
- Discourses
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- About the Planting of Noah
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Isis and Osiris
- Sirach
- Wisdom of Solomon
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- Platonic Questions
- On the Mysteries
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- Timaeus
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Idylls
- On Fugitives
- On the Migration of Abraham
- Laws
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Cyropaedia
- The Eumenides
- 4 Maccabees
- Clouds
- Metaphysics
- Library of History
- Fragments
- Alcestis
- Electra
- Heracles
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- The Suppliants
- Iliad
- Life of Pythagoras
- Against Apion, Book 2
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 12
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 13
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
- The Jewish War, Book 6
- Against Flaccus
- On Drunkenness
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Posterity of Cain
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- On the Tilling of the Earth by Noah
- Alcibiades I
- Gorgias
- Letters
- Lysis
- Menexenus
- Philebus
- Republic
- Statesman
- Symposium
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Histories
- Letter to Marcella
- Memorabilia
Example passages
…Ἄξιον οὖν τοὺς ζητοῦντας εἰ ἄφθαρτος ὁ κόσμος, ἐπειδὴ καὶ „φθορὰ“ καὶ „κόσμος“ τῶν πολλαχῶς λεγομένων ἐστὶν ἑκάτερον, πρῶτον ἐρευνῆσαι περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων, ἵνα καθ’ ὃ σημαινόμενον νυνὶ [καὶ] τέτακται διαγνῶμεν· ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὅσα δηλοῦται πάντα……
……ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς ἐκ τῶν ὅλων ἀπονεμομένοις δυσχερανεῖς; ἀνανεωσάμενος τὸ διεζευγμένον τό· ἤτοι πρόνοια ἢ ἄτομοι, καὶ ἐξ ὅσων ἀπεδείχθη ὅτι ὁ κόσμος ὡσανεὶ πόλις. ἀλλὰ τὰ σωματικά σου ἅψεται ἔτι; ἐννοήσας ὅτι οὐκ ἐπιμίγνυται λείως ἢ τραχέως κινουμένῳ πνεύματι ἡ διάνοια, ἐπειδὰν ἅπαξ ἑαυτὴν ἀπολάβῃ καὶ γνωρίσῃ τὴν ἰδίαν ἐξουσίαν, καὶ λοιπὸν ὅσα……
……οἷον καὶ παράδειγμα εἰκόνος τούτου ὄντος καὶ δἰ ἐκεῖνον ὄντος καὶ ὑποστάντος ἀεί, τόνδε τὸν τρόπον: ἡ τοῦ νοῦ καὶ τοῦ ὄντος φύσις κόσμος ἐστὶν ὁ ἀληθινὸς καὶ πρῶτος, οὐ διαστὰς ἀφ̓ ἑαυτοῦ οὐδὲ ἀσθενὴς τῷ μερισμῷ οὐδὲ ἐλλιπὴς οὐδὲ τοῖς μέρεσι γενόμενος ἅτε ἑκάστου μὴ ἀποσπασθέντος τοῦ ὅλου: ἀλλ’ ἡ πᾶσα ζωὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶς νοῦς ἐν ἑνὶ……