φύσις (physis)
Short definition (LSJ): origin, φ. οὐδενός ἐστιν ἁπάντων θνητῶν οὐδὲ . . τελευτή
Full entry: Lexicon.
691 occurrences of this form in 99 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 V-VI
- Metaphysics
- Meditations
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- Discourses
- Laws
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Republic
- Nicomachean Ethics
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- Library of History
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- Timaeus
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- Histories
- On the Mysteries
- On the Posterity of Cain
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- Symposium
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- On Fugitives
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Isis and Osiris
- Fragments
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Tilling of the Earth by Noah
- Epinomis
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- The Jewish War, Book 7
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the Migration of Abraham
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- Phaedrus
- Sophist
- On the Education of Children
- Platonic Questions
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
- 4 Maccabees
- On the Crown
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Giants
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Gorgias
- Parmenides
- Phaedo
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Thesmophoriazusae
- Orestes
- Histories (Books 1–2)
- Life of Pythagoras
- About the Planting of Noah
- On Drunkenness
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Cratylus
- Critias
- Philebus
- Statesman
- Life of Pythagoras
- Oedipus at Colonus
- The Suppliants
- Frogs
- Lysistrata
- Philippic 2
- Philippic 3
- Enchiridion
- Electra
- Hecuba
- Ion
- Histories (Books 3–9)
- Antidosis
- Panegyricus
- Against Apion, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 5
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 9
- Against Flaccus
- On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants
- Letters
- Theaetetus
- Consolation to His Wife
- On Fortune
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- Letter to Marcella
- Oedipus Rex
- Philoctetes
- Symposium
Example passages
……ἅ τε ἐν ἀέρι ἅ τε ἐν οὐρανῷ ἄστρα θεῖα, αὐτὴ δὲ ἥλιον, αὐτὴ δὲ τὸν μέγαν τοῦτον οὐρανόν, καὶ αὐτὴ ἐκόσμησεν, αὐτὴ δὲ ἐν τάξει περιάγει φύσις οὖσα ἑτέρα ὧν κοσμεῖ καὶ ὧν κινεῖ καὶ ἃ ζῆν ποιεῖ: καὶ τούτων ἀνάγκη εἶναι τιμιωτέραν, γιγνομένων τούτων καὶ φθειρομένων, ὅταν αὐτὰ ψυχὴ ἀπολείπῃ ἣ χορηγεῖ τὸ ζῆν, αὐτὴ δὲ οὖσα ἀεὶ τῷ μὴ ἀπολείπειν……
……οὖσαν ἐλευθέραν τῶν ἐπιστημῶν· μόνη γὰρ αὕτη αὑτῆς ἕνεκέν ἐστιν. διὸ καὶ δικαίως ἂν οὐκ ἀνθρωπίνη νομίζοιτο αὐτῆς ἡ κτῆσις· πολλαχῇ γὰρ ἡ φύσις δούλη τῶν…
……πάντα ἐκεῖθεν ῥεῖ· πρόσεστι δὲ τὸ ἀναγκαῖον καὶ τὸ τῷ ὅλῳ κόσμῳ συμφέρον, οὗ μέρος εἶ. παντὶ δὲ φύσεως μέρει ἀγαθόν, ὃ φέρει ἡ τοῦ ὅλου φύσις καὶ ὃ ἐκείνης ἐστὶ σωστικόν. σῴζουσι δὲ κόσμον, ὥσπερ αἱ τῶν στοιχείων, οὕτως καὶ αἱ τῶν συγκριμάτων μεταβολαί. ταῦτά σοι ἀρκείτω καὶ δόγματα ἔστω. τὴν δὲ τῶν βιβλίων δίψαν ῥῖψον, ἵνα μὴ γογγύζων……
Subjects
Christology & the Trinity, Philosophy of nature