μέθοδος
Second declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μέθοδος
Structure:
μεθοδ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- following after, pursuit
- pursuit of knowledge, investigation, inquiry; hence, treatise, mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, plan
- doctrine
- (rhetoric) means, means of recognizing
- mode of treating the subject-matter
Declension
Second declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν, κακῶσ, τοὺσ δὲ νοῦν ἔχοντασ ὁ Ξενοφῶν καὶ ὠφελεῖσθαί φησιν ἀπὸ τῶν διαφερομένων, ἀπιστεῖν μὲν οὐ χρή, ζητεῖν δὲ μέθοδον καὶ τέχνην δι’ ἧσ τοῦτο περιέσται τὸ καλὸν οἷσ χωρὶσ ἐχθροῦ ζῆν ἀδύνατόν ἐστιν. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 2 3:1)
- διαφέρουσι δ’ οἱ λόγοι περὶ ἑκάστην μέθοδον, οἵ τε φιλοσόφωσ λεγόμενοι καὶ μὴ φιλοσόφωσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 69:1)
- φιλόσοφον γὰρ τὸ τοιοῦτον περὶ ἑκάστην μέθοδον. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 69:3)
- παντοδαπῶν γάρ, ὡσ εἰκόσ, παθῶν ἐν ὄχλῳ τοσαύτην τὸ μέγεθοσ ἀρχὴν ἔχοντι φυομένων, μόνοσ ἐμμελῶσ ἕκαστα διαχειρίσασθαι πεφυκώσ, μάλιστα δ’ ἐλπίσι καὶ φόβοισ ὥσπερ οἰάξι προσστέλλων τὸ θρασυνόμενον αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ δύσθυμον ἀνιεὶσ καὶ παραμυθούμενοσ, ἔδειξε τὴν ῥητορικὴν κατὰ Πλάτωνα ψυχαγωγίαν οὖσαν καὶ μέγιστον ἔργον αὐτῆσ τὴν περὶ τὰ ἤθη καὶ πάθη μέθοδον, ὥσπερ τινὰσ τόνουσ καὶ φθόγγουσ ψυχῆσ μάλ’ ἐμμελοῦσ ἁφῆσ καὶ κρούσεωσ δεομένουσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 15 4:1)
- ἔδωκε προσποιούμενοσ ἀκηκοέναι καὶ θαυμάζειν τὴν μέθοδον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 8 2:1)
