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.
- βίᾳ μὲν οὐδὲ τῶν ἐλαχίστων δύναται κρατεῖν ἄνθρωποσ, ἐπινοίᾳ δὲ καὶ μεθόδῳ ὑπέζευξε μὲν ἀρότρῳ βοῦν πρὸσ τὴν ἐργασίαν τῆσ χώρασ, ἐχαλίνωσε δὲ τὸν ἵππον, ἐλέφαντι δὲ παρέστησεν ἐπιβάτην καὶ ξύλῳ τὴν ἀμέτρητον θάλασσαν διεπέρασεν. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 42:1)
- ἔτι μήν, ὃ πολλαπλασιαζόμενον τὴν ὠφέλειαν ἀπόλλυσιν, ἀχρηστότερον τοιοῦτον δὲ τὸ πῦρ, οἱο͂ν θηρίον παμφάγον καὶ δάπανον τῶν παρακειμένων, καὶ μεθόδῳ καὶ τέχνῃ μᾶλλον καὶ μετριότητι ἢ τῇ αὑτοῦ φύσει ὠφέλιμον· (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 61)
- ὁ μέντοι Ξεναγόρασ οὐ παρέργωσ, ἀλλὰ μεθόδῳ καί δι’ ὀργάνων εἰληφέναι δοκεῖ τὴν μέτρησιν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 15 7:2)
- ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ περὶ Λυκόφρονοσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν παρὰ σοὶ ὄντων λέγω καὶ πάλαι καὶ νῦν τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον, ὅτι πρὸσ τὸ διαλεχθῆναι καὶ φύσει καὶ τῇ μεθόδῳ τῶν λόγων πάμπολυ διαφέρεισ αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐδεὶσ αὐτῶν ἑκὼν ἐξελέγχεται, ὥσ τινεσ ὑπολαμβάνουσιν, ἀλλ’ ἄκοντεσ. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 31:1)
- ὅσα μὲν οὖν ἔχει φιλοσοφίαν μόνον θεωρητικήν, λεκτέον κατὰ τὸν ἐπιβάλλοντα καιρόν, ὅ τι περ οἰκεῖον ἦν τῇ μεθόδῳ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 6:1)
