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Definition of Stagira
1. Noun. An ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagira
Literary usage of Stagira
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"... and nine stigmata; they live in the trunks and roots of apple trees, willows,
and oaks, and are sometimes injurious. STAG IKH Mi. See HOUND. Stagira ..."
2. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"His body is said to have been taken to Stagira.3 His last will is preserved to us,4
... the most illustrious citizen but also the re-founder of Stagira (cf. ..."
3. The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and Gazetteer by Talbot Wilson Chambers, Frank Hugh Foster, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1889)
"The philosophy of Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, who was b. at Stagira, in
Thrace, 384 uc, whence his surname, ..."
4. The Cottage Cyclopedia of History and Biography: A Copious Dictionary of by Edward M. Pierce (1867)
"... bom at Stagira, a city of Thrace, 384 BC He died 322 Bc, having taken poison
to avoid the persecution of his enemies. He enjoyed the instructions of ..."
5. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"... only as the author of a history of pharmacology.4 Of a theological work of
Hipparchus of Stagira only the title has come down to us.5 Of ..."
6. The Politics and Economics of Aristotle by Aristotle, John Gillies (1853)
"Through his influence with Alexander the Great, Stagira was rebuilt;6 both its
... He ascribes the rebuilding of Stagira to Aristotle's influence with ..."
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