Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: spanis	2: diaporeô	3: stenochôria	4: amêchanaô	5: endeia
Latin	1: aerumna	2: angustiae	3: necessitudo	4: egeo	5: paupertas
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Words That Regularly Appear With aporia
In Perseus Texts:	echis	cheô	dio	echô	polus
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aporia, Ion. -iê, hê, (aporos) being aporos: hence,

I. of places, difficulty of passing, Xen. Anab. 5.6.10.

II. of things, difficulty, straits, in sg. and pl., es aporiên pollên apigmenos, apeilêmenos, Hdt. 1.79, au=Hdt. 2.141; en aporiêi or en apooiiêisi echesthai, IDEM=Hdt. 9.98, au=Hdt. 4.131, cf. Antiph. 5.66; aporiêisin eneicheto Hdt. 1.190; aporiên erôtêthenti paraschein Hp.VM13, cf. Lys. 19.1; aporia telethei, c. inf., Pind. N. 7.105, cf. Plat. Laws 788c; eis phreata kai pasan a. empiptôn IDEM=Plat. Theaet. 174c: c. gen. rei, a. tou mê ginôskein Hp.Morb.Sacr.1; a. tou mê hêsuchazein impossibility of keeping quiet, Thuc. 2.49; a. tês prosormiseôs IDEM=Thuc. 4.10; a. tou anakathairesthai Plat. Laws 678d.

2. not providing a thing, IDEM=Plat. Meno 78e.

2. being at a loss, embarrassment, perplexity, a. tou dustuchein Eur. Ion 971, cf. Thuc. 7.44,au=Thuc. 7.75=lr, etc.; a. en tôi logôi sumbasa Aeschin. 2.41; distress, discomfort, in illness, Hp.Epid.5.42, Aret.SA2.5: hence metaph., ôdinousi kai aporias empimplantai Plat. Theaet. 151a.

3. a. tinos lack of a person or thing, sophôn andrôn Aristoph. Frogs 806; trophês, chrêmatôn, etc., Thuc. 1.11, au=Thuc. 7.48; apôllunto . . aporiai tou therapeuontos for want of one to attend to them, IDEM=Thuc. 2.51; a. logôn Plat. Apol. 38d; a. ploiôn shortage of ships, CPHerm.6.10: abs., need, poverty, Thuc. 1.123; a. kai penia Andoc. 1.144; opp. euporia, Aristot. Pol. 1279b27: in pl., Dem. 19.146.