ὀργανικός
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A serving as organs or instruments, instrumental, esp. of the several parts of the body, Arist.PA646b26: distd. from τὰ κινητικά, Id.GA742b10 ; τὰ ὀ. μέρη Id.EN1110a16, cf. PA661b29, GA739b14, al. ; αἱ ὀ. [ἀρεταί], of a slave, Id.Pol.1259b23 ; ὀ. καὶ μηχανικαὶ κατασκευαί Plu.2.718f; esp. of war-engines, ἡ ὀ. βία D.S.17.43 ; ὀ. κατασκευαί Onos.42.3 : metaph., ὁ ὀ. εἰς πλήθη λόγος speech which is brought to bear on the mob, Plu.Cat.Mi.4 ; of musicians, practical, opp. λογικοί (theoretical), Id.2.657e ; ἐποιεῖτο ἀκροάσεις λογικάς τε καὶ ὀ. Supp.Epigr.2.184.6 (Tanagra, ii B.C.) ; so of surgeons, τῶν ὀ. οἱ διασημότεροι PMed.Lond.155.2.13 ; ἡ ὀ. (sc. τέχνη) Plu.Marc.14 ; but ὀργανικός, = λογικός, logical, Elias in Porph.115.17. Adv. -κῶς by way of instruments, Arist.EN1099b28; -κώτερον making more use of instruments, Simp.in Cael.504.33 ; τὸ κινοῦν ὀ. Arist.de An.433b21.
