Ἀλογία
confusion, irrationality, speechlessness
Translated by Jennifer Benedict30 May 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] disorder.
"After all crying out together they remained, as it were, dumbfounded. But once the word had quickly spread into the multitude there was no longer confusion; rather, some rushed at the envoys, as if all the blame for these things was theirs, while others attacked the remainder of the Italians, venting their rage on them, and others [ran] to the city gates."1
Alogistia ["thoughtlessness"] is also a word in Polybius.2
"After all crying out together they remained, as it were, dumbfounded. But once the word had quickly spread into the multitude there was no longer confusion; rather, some rushed at the envoys, as if all the blame for these things was theirs, while others attacked the remainder of the Italians, venting their rage on them, and others [ran] to the city gates."1
Alogistia ["thoughtlessness"] is also a word in Polybius.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀλογία· ἀταξία. οἱ δὲ πάντες ἅμα ἀνακεκραγότες ἐξαυτῆς οἱονεὶ παρεληλύθεισαν. ταχὺ δὲ τοῦ λόγου διαδοθέντος εἰς τὸ πλῆθος, οὐκέτι συνέβαινε γίνεσθαι τὴν ἀλογίαν, ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ τοὺς πρεσβευτὰς ὥρμων, ὡς αἰτίους σφίσι τῶν κακῶν ὄντας τούτων, οἱ δὲ ἐπὶ τοὺς κατειλημμένους τῶν Ἰταλικῶν καὶ εἰς τούτους ἀπερείσαντες τὸν θυμὸν, οἱ δὲ πρὸς τὰς πύλας τῆς πόλεως. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Ἀλογιστία παρὰ Πολυβίῳ.
Betacode
*)alogi/a: a)taci/a. oi( de\ pa/ntes a(/ma a)nakekrago/tes e)cauth=s oi(onei\ parelhlu/qeisan. taxu\ de\ tou= lo/gou diadoqe/ntos ei)s to\ plh=qos, ou)ke/ti sune/baine gi/nesqai th\n a)logi/an, a)ll' oi( me\n e)pi\ tou\s presbeuta\s w(/rmwn, w(s ai)ti/ous sfi/si tw=n kakw=n o)/ntas tou/twn, oi( de\ e)pi\ tou\s kateilhmme/nous tw=n *)italikw=n kai\ ei)s tou/tous a)perei/santes to\n qumo\n, oi( de\ pro\s ta\s pu/las th=s po/lews. le/getai de\ kai\ *)alogisti/a para\ *polubi/w|.
Notes (2)
- Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.↩
For this noun see also alpha 1308, alpha 1310.- 1Polybius 36.7.3-5 (preserved only here in the Suda). ↩
- 2See alpha 1312.
Linked from4 entries
- α1307Ἀλογῆσαιto pay no regard to[Meaning] to give no heed to, to miscalculate. Also [sc. attested is] a)logh/sei ["he/she/it will pay no regard to"]; [used] with a genitive. [Meaning he/she/it] will have no care for, will not mind.
- α1308Ἀλογίαdisregard[Meaning] unconcern. Herodotus [writes]: "the scout discovered the Lacedaemonians combing [their hair] and was amazed, to have encountered such great disregard. And Xerxes, hearing these things, had no means of gauging…
- α1310Ἀλογίαabsurdity[Meaning] the [sc. phenomenon of] having no rationale, but acting irrationally. Thus Demosthenes and Plato [sc. use the word].
- α1312Ἀλογιστίαthoughtlessness[sc. The term occurs] in Polybius. "More began to resist, with some of them saying that running risks and dicing with death was thoughtlessness, others that it was insanity." And again: "but the human race makes…
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- Revised — David Whitehead
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- modified note — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict