Ἀντεύφρασμα

joy's antithesis

Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 May 2001Vetting: high3 revisions

9 words

[Meaning] the good [which is the] opposite of joyfulness.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀντεύφρασμα· τὸ ἐναντίον τῇ εὐφροσύνῃ ἀγαθόν.

Betacode

*)anteu/frasma: to\ e)nanti/on th=| eu)frosu/nh| a)gaqo/n.

Same or very similar entry in Photius and elsewhere. Since the headword, a single (neuter) noun in the Greek, is quoted from Agathon (fr. 30 Nauck), the final word here, transmitted as a)gaqo/n or a)gaw=n, might actually be his name: thus the gloss would read 'what Agathon calls the opposite of joyfulness'.