Ἀπειροκαλία
ignorance of the beautiful, vulgar extravagance
Translated by Catharine Roth14 Jul 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] immoderation of [= in] the beautiful.1
"But the Romans already having gained dominance were excited to vulgar extravagance, and he stretched their forces out through his Libyan territory."2
And elsewhere: "but if not too vulgarly extravagant, as [someone] repeating things [already] much-spoken-of."3
"But the Romans already having gained dominance were excited to vulgar extravagance, and he stretched their forces out through his Libyan territory."2
And elsewhere: "but if not too vulgarly extravagant, as [someone] repeating things [already] much-spoken-of."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀπειροκαλία· ἀμετρία τοῦ καλοῦ. οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι ἤδη κεκρατηκότες ἐπηρμένοι ἦσαν εἰς ἀπειροκαλίαν, καὶ τὰς σφῶν αὐτῶν ἐξέτεινε δυνάμεις ἀνὰ τὴν ἐκείνου Λιβύην. καὶ αὖθις· ἀλλ' εἰ μὴ λίαν ἀπειρόκαλος, ὡς διαβεβοημένα ἐπιδιηγούμενος.
Betacode
*)apeirokali/a: a)metri/a tou= kalou=. oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi h)/dh kekrathko/tes e)phrme/noi h)=san ei)s a)peirokali/an, kai\ ta\s sfw=n au)tw=n e)ce/teine duna/meis a)na\ th\n e)kei/nou *libu/hn. kai\ au)=qis: a)ll' ei) mh\ li/an a)peiro/kalos, w(s diabebohme/na e)pidihgou/menos.
Notes (3)
- 1Interpreting
a)peiro- as "unlimited" instead of "inexperienced." (cf. alpha 3133). ↩ - 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩
- 3Quotation tentatively attributed by Adler to Damascius, and admitted as such into Zintzen's edition of that author (Life of Isidore fr. 373). However, C. Theodoridis in his Photius edition (vol.II p.XCVI) identifies the passage as one in Synesius, Letter 127 (p.217.10-11 Garzya). In the translation of A. Fitzgerald, Synesius says, "I shall not be so tactless as to spin out at great length the story which has been proclaimed ..."
a)lla\ mh\ li/an a)peiro/kalos w)= ktl. ↩
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Revision history8 revisions · last 23 Apr 2023
- expanded note 3 — Catharine Roth
- coding; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- betacode — Catharine Roth
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- expanded and modified n.3 — David Whitehead
- expanded note, added keyword — Catharine Roth
- added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth