Αἴσιος
appropriate, right
Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝20 Mar 2003Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] one which is proper, true.1
Menander [writes]: "but fortune did not breathe upon them rightly: for those doing wrong deliberately were not removed."2
And elsewhere: "and this would not seem right for a king/emperor."3
[Note] that Demosthenes joined in literary studies with Aision the Athenian.4
Menander [writes]: "but fortune did not breathe upon them rightly: for those doing wrong deliberately were not removed."2
And elsewhere: "and this would not seem right for a king/emperor."3
[Note] that Demosthenes joined in literary studies with Aision the Athenian.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Αἴσιος· ὁ καθήκων, ἀληθής. Μένανδρος· ἀλλ' οὐκ αἰσίως αὐτοῖς ἀπέπνευσεν ἡ τύχη· οἱ γὰρ ἐθελοκακοῦντες οὐχ ὑπεστάλησαν. καὶ αὖθις· καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ αἴσιον δόξαι ἂν βασιλεῖ. ὅτι Δημοσθένης συνεφιλολόγησεν Αἰσίωνι τῷ Ἀθηναίῳ.
Betacode
*ai)/sios: o( kaqh/kwn, a)lhqh/s. *me/nandros: a)ll' ou)k ai)si/ws au)toi=s a)pe/pneusen h( tu/xh: oi( ga\r e)qelokakou=ntes ou)x u(pesta/lhsan. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ tou=to ou)k ai)/sion do/cai a)\n basilei=. o(/ti *dhmosqe/nhs sunefilolo/ghsen *ai)si/wni tw=| *)aqhnai/w|.
Notes (3)
- [1] Here in the masculine. For the neuter see already alphaiota 321.↩
- 2Menander Protector fr. 32 Blockley (244-245). Adler associated this fragment with epsilon 304. ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 4Quoted from delta 454. (Repeated here simply because of the verbal echo in the name.)
References
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Linked from4 entries
- αι318Αἴσιμαappropriatenesses, suitabilities[Meaning] things that are seemly, beyond one's lot. But sometimes things that are proper, or ones that are good. And occasionally things that are fated.
- αι321Αἴσιονappropriateness[Meaning] that which is beautiful, fitting, just. Also [sc. attested is] u(perai/sion ["excessiveness"], [meaning] that which is beyond due measure, beyond propriety.
- δ454ΔημοσθένηςDemosthenesAn Athenian, son of Demosthenes and Cleobule; rhetor, of the deme Paeania. [He was] painstaking rather than naturally gifted, Hermippus says; and he lacked self-control with regard to pleasures (the same source says…
- ε304Ἐθελοκάκωςwilfully doing wrong[Meaning] intentionally choosing evil. Appian [writes]: "the army was unwilling to obey the general because of a grudge. They intentionally fought badly and fled, bandaging their bodies as if they had been wounded. They…
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Revision history7 revisions · last 27 Aug 2024
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- added bibliography and cross-reference n.2 — Ronald Allen
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- updated a reference — David Whitehead
- tweaks — David Whitehead
- added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝