Βλακεία
laziness, sloth
Translated by Jennifer Benedict10 Dec 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Βλακεία· ὑπεροψία, μωρία. οἱ στράτορες τριώβολον ἐλάμβανον βλακείας χάριν.
Betacode
*blakei/a: u(peroyi/a, mwri/a. oi( stra/tores triw/bolon e)la/mbanon blakei/as xa/rin.
Notes (2)
- See also beta 318 (and for cognates beta 314, beta 315, beta 316).↩
- 1cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 325, where the headword appears (web address 1). See also kappa 905. ↩
- 2From the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 140, where there is mention of Charon [Author, Myth] and his two-obol fee (web address 2). (At tau 997 "grooms" becomes "generals.) See also omicron 8, phi 235.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- β314Βλάξslack[Meaning] soft, sluggish; relaxed; or stupid.
- β316Βλακεύεταιgets lazy, is lazy[*blakeu/etai] and blakeu/ei: [meaning he/she/it] acts soft. Damascius [writes]: "and spurring on with his speech those who were lazy in action. For idleness he considered not of less account than any [other] evil, but…
- β318Βλακείαlaziness, slackness, sloth[Meaning] leisure, relaxation, looseness. "For he did not entrust matters to the slacknesses or cowardices of generals; rather, he himself presented himself as a general and took the initiative on the war."
- β319Βλακικῶςlazily, slacklyMeaning slowly. "How lazily you are serving."
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