Διωλύγιον
enormous
Translated by Catharine Roth18 Feb 2004Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning something] big.1
And [there is] a proverb:*diwlu/gion kako/n ["enormous evil"], referring to those who undertake something big and terrible. For diwlu/gion is something big and extending far. "Thus an enormous nonsense ... you fling:" Plato [says this].2
And Damascius [writes]: "would this not seem to be an enormous nonsense, and justly not [merely] idle talk like that of old women, but exceeding the greatest babble?"3
And [there is] a proverb:
And Damascius [writes]: "would this not seem to be an enormous nonsense, and justly not [merely] idle talk like that of old women, but exceeding the greatest babble?"3