Διατριβή
school, amusement, pastime
Translated by Marcelo Boeri4 Dec 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] place where some people learn. Or a season [or: opportunity] according to which we turn back on something. Or a philosophical discourse.1
It also means pursuit and business, way of living, mode of life, purpose out of which we are about to spend time regarding [certain] matters. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "if no particular amusement [diatribh/ ] shall appear in life".2
Also [it means] leisure.
"But the pastime and the leisureliness of the approach became voluntary for him, both for the sake of what is undisciplined and for the sake of forethought toward what is going to result."3
It also means pursuit and business, way of living, mode of life, purpose out of which we are about to spend time regarding [certain] matters. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "if no particular amusement [
Also [it means] leisure.
"But the pastime and the leisureliness of the approach became voluntary for him, both for the sake of what is undisciplined and for the sake of forethought toward what is going to result."3