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Ἐντελής · complete, perfect, whole (ε 1457) · Suda

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Near ε1457

ε1453more complete, rather complete
ε1454actuality, complete reality, entelechy
ε1455in post
ε1456complete
ε1457complete, perfect, whole
ε1458I give orders to, I instruct
ε1459full-pay
ε1460pith
ε1461intestine

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε1457

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Ἐντελής

complete, perfect, whole

Translated by Catharine Roth26 May 2007Vetting: high2 revisions

definition
ethics
historiography
history
military affairs

2 notes · 41 words

Translation

"If anyone thinks that he will be complete without [sc. the assistance of] nature, he will continue to be so much the more incomplete and imperfect the greater skill he has".¹ ['complete'] meaning perfect.²
"Two whole Roman armies [...] were encamped."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐντελής· ὅστις οἴεται ἄνευ φύσεως ἐντελὴς ἔσεσθαι, ἀτελὴς καὶ ἀπέραντος τόσῳ μᾶλλον, ὅσῳ πλείονα ἕξιν ἔχει, διατελέσει. ἀντὶ τοῦ τέλειος. ἐντελῆ στρατόπεδα ἐκάθητο δύο Ῥωμαϊκά.

Betacode

*)entelh/s: o(/stis oi)/etai a)/neu fu/sews e)ntelh\s e)/sesqai, a)telh\s kai\ a)pe/rantos to/sw| ma=llon, o(/sw| plei/ona e(/cin e)/xei, diatele/sei. a)nti\ tou= te/leios. e)ntelh= strato/peda e)ka/qhto du/o *(rwmai+ka/.

Notes (2)

[1] Artemidorus 1.12.
2cf. Hesychius s.v. e)ntelw=s. See also epsilon 1456. ↩
3Polybius 8.1.4, paraphrased and abridged.

Linked from1 entry

ε1456Ἐντελεῖςcomplete[Meaning] they who are ruling and they who have ruled. "[They] having prepared complete sets of armor." That is, [ones] suitable for a ruler. Appian [writes]: "when a naval battle occurred and an outcry from all…

Neighbouring entries

ε1455Ἐν τέλειin post ε1456Ἐντελεῖςcomplete ε1457Ἐντελήςcomplete, perfect, whole ε1458ἘντέλλομαιI give orders to, I instruct ε1459Ἐντελόμισθοςfull-pay

Revision history2 revisions · last 29 Aug 2012

29 Aug 2012cosmetics — David Whitehead
27 May 2007augmented notes and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
26 May 2007Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐντελής (Adler number epsilon 1457), trans. Catharine Roth, 26 May 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1457

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗