Λογισμός
calculation, account
Translated by Nick Nicholas21 Jun 2009Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] payment.
"He plundered [them] with no sense of propriety, claiming that he was exacting accounts for what they had done in their lives."1
Alternatively, calculation/account is a name for scrutiny.2
"And it was supposed that the voyage would take place through a calculation of two months in advance."3 Meaning by a reckoning [thereof].
[For] calculation/account also [means] reckoning.
"He made a calculation of the crowd."4
And Euripides [writes]: "for justice has no reason for two to argue." That is, contending has no excuse.5
"He plundered [them] with no sense of propriety, claiming that he was exacting accounts for what they had done in their lives."1
Alternatively, calculation/account is a name for scrutiny.2
"And it was supposed that the voyage would take place through a calculation of two months in advance."3 Meaning by a reckoning [thereof].
[For] calculation/account also [means] reckoning.
"He made a calculation of the crowd."4
And Euripides [writes]: "for justice has no reason for two to argue." That is, contending has no excuse.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λογισμός· ἡ ἔκτισις. οὐδενὶ κόσμῳ ἐληΐσατο λογισμοὺς δῆθεν τῶν βεβιωμένων πραττόμενος. ἢ ἡ ἐξέτασις λέγεται λογισμός. ὁ δὲ πλοῦς λογισμῷ τοῦ πρόσω δυοῖν μηνοῖν ξυμβήσεσθαι εἰκασθείς. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπαριθμήσει. Λογισμὸς καὶ ἡ ἀπαρίθμησις. ὁ δὲ λογισμὸν τοῦ πλήθους ἐποιήσατο. καὶ Εὐριπίδης· τὸ γὰρ δίκαιον οὐκ ἔχει λόγον δυοῖν ἐρίζειν. τουτέστιν οὐκ ἔχει πρόφασιν τὸ φιλονεικεῖν.
Betacode
*logismo/s: h( e)/ktisis. ou)deni\ ko/smw| e)lhi/+sato logismou\s dh=qen tw=n bebiwme/nwn pratto/menos. h)\ h( e)ce/tasis le/getai logismo/s. o( de\ plou=s logismw=| tou= pro/sw duoi=n mhnoi=n cumbh/sesqai ei)kasqei/s. a)nti\ tou= a)pariqmh/sei. *logismo\s kai\ h( a)pari/qmhsis. o( de\ logismo\n tou= plh/qous e)poih/sato. kai\ *eu)ripi/dhs: to\ ga\r di/kaion ou)k e)/xei lo/gon duoi=n e)ri/zein. toute/stin ou)k e)/xei pro/fasin to\ filoneikei=n.
Notes (5)
- For this headword in another sense see lambda 649.
- 1Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as an approximation of Procopius, Secret History 5.4 (web address 1), on Belisarius in Italy (544-549); cf. Kaldellis (23). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCIV. Justinian (cf. iota 446) had provided no financial support for Belisarius's second Italian campaign. While carefully avoiding any engagement with Totila (cf. tau 879), the ill-equipped Byzantine general plundered Ravenna and Sicily on the pretext that it was retribution for their past support of the Goths. On Belisarius, see generally beta 233. ↩
- 2Attributed by Wentzel to a rhetorical source (so Adler). ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 4Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 5In fact Sophocles: Chrysothemis in Electra 466-467 (with comment from the scholia there). The connection of this passage to the foregoing is indirect: the noun used is
lo/gos (cf. LSJ s.v., III.2), notlogismo/s . ↩
References
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 18 Jun 2024
- expanded n.1; added bibliography, cross-references, and link — Ronald Allen
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
- cosmeticule — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas