Λύπη
pain, distress, vexation
Translated by Marcelo Boeri8 Nov 2002Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
And the plural [is] ai( lu=pai .
[Pain is] an irrational contraction of the soul.1 Hence the excellent person must not feel pain.2 And the types of it [are] spite, envy, jealousy, worry, annoyance, foolishness, anguish, confusion.3
"Why does this vex me if I, nominally dead, am in fact alive, and I am going to get fame with it? It seems to me that no word accompanied by advantage is bad."4
[Pain is] an irrational contraction of the soul.1 Hence the excellent person must not feel pain.2 And the types of it [are] spite, envy, jealousy, worry, annoyance, foolishness, anguish, confusion.3
"Why does this vex me if I, nominally dead, am in fact alive, and I am going to get fame with it? It seems to me that no word accompanied by advantage is bad."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λύπη· καὶ τὸ πληθυντικὸν αἱ λῦπαι. συστολὴ ἄλογος ψυχῆς. διὸ οὐ λυπηθήσεσθαι τὸν σπουδαῖον δεῖ. εἴδη δὲ αὐτῆς φθόνος, ζῆλος, ζηλοτυπία, ἄχθος, ἐνόχλησις, ἄνοια, ὀδύνη, σύγχυσις. τί γάρ με λυπεῖ τοῦθ' ὅταν λόγῳ θανὼν ἔργοισι σωθῶ κἀξενέγκωμαι κλέος; δοκῶ μὲν ὡς οὐδὲν ῥῆμα σὺν κέρδει κακόν.
Betacode
*lu/ph: kai\ to\ plhquntiko\n ai( lu=pai. sustolh\ a)/logos yuxh=s. dio\ ou) luphqh/sesqai to\n spoudai=on dei=. ei)/dh de\ au)th=s fqo/nos, zh=los, zhlotupi/a, a)/xqos, e)no/xlhsis, a)/noia, o)du/nh, su/gxusis. ti/ ga/r me lupei= tou=q' o(/tan lo/gw| qanw\n e)/rgoisi swqw= ka)cene/gkwmai kle/os; dokw= me\n w(s ou)de\n r(h=ma su\n ke/rdei kako/n.
Notes (4)
- 1This is a Stoic definition of pain, slightly modified (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.90, ed. Wachsmuth). ↩
- 2These words belong to the Stoic Apollodorus (see Diogenes Laertius 7. 118). The excellent person is the sage who, according to the Stoics, is free of passions or emotional states (
a)paqh/s ; see Diogenes Laertius 7.117) in being completely rational and having his impulses in accord with right reason. So, insofar as pain is an irrational contraction of the soul, the sage person cannot feel pain. ↩ - 3With the exception of foolishness and confusion, these are, according to the Stoics, kinds of pain (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.91, ed. Wachsmuth). ↩
- 4Sophocles, Electra 59-61; cf. tau 557. ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 24 Apr 2013
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- added x-ref — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, modified translation, added keyword — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri