Μέγεθος
size
Translated by Nick Nicholas4 May 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Note] that size [is] of two kinds. A common perception. "By analogy [this] can be understood in application to both smell and taste; for these are also capable of perceiving their own kind of size, the sense of smell though odours, and the sense of taste through juices — although customary usage does not know it by the name 'size'".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μέγεθος· ὅτι διττὸν τὸ μέγεθος. κοινὴ αἴσθησις. δύναται δὲ κατὰ ἀναλογίαν καὶ ἐπὶ ὀσφρήσεως λαμβάνεσθαι καὶ γεύσεως· εἰσὶ γὰρ καὶ αὗται τοῦ οἰκείου μεγέθους ἀντιληπτικαί, ἡ μὲν τοῦ ἐν ὀσμαῖς, ἡ δὲ τοῦ ἐν χυμοῖς· εἰ καὶ μὴ οἶδεν ἡ συνήθεια τὸ τοῦ μεγέθους ὄνομα.
Betacode
*me/geqos: o(/ti ditto\n to\ me/geqos. koinh\ ai)/sqhsis. du/natai de\ kata\ a)nalogi/an kai\ e)pi\ o)sfrh/sews lamba/nesqai kai\ geu/sews: ei)si\ ga\r kai\ au(=tai tou= oi)kei/ou mege/qous a)ntilhptikai/, h( me\n tou= e)n o)smai=s, h( de\ tou= e)n xumoi=s: ei) kai\ mh\ oi)=den h( sunh/qeia to\ tou= mege/qous o)/noma.
Notes (1)
- 1John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 315.13-16 Hayduck -- commenting here on de anima 418a17 (which argues that what the different senses perceive are consistent with each other). The Suda's paraphrase simplifies this into "two kinds of size": presumably, that directly sensed by touch and sight, and the perception consistent with size through smell and taste — but all senses perceive the same thing in common. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Jul 2020
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas