Νεμεσητικός
disposed to indignation, indignant
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Translation
The opposite of jealous [fqonero/s ]. For the jealous man is grieved at the prosperity of the good, since jealousy [fqo/nos ] is like this. But the indignant man [nemeshtiko/s ] is one who is grieved at the prosperity of the evil, for such is indignation [ne/mesis ]. So the indignant man is not jealous. The problem is one of definition.1
In envy [or: emulation] of the orators he says this; for when someone defines that the man who is called indignant is also jealous, since he himself blames certain people, we reply by defining that the indignant man is not such [sc. jealous], if indeed he rightly blames certain people, but he who blames a person undeserving [of blame]: for this man is [properly called] jealous.2
In envy [or: emulation] of the orators he says this; for when someone defines that the man who is called indignant is also jealous, since he himself blames certain people, we reply by defining that the indignant man is not such [sc. jealous], if indeed he rightly blames certain people, but he who blames a person undeserving [of blame]: for this man is [properly called] jealous.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεμεσητικός· ὁ ἐναντίος τῷ φθονερῷ. ὁ μὲν γὰρ φθονερὸς λυπεῖται ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν καλῶν εὐπραγίαις, ἐπεὶ καὶ ὁ φθόνος τοιοῦτον, νεμεσητικὸς δὲ ὁ λυπούμενος ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν κακῶν εὐπραγίαις· τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἡ νέμεσις. ὥστε ὁ νεμεσητικὸς οὐ φθονερός. ἔστι δὲ τὸ πρόβλημα ὁρικόν. ζήλῳ ῥητόρων τοῦτο λέγει· ὁριζομένου γάρ τινος φθονερὸν εἶναι καὶ τὸν λεγόμενον νεμεσητικόν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτὸς μέμφεταί τινας, ἀνθοριζόμεθα, οὐ τὸν νεμεσητικὸν τοιοῦτον εἶναι, εἴπερ ὀρθῶς τινας μέμφεται, ἀλλὰ τὸν μὴ δέοντα μεμφόμενον· αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστι φθονερός.
Betacode
*nemeshtiko/s: o( e)nanti/os tw=| fqonerw=|. o( me\n ga\r fqonero\s lupei=tai e)pi\ tai=s tw=n kalw=n eu)pragi/ais, e)pei\ kai\ o( fqo/nos toiou=ton, nemeshtiko\s de\ o( lupou/menos e)pi\ tai=s tw=n kakw=n eu)pragi/ais: toiou=ton ga\r h( ne/mesis. w(/ste o( nemeshtiko\s ou) fqonero/s. e)/sti de\ to\ pro/blhma o(riko/n. zh/lw| r(hto/rwn tou=to le/gei: o(rizome/nou ga/r tinos fqonero\n ei)=nai kai\ to\n lego/menon nemeshtiko/n, e)peidh\ kai\ au)to\s me/mfetai/ tinas, a)nqorizo/meqa, ou) to\n nemeshtiko\n toiou=ton ei)=nai, ei)/per o)rqw=s tinas me/mfetai, a)lla\ to\n mh\ de/onta memfo/menon: au)to\s ga/r e)sti fqonero/s.
Notes (2)
- 1Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 142.10-18. On
ne/mesis see nu 163 and related entries; onfqo/nos (translated here as jealousy, but often meaning spite), see phi 508, phi 509, phi 510. ↩ - 2This supplementary material (of indeterminable origin) is lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFV and added in the margin of ms M. ↩
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