Φευκτέον
[we] must escape; [we] must avoid
Translated by Marcelo Boeri5 Jan 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Used] with an accusative. Adverb expressing obligation.
Plato says: "we must escape from here. So what is [such an] escape? Becoming like a god. That [is], if we could become just and holy with wisdom;"1 and in general [doing so] in virtue, [albeit] not in accordance with the political virtues, but in accordance with the larger [ones] which use the same names.
Plato says: "we must escape from here. So what is [such an] escape? Becoming like a god. That [is], if we could become just and holy with wisdom;"1 and in general [doing so] in virtue, [albeit] not in accordance with the political virtues, but in accordance with the larger [ones] which use the same names.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φευκτέον· αἰτιατικῇ. ἐπίρρημα θετικόν. Πλάτων φησί· φευκτέον ἐνθένδε. τίς οὖν ἡ φυγή; θεῷ ὁμοίωσις. τοῦτο δέ, εἰ δίκαιοι καὶ ὅσιοι μετὰ φρονήσεως γενοίμεθα· καὶ ὅλως ἐν ἀρετῇ, οὐ κατὰ τὰς πολιτικὰς ἀρετάς, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰς μείζους, τῶν αὐτῶν ὀνομάτων χρωμένας.
Betacode
*feukte/on: ai)tiatikh=|. e)pi/rrhma qetiko/n. *pla/twn fhsi/: feukte/on e)nqe/nde. ti/s ou)=n h( fugh/; qew=| o(moi/wsis. tou=to de/, ei) di/kaioi kai\ o(/sioi meta\ fronh/sews genoi/meqa: kai\ o(/lws e)n a)reth=|, ou) kata\ ta\s politika\s a)reta/s, a)lla\ kata\ ta\s mei/zous, tw=n au)tw=n o)noma/twn xrwme/nas.
Notes (1)
References
D. Sedley, The Midwife of Platonism. Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2004.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- ο313Ὁμοίωσιςassimilation, becoming like[Meaning] similarity. Search also under 'sequence'. And the dative [sc. of the glossing word, o(moio/ths, is] o(moio/thti.
- ο314Ὁμοίωσιςassimilation, becoming like"['Becoming like' is] twofold: the one [that makes reference] to the same [form], and the one [that makes reference to] a different [form]." But when Plotinus says “becoming like a god”, it should be taken in a…
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Revision history5 revisions · last 6 Dec 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked note, added link — Catharine Roth
- another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Expanded note. — Marcelo Boeri
- tweaks, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri