Φθείρω

I destroy

Translated by Catharine Roth28 Nov 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 50 words
[Used] with an accusative.1
"Whatever is destroyed is destroyed in [sc. one of] two ways, either in the manner of bodies, by dissolution into the elements, or in the manner of incorporeal things, when the form is extinguished by the disharmony of the substance [sc. in which it has existence]."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φθείρω· αἰτιατικῇ. ὅτι πᾶν τὸ φθειρόμενον κατὰ δύο τρόπους φθείρεται, ἢ τὸν τῶν σωμάτων τῇ εἰς τὰ στοιχεῖα ἀναλύσει ἢ τὸν τῶν ἀσωμάτων ἀποσβεννυμένου τοῦ εἴδους τῇ ἀναρμοστίᾳ τοῦ ὑποκειμένου.

Betacode
*fqei/rw: ai)tiatikh=|. o(/ti pa=n to\ fqeiro/menon kata\ du/o tro/pous fqei/retai, h)\ to\n tw=n swma/twn th=| ei)s ta\ stoixei=a a)nalu/sei h)\ to\n tw=n a)swma/twn a)posbennume/nou tou= ei)/dous th=| a)narmosti/a| tou= u(pokeime/nou.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Also in the Laurentian and Gudian Syntactica. For the related noun fqo/ros, see phi 513. ↩
  2. 2John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 16.18-20 Hayduck. The passage continues by illustrating the second kind of destruction: "just as harmony [is destroyed] when the strings are loosened." ↩

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φ482ΦθέγγομαιI give voice to, I utterφ483Φθείρkernelφ484ΦθείρωI destroyφ485Φθεῖσθαιto waste awayφ486Φθήμενοςoutstripping
Revision history3 revisions · last 3 Mar 2023
  1. cross-reference — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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