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β294Βίοςlife, lifestyleFrom the works of Philo. "The church of Christ establishes two styles of life, the one supernatural and above the common human way of life, not accepting marriage nor the procreation of children nor …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3123ἘσσαῖοιEssenes, Essaioi… 1.328.7-10, 329.11-17, 344.19-21. The Essaioi or Essenoi are mentioned by Philo, Josephus, Pliny, and later authors (see Catholic Encyclopedia entry by E.P. Graham at web address 1, Jewish Encyclopedia entry by Kaufmann Kohler at …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1674Δυσωπεῖσθαιto look askance at… be ashamed) are mainly not Attic writers: Chariton, Heliodorus, Polybius, Philo, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dio Chrysostom, the emperor Julian, Libanius (see Francisco Adrados, 2002 s.v.) [6] This definition refers to the active form, …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ79ΧαναάνCanaan… with the devil-possessed daughter in Matthew 15:22. [3] See e.g. Philo Judaeus [of Alexandria], On Abraham 133.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1418Ἕνωσιςunion, unification… [1] This definition echoes the phrase e(/nwsis tw=n diesthko/twn in Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi 75.8, as part of a characterization of fate (ei(marme/nh) in the context of a Stoicizing doxography. (I am indebted …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2341Ἐπιθυμίαappetite… ethics), with variants noted below. [1] The definition of 'contentiousness' (philoneikia) which should now follow is omitted by the Suda. D.L.: 'contentiousness is an appetite concerning a hairesis' (i.e. a matter of partisanship, whether …Matched in noteshighmedium
η475ἩρακλῆςHerakles, Heracles, HerculesAlcmene's son. They give an account of him as a philosopher and they depict him wearing the skin of a lion, carrying a cudgel, and possessing three apples; which are the three apples the …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι291ἹλάριοςHilarios, Hilarius… of books; nevertheless he had been a late learner in philosophical discourse. For as he had been required to devote his life to the public affairs of his fatherland, he had no leisure for …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1214Διότιbecause[1] The second-century-AD Stoic philosopher of that name: fr.4 von Arnim. The most comprehensive study of his work (Elements of Ethics) is that of G. Bastianini and A.A. Long, "Hierocles", in Corpus dei papiri …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2627Ἐπιστήμηscience, understanding… character in the acceptance without dissimulation of presentations. Aristotle calls "philosophical sciences" physics, logic, ethics and metaphysics. But the understanding of the thing itself [is] also science.Matched in translationhighmedium
λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation… and places in which men were accustomed to congregate and philosophize. So says, too, Hierocles in [book] 1 of Philosophical Subjects. Herodotus [writes]: "and yet when a conversation had taken place, [sc. about] which …Matched in translationhighmedium
α705ἈθάνατοςimmortalPhilosophers assign the [word] "immortal" to animate things, but the [word] "imperishable" to inanimate ones. "Plato, when maintaining that the soul is immortal, assigns an equivocal term to immortal things. [This is] because what …Matched in translationhighmedium
αι286Αἵρεσιςschool, sect… certain type of account. Hippobotus says that there are 9 philosophical schools and ways of life: Megaric, Eretrian, Cyrenaic, Epicurean, Annicerian, Theodorean, Zenonian (the one also [called] Stoic), Academic, Peripatetic. [He does] not [include] …Matched in translationhighmedium
α979Ἀκριβήςaccurate, precise… is possible to show that the serious person is inquisitive [philopragmon] by changing "inquisitive" into "curious," for to examine and inquire of celestial matters and the things constituted by nature is to be curious; …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι159Ἱερατικὴpriest-craft, religion[Priest-craft] and philosophy do not originate from the same sources. But philosophy coming down from the one cause of all things to the foundation of [material] beings, through the middle of all kinds [of …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1767Ἕξιςdispositional stateThis entry represents a synthesis of certain philosophical ideas of John of Damascus, and cites two excerpts from his Philosophical Fragments 16 (5ff., placed in quotation marks above, with italics for a modification). The …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε45Ἐγγαστρίμυθοςventriloquist… [call] a Python, but Sophocles [calls] a chest-diviner, and the philosopher Plato [calls] a Eurycles, from a diviner of such a kind [named] Eurycles. Aristophanes in Wasps [writes]: "mimicing the oracle and device of …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2712ΚυνισμόςCynicismA philosophical school. Its definition [is] "a short-cut road to virtue". The goal of Cynicism is to live according to virtue, as Diogenes and Zeno of Citium say. The Cynics held that one should …Matched in translationhighmedium
ει142Εἱμαρμένηfate… during this present light of day," he is averting fate. Philosophers say that "divinity, intelligence, and fate are all one" and that "[this] is also called by other names". Fate is the "concatenated cause …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2723ἈντισθένηςAntisthenesAn Athenian, a Socratic philosopher from [among] the orators, who was first called a Peripatetic, then became a Cynic; he was the son of a father who had the same name, but a mother …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3569Εὔλογον ἀξίωμαprobable assumption, reasonable proposition… be alive tomorrow." "A discussion once occurred between Kleanthes the philosopher and Ptolemy the king about the wise man's judgment. Someone said that he would not have good judgment. Wanting to test him, the …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1032Ἐμποδώνin the way… word to mean impeding: he says in [book] 2 of Philosophical Matters, about philosophers, "for which of them did not even marry and raise children and care for property, if there was nothing impeding …Matched in translationhighmedium
β437Βούλησιςwish, rational desirePhiloponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 5.24-33 Hayduck; cf. alpha 1315, pi 2376. [1] Wish (bou/lhsis) and choice (proai/resis) are closely related each other. These terms had a crucial importance in Greek moral philosophy, …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ912Κατεγλωττισμένονtongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).… dictionary word. Properly a 'tongued-down' is the tongue-in kiss. And Philostratus [writes]: "But Apollonius cultivated a style of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic words nor sunk under too many glosses and full …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ627Διαλεκτικήdialectic… questioning and answering about some one thing discussed by the philosophers, or some one thing discussed by the politicians, about appropriate sketching [of] characters from adopted perspectives, and about a style of speaking. Dialectic …Matched in translationhighmedium
γ479Γυμνασίαexercise… is useful for three reasons: for exercise, for conversations, for philosophical sciences. Exercise, he is saying, is what happens in discussion over things; for they take a problem and will make trial of it …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1454Ἐντελέχειαactuality, complete reality, entelechy… named that way, “statue”, but not “bronze”. Porphyrius, the Tyrian philosopher who wrote against the Christians, calls the soul “actuality”.Matched in translationhighmedium
α4348Ἀτέχνοιςfor unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones… The "she" in question is the 5th century CE Neoplatonic philosopher Aidesia/Aedesia of Alexandria, student of Proclus at Athens, daughter, wife, and mother of Neoplatonic philosophers: see alphaiota 79. [4] cf. tau 441 (and …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… being an ambassador]. And there is a conversation of the philosopher Socrates with him. And Callimachus mentions him in his Choliambics, that he wrote many things.Matched in translationhighmedium
γ147Γεννῆταιclan-members, clansmen… first clan of the thirty clans; [they were those] whom Philochorus says were previously called homogalaktes ["drinkers of the same milk"]. Isaeus, however, names the clansmen simply as those related to one another by …Matched in translationhighmedium