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Ἄνθρωπος φιλοπραγματίας
meddlesome man
In reference to a busybody.
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4643
Ἄφρακτος φίλων
unguarded by friends
[Meaning] not be-fenced and be-walled with friends because you left them behind deceived.
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1091
Ἐναγῆ φίλων
accursed of friends
[Meaning] he who is never held responsible by his friends for a cause which does not appear, but who is pure. We [the chorus] ask not to make [him] dishonored in words, but to …
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69
Ἀβραάμ
Abraham
… they were going to turn out in fact. In this,
Philo,
the Jewish
philosopher,
will be my confirmation via his work Life of the Statesman. About
Philo
it is said
"Philo
platonizes and Plato …
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2627
Ἐπιστήμη
science, 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.
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1214
Διότι
because
[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 …
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2341
Ἐπιθυμία
appetite
… 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 …
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286
Αἵρεσις
school, 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] …
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1573
Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
… with difficulty the heavy protuberances that weigh down the neck."
Philo
said that two potentialities meet in every soul, a salvific and a destructive. This man did not sense even a dream of the …
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705
Ἀθάνατος
immortal
Philosophers
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 …
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1767
Ἕξις
dispositional state
This 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 …
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979
Ἀκριβής
accurate, 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; …
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4394
Ἄτρυτος
unabating
[Meaning someone/something] inexhaustible. "He was devoted to
philology
and unabating labors and overwhelmed the reputations of older and more clever men with his own name." And elsewhere: "during the daytime he gave himself over …
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833
Ἀκέραιον
unblemished
… frailty in Plutarch (Moralia 464B, 484C, 784A, 819F, etc.) and
Philo
Judaeus (LA 3.193, Sac. 15-16, etc.). The entry perahps suggests an etymological relationship between the adjective and this noun (cf. a)kh/ratos, and the …
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79
Αἰδεσία
Aidesia, Aedesia
… especially took care for her sons in the area of
philosophy,
desiring to bequeath to them the wisdom of their father as though it were a sort of inheritence of paternal property. She saved …
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294
Βίος
life, lifestyle
From 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 …
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45
Ἐγγαστρίμυθος
ventriloquist
… [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 …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-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.
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1454
Ἐντελέχεια
actuality, complete reality, entelechy
… named that way, “statue”, but not “bronze”. Porphyrius, the Tyrian
philosopher
who wrote against the Christians, calls the soul “actuality”.
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1080
Δικαίωμα
act of justice
… is said] that Archelaus, called "the physicist" due to his
philosophical
school, held the opinion that the just and the shameful did not exist by nature, but by convention.
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2654
Ἐπὶ σχολῆς
at leisure
To pursue
philosophy
in an unbusied manner, meaning on a good occasion or at a work-free [time].
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2723
Ἀντισθένης
Antisthenes
An 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 …
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3142
Ἀπῆγεν
led away
… Damascius [writes]: "but Sal[l]ustius led the young men away from
philosophy,
for one or the other of two causes: either to disagree with their teachers, out of hatred for them plotting against their
philosophical
…
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627
Διαλεκτική
dialectic
… 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 …
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1032
Ἐμποδών
in 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 …
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437
Βούλησις
wish, rational desire
Philoponus,
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,
…
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4348
Ἀτέχνοις
for 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 …
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Δύσεριν
quarrelsome
… note); evidently quoted from somewhere. In the literature du/seris and
filo/neikos
frequently occur together: e.g. Pindar, Olympians 6.19; Isocrates 1.31; Plutarch,
Philopoemen
17.7. [2] As in Hesychius delta2563. See also Etymologicum Magnum: *du/serin:
filo/neikon.
…
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2973
Ἀπέδει
fell short of
[Meaning he/she/it] failed [sc. to match up to].
Philopoemen
the Arcadian "fell short of none of the Peloponnesians in size and strength of body, but the appearance of his face was ugly."
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4093
Ἀρχή
principle
… that these genera are not like those of the Peripatetic
philosophers
(such genera being distinguished by each other, and some trace of the subordinate genera and forms extends from each), but as pervading genera …
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