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668
Ἰσότης φιλότης
equality amity
… 378] no.432. In Hesychius, i)so/ths is a headword glossed by
filo/ths,
with the comment dia\ to\ i)so/thti th\n fili/an e(/pesqai "because amity follows equality." For amity see phi 425.
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Ἀπολλώνιος
Apollonios, Apollonius
Of Tyana,
philosopher,
son of Apollonios and a mother from that town, members of the gentry. With him in her womb, his mother saw a genius standing near saying that he himself was the …
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1170
Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεωπαγίτης
Dionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite
… impiously using divine things against [other] divine things. The true
philosophers
ought indeed to be led by the knowledge of reality, which he does well to call
'philosophy'
and the divine Paul has called …
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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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340
Εἰ φίλου χρῄζεις ὑπουργίας
if you need a friend's services
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those with a noble spirit. For when Antisthenes was ill Diogenes said something like this before handing him a dagger.
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157
Χαῖρε φίλον φῶς
farewell dear light
When a woman wants to misbehave and puts out the lamp, this, they say, is what she says. But others [specify] a bad woman, others an old one.
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4084
Ἀρχέλαος
Archelaos, Archelaus
Son of Apollodorus or of Midon; a Milesian, a
philosopher,
called a 'natural
philosopher'
with respect to his
philosophical
school.. [It is on record] that he was the first to introduce natural
philosophy
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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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2424
Ἐπίκτητος
Epiktetos, Epictetus
Of Hierapolis in Phrygia; a
philosopher;
a slave of Epaphroditus, one of the bodyguards of the emperor Nero. Disabled in a leg because of a flux, he lived in Nicopolis, [a city] of [the …
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3504
Εὐθύδημος
Euthydemos, Euthydemus
… character of the city strange and not good for pursuing
philosophy
in. For nowhere were people more addicted to luxury -- jokers and brutes all -- and they were more interested in their linens …
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450
Γρηγόριος
Gregorios, Gregorius, Gregory
… arts of grammar and poetry but excelled even more in
philosophy,
and was an accomplished rhetor. This man wrote many prose works; for his compositions count together approximately 30000 lines. Amongst them are the …
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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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291
Ἱλάριος
Hilarios, 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 …
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475
Ἡρακλῆς
Herakles, Heracles, Hercules
Alcmene'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 …
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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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472
Ἡράκλειτος
Herakleitos, Heraclitus
… Bautor, but others [say] of Herakis; from Ephesus; a naturalist
philosopher,
who was nicknamed "Obscure." This man was a disciple of none of the
philosophers,
but he trained himself by natural ability and diligence. …
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568
Χρύσιππος
Chrysippus, Chrysippos
Son of Apollonides; of Soloi or Tarsus. He was a
philosopher,
pupil of Cleanthes, and he led the Stoic school after Cleanthes. He died at the age of 73 because he drank immoderately and …
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3916
Ἀριστοκλῆς
Aristocles, Aristokles
Of Messene in Italy; Peripatetic
philosopher.
He composed On
Philosophy,
10 books; Whether Homer or Plato is more Serious. In these books he catalogues all the
philosophers
and their opinions. He also wrote an …
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4361
Ἀττικός
Attikos, Atticus
… [= in] Armenia, and from youth he was taught to
philosophize
by a monk of the Macedonian sect. Then they were prominent in
philosophy
all through Sebasteia from their company with Eustathius, who we …
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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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1352
Δομετιανός
Domitian, Domitianus, Dometianos
… shorn and brought into court in fetters. And when the
philosopher
did not relent in his ridicule of the things that had happened on account of him and in his criticism of the things …
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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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611
Ἡσύχιος Μιλήσιος
Hesychius of Miletus, Hesychios of Miletos
Son of Hesychius the lawyer and of
Philosophia.
Lived during the reign of the emperor Anastasius. He wrote A biographical dictionary or Index of notable literary figures, of which this book [i.e. the Suda …
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564
Ἱπποκράτης
Hippocrates, Hippokrates
… as some say he was also a pupil of the
philosopher
Democritus of Abdera, for as an old man he devoted himself to the youth; and according to some also [a pupil] of Prodicus. …
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1476
Δῶρος
Doros, Dorus
The one from Arabia. As Damascius says in his
Philosophical
History, he was a most remarkable investigator of the truth. Isidore the
philosopher
perceived initially that he was caught up in Aristotle’s propositions, seeing …
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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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1043
Κατηδολέσχησά σου
I wearied you with my prattling
… 32 (p.40.9 Bidez-Cumont). For a similar phrase, again in a
philosophical
context, see Plutarch, Moralia 503B (from the de Garrulitate), an anecdote about Aristotle wearied with the talk of an interlocutor. As in Julian's …
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159
Ἱερατικὴ
priest-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 …
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