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- ε2424ἘπίκτητοςEpiktetos, Epictetus… a slave, as opposed to the freedom of his soul); Simplicius, In Epicteti encheiridion 45.35, 55.30; and the epigram written by a certain Leontianus in praise of the philosopher, found in an inscription in …
- δ1080Δικαίωμαact of justice… Archelaus, after being a disciple of the natural philosopher Anaxagoras (Simplicius, In Phys., 27, 23-24), seems to have become a head of Anaxagoras’ school. Cf. alpha 4084, from which this material is taken. [4] …
- α1303Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷthere is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him… putrefaction: salt, brine, vinegar (de Temperamentis 1.533 Helmreich, cf. De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus 1.12.377.10f. Kuehn vol. 11, Peri\ a(/lmhs). Presumably brine is distinguished from salt as being a solution in which the …
- κ2558Κοινόνcommon, ordinary… [2] The passage is taken (with variations and omissions) from Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Categories 26.11-15, and John of Damascus, Dialectica sive capita philosophica 65.66-73 (PG 94, 657d, 659). [3] cf. Palladius, Life of …
- δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… the disposition (dia/qesis), not the state (e(/cis). For evidence, see Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 237.25-238.20; Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.71.1-2, ed. Wachsmuth. [2] Aristotle, unlike Socrates and Plato who make an indistinct use of the terms …
- ει144Εἱμαρμένηfate… little bodies'; see Diogenes Laertius 9.31 = A1 DK and Simplicius, Commentary on the De caelo 295.11 ff.). Necessity is understood as a sequence of natural causes or rather as a sort of mechanical …
- δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… form in later Greek; see Hesychius delta1918 dioshmei/a: tera/stion shmei=on; Simplicius on Aristotle, Physics 221b23; John Lydus, De ostentis 1; 15b; 37; 38; [John Lydus] De mensibus 2. However, I doubt that we should …