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130 entries for perishable matter

α4374Ἀτοπίας πλέων πρᾶγμαa matter full of absurdity… at nu 222). The phrase "full of absurdity" (without "a matter") comes from Aristophanes, Frogs 1372, where "of a marvel" is a scholiast's gloss. [2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley (102-103), on …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4092Ἀρχήprinciple… goes on growing until it becomes coextensive with the whole matter. The permanent world restoration is always preceded by a conflagration (ekpurosis), a sort of cosmic burning in which all things, except god (a …Matched in noteshighshort
α2827Ἀξίωμαproposition… not be understood as meaning a physical thing. As a matter of fact, for the Stoics it is an incorporeal (cf. Sextus Empiricus, Adv.Math. 10.218). For a comprehensive discussion of the Stoic axioma see …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1454Ἐντελέχειαactuality, complete reality, entelechy… [1] In Aristotle’s model of change the substratum is the matter, that which underlies the process of change and out of which something comes to be. Aristotle’s scheme of change involves three factors: (1) …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι370Αἴτιονcause… typical example, the causes of a house: bricks and planks (matter); the layout or blueprint (form); sheltering goods and people (end); the architect and builders (maker). The subsequent distinctions are not Aristotelian; they are …Matched in noteshighshort
ι159Ἱερατικὴpriest-craft, religion… of being from the One down to the level of matter. The sentence seems incomplete. [2] Greek and Egyptian philosophy evidently cannot be reconciled. [3] Greek religion has borrowed some beliefs from Egypt, including …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ515Διαγεγονότοςelapsed, gone through, surviving… the concept of “scientific precision”: see n.3), this may be material excerpted from a philosophic text of the early Byzantine period.Matched in noteshighshort
μ681Μεταβολήchange; about-turn… the substratum or what underlies any change (which identified with matter), (2) privation, the negative determination the 'thing' in process of change has before acquiring the positive determination or (3) form, which turns out …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ435Δημιουργεῖcrafts, creates, works at… whether the universe was created from nothing or from pre-existing matter.) Likewise in other lexica; the headword must be quoted from somewhere.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1476ΔῶροςDoros, Dorus… Philosophical History) as the source of this entry, as a matter of fact the Philosophical History is in the main reconstructed from the Suda and Photius. Scholars such as Asmus and later Zintzen undertook …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2832Ἐπωβελίαobol-fine… is cited. [2] Plato, Laws 921D (on a quite different matter: anyone in Magnesia who takes delivery of a piece of work from a craftsman but fails to pay him for it within a …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3781Εὐτυχεῖsucceeds… point the applicability of a universal truth to the special matter in hand" (J.D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, 2nd. corr. edn., Oxford, 1966, 542-543). The concept of eu)tuxi/a, as happiness or fortune gained partly …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1995Κομήσῃςyou would grow your hair long… "But it will be no less = it does not matter." [3] Aristophanes, Clouds 835-836 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1355ΔομνῖνοςDomninos, Domninus… the comets. Domninus maintained that the comets consist of dry matter in a powdery aspect, and the passage of the Earth through the tail of one of these heavenly bodies had brought about the …Matched in noteshighlong
κ1640Κίνησιςmotion, movementLargely from material in John Philoponus, On Aristotle's De anima (65.34-66.28, 71.9-10, 93.31-2, 94.1-95.35, 97.5-18, 98.10-14 & 19-20, 229.36-230.3, 272.17-18). In Adler the two sentences (below) beginning 'Motion ...', after the introductory paragraph, are …Matched in noteshighlong
ε3817Εὐφυΐαnatural ability, natural suitablenessThe unglossed headword, a feminine abstract noun, is generated by the subject-matter of the entry, which comes from Alexander of Aprodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 584.14-24 (on Aristotle, Topica 163b11-16).Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2341Ἐπιθυμίαappetite… D.L.: 'contentiousness is an appetite concerning a hairesis' (i.e. a matter of partisanship, whether in philosophical doctrine or another context). [2] Or 'contrary to what is convenient', as suggested by the Stobaeus version of …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3633Εὐπάθειαgood affective state… must not be feared but treated with caution. Passions, no matter how irrational they seem to be, are in the domain of the rational, for irrational beings (or small children, who have not developed …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ618ΜένωνMenon, Meno… illustrate the villainy (panourgi/a, willingness to undertake any act no matter how immoral) of Meno. The mss have "friendship" in the preceding subordinate clause in the dative of manner (fili/a|, 'in friendship/love'): 'When there …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3289Ἀπόδειξιςdemonstration… they think they are offering a tekmh/rion, as though the matter at issue were shown and concluded (Rhetoric 1357b5-10). On the other hand, according to Aristotle, a shmei=on (sign) is meant to be a …Matched in noteshighlong
α2026Ἀναποδίζεινto cross-examine… the hostile sense suggested here in evidence.) Same or similar material in Photius and other lexica. [2] The second part of the entry derives from the equivalent one in Harpokration, where Antiphon the sophist …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1002ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles… also epsilon 1003, epsilon 1004, and under epsilon 1001. The material of the present entry is drawn largely from Diogenes Laertius. [1] Or "Exainetos": Inwood and others (from Satyrus ap. DL 8.53). Xenetos is …Matched in noteshighmedium
α242Ἁγιστείαςrituals… at web address 1; and cf. generally alpha 234. Same material in other lexica (references at Photius alpha176 Theodoridis), and also in the scholia to Plato, Axiochus 371D, where the headword -- accusative plural, …Matched in noteshighshort
α321Ἀγωγήdeportment, carriage, upbringing[1] Same or similar material in other lexica; references at Photius alpha303 Theodoridis. [2] From the Commentary on Aristotle's Topica by Alexander of Aphrodisias (423.20-424.2); it continues the material begun under alpha 320. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1079Μῖμοςactor, imitator, mimic… (but other cases appear in classical authors). [1] This supplementary material is noted by Adler as a marginal addition in manuscript A.Matched in noteshighshort
α3787Ἀργυραμοιβόςmoney-changerSame material, variously, in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. (The headword occurs in the accusative plural in Plato, Politicus 289E.) [1] The word for "cashier" here, kollektarios, is the Greek version of the …Matched in noteshighshort
λ692Λουτράbaths… but they can perhaps be associated in sense. If the material is from an (unidentifiable) account of Alexander the Great, then the monarch would be the 'himself' of the final part. 'A slave of …Matched in noteshighshort
μ94Μαλακόςdelicate, soft, mild… is lacking in Philoponus: "alleges the flesh as being a material cause ..." [3] This is one of the forms of causality distinguished by the Stoics and in this context is probably being used …Matched in noteshighmedium
η98Ἡδονήpleasure… eta 97, eta 99. The source of the present entry's material is indeterminable. [1] Epicurus: epsilon 2404, epsilon 2405, epsilon 2406.Matched in noteshighshort
λ793Λυκάβαςtwelvemonth, lykabas, lycabas, lukabas, light-course, wolf-gang… 19.306 (web address 2). Most if not all of the material in the entry derives from commentary on these passages, and focuses on explaining the etymology of the word, something modern scholars are still …Matched in noteshighshort