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Catharine Roth18
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Craig Gibson2
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α4482ΑὐτόitselfThe philosophers used to call 'itself' anything that was said in its proper sense. By means of this 'itself' they also signified the abstract form, saying 'mankind itself' and 'opinion itself', that is, properly …Matched in translationhighshort
α3235Ἁπλότηςsimplicity[Simplicity is] of two kinds. The one [is] intelligent and just, the other foolish and unjust. After all, the contemporary multiplicity also develops in some with justice and good sense, but in others with …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4587ἈφέλειαsimplicityAnd Damascius says that Isidore, besides simplicity, loved truthfulness especially, and undertook to be straight-talking beyond what was necessary, and had no pretence in himself whatsoever.

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The philosophers used to call 'itself' anything that was said in its proper sense. By means of this 'itself' they also signified the abstract form, saying 'mankind itself' and 'opinion itself', that is, properly and…

Αὐτό· αὐτὸ ἔλεγον οἱ φιλόσοφοι τὸ κυρίως λεγόμενον. καὶ τὴν ἰδέαν διὰ τοῦ αὐτὸ ἐδήλουν αὐτοάνθρωπος λέγοντες καὶ αὐτοδόξαστον, τὸ κυρίως καὶ μᾶλλον δοξαστὸν καὶ μᾶλλον δόξα· καὶ…

meter and music7

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trade and manufacture5

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α4490Αὐτὸ δείξειwill show itselfA proverb. 'The deed' is left out.Matched in headwordhighshort

ε2853Ἐπράξατοexacted [for him/her/itself][Meaning he/she/it] demanded. "They made exactions on the Byzantines and some others." Meaning they demanded money. And elsewhere: "but since, when he sought justice from the Athenians for the boy, he did not obtain …Matched in headwordhighshort

ε3460ΕὔηθεςsimplicityThucydides in [book] 3 and the philosopher [sc. use the word] in reference to [something] better.Matched in headwordhighshort

κ41Καθ' αὑτοῦ ΒελλεροφόντηςBellerophon against himself… to those who bring evils on themselves. kaq' au(to/ ["for itself"] ....... di' au(to/ ["because of itself"] e(te/rou e(/neken ["for the sake of another"] ..... di' a)/llo ["because of something else"]. The first antithesis …Matched in translationhighlong

χ539Χρῶμαcolor… same color. [...] He says that the visible, what by itself exists in the domain of the visible, is color, and says that surface is what is visible by itself. Surface is visible by …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3289Ἀπόδειξιςdemonstration… something is present primarily, this also belongs to it by itself. And [the expression] "by itself" means "what is according to substance". But it is not the case that if something is present by …Matched in translationhighlong

δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite… Dionysius was enthroned by him as the bishop of Athens itself. As for the skills in the Greek disciplines, his inherited culture, he was judged the most eminent of all [his equals], for generally …Matched in translationhighlong

ε3437Εὐεξίαvigor… cause of this is that vigor also includes health in itself; for health is vigor. This is why [vigor], which encompasses in itself health also, is a greater good than [health]. For added to …Matched in translationhighmedium

κ1640Κίνησιςmotion, movement… it is driven on toward the wholeness of each thing itself, by seeking to recover its appropriate rest. For when they are displaced by the action of some external force from that which is …Matched in translationhighlong

α4093Ἀρχήprinciple… and it can be understood] as "formal" because the soul itself endows with form the animal and animate things altogether. For the animate forms are said to be this very thing [sc. animate] because …Matched in translationhighlong

ε1923Ἐπαγωγήinduction; sequence-formation… means of certain true things,properly infers a truth similar to itself. There are two modes of induction: the one proceeding by contrariety and the one proceeding by reciprocal implication. Now the mode of induction …Matched in translationhighlong

β437Βούλησιςwish, rational desire… practical faculties of the soul. [...] And wish belongs by itself to the rational soul itself, while choice belongs to the part [of the soul] which is involved with lack of reason. For when …Matched in translationhighmedium

α118Ἀγαθόνgood… identical with or not different from benefit; hence, both virtue itself and what participates in it are called "good" in three ways: as the good (i) from which [being benefited] results, [and (ii) according …Matched in translationhighmedium

α485Ἀδικίαinjustice… [it is] harmful. For injustice does injustice even to nature itself, to the extent that it itself is appropriated. It is also destructive, partly of the civic community, partly of all exchange; to humans …Matched in translationhighmedium

δ673Διανοεῖσθαιto think… For thought [is] a kind of speech, with the soul itself speaking by itself."Matched in translationhighshort

δ1319Δογματίζειdogmatizes, sets forth dogma… name for two things: the thing opined and the opinion itself. Of these the thing opined is a proposition [protasis], and the opinion itself a conception [hypolepsis]. Now Plato ‘revealed’ things he understood; he …Matched in translationhighmedium

η97Ἡδοναίpleasures… pleasures, is happiness. And particular pleasure is worth choosing by itself, but happiness is not worth choosing by itself but by particular pleasures. Pleasure is an irrational elation over what seems to be worth …Matched in translationhighlong

κ2551Κοιναὶ ἔννοιαιcommon conceptions… argues about the intelligible objects, [it does so] not by itself, but being joined with the intellect, just as it also argues about the sensible objects being joined with imagination. For even though most …Matched in translationhighmedium

λ470Λῆροςdementia, delirium… taken over by dementia, does not take on suffering in itself — something which might allow it to be considered corruptible and mortal. With the organ mutated, and incapable out of unfitness to receive …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε1251Ἐνέργειαactivity, actuality, actualization… as "building a house", has its end beyond the action itself (the builder, when building a house, has not built it yet, i.e. the agent is not doing something and at the same time …Matched in noteshighmedium

α425ἈδάμAdam… this wisdom and this discrimination? He gave names to nature itself, as though prescribing the essence of each animal, without practice, without prior consideration, with no preparatory effort at the things which people take …Matched in translationhighlong

α1751ἈμφίωνAmphion… man discovered not only the scales but also the lyre itself with them, either by using a rather marvellous intelligence or some divine gift, through an unassisted success? And most of the ancients, especially …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2130ἈνάχαρσιςAnacharsis… He wrote Customs of the Scythians in verses, Concerning the simplicity of those things pertaining to human life, all in eight hundred verses. He discovered the anchor and the potter's wheel. He lived in …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2533Ἄνθρωποςman… body in life of the animal, it becomes better than itself, and it becomes prophetic in sleeps, by dreams, and in delirium during illnesses, much more is it improved when it is completely separated …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2733Ἀντιτυπῆσαιto resist, to strike against… from tangible things,' says Aristotle. Because even though it concerns itself with a particular kind of tangible thing, yet one sort which is not visible falls under the category of touch; through this [touch] …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2827Ἀξίωμαproposition… or false or a self-contained matter deniable or affirmable in itself; for instance, "it is day", "Dion is walking". Among philosophers the term "proposition" (axioma) has taken its name from "being accepted" (axiousthai) or …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2845Ἀόρατονinvisible, unseen… the organ of the sense, and certainly not the sense [itself]; rather, [the sense] is able to apprehend what is visible in accordance with privation. For irrational creatures also discriminate by means of their …Matched in translationhighmedium

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