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2374
Ἐπίκηρος ὕλη
perishable matter
[Meaning] that which is temporary.
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1355
Δομνῖνος
Domninos, Domninus
… capable man in mathematics, but rather superficial in other philosophical
matters.
As a result, he also perverted many of Plato's opinions with his own. Although he corrupted them, he nonetheless gave a satisfactory defense …
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1454
Ἐντελέχεια
actuality, complete reality, entelechy
… the substrate; that is, the form that comes upon the
matter
out of a particular composition of elements; or [it is] the form [that is] inseparable from the body. For actuality is the form …
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1149
Διόδωρος
Diodoros, Diodorus, Diodore
… Against Plato on God and the Gods, On Nature and
Matter,
in which is "What is the Just," Concerning God and the Falsely Imagined
Matter
of the Greeks, That the Unseen Natures are not …
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χ
317
Χιών
snow
… the nature of snow. For if whiteness is not the
matter
or the form of snow, then it is not in the essence of snow. But [whiteness] being incidental to the
matter
[of snow] …
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αι
370
Αἴτιον
cause
"The causes [are spoken of] in four ways: as
matter,
as form, as end, as maker." And of the causes some [are] antecedent, others auxiliary or cooperative, others (?)complete.
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1981
Ἀναξαγόρας
Anaxagoras
… of Clazomenae. He was nicknamed 'Mind', since he said that
matter
and mind are the guardian of all things. This is the man who said that the sun is a red-hot mass. That is, …
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3080
Ἀπετάφρευον
they fenced off with a ditch
… he had noticed that their idleness made necessary. For the
matter
had been one that the Romans did not want and it had sunk into oblivion. For labour [is] enemy to hesitation."
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3477
Ἀπόπειρα
trial
… any rate it hindered, as it was a most difficult
matter."
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)popeirw=mai ["I make trial of"]; [used] with a genitive.
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4599
Ἀφεὶς καὶ Ἀπαλλάξας
having let go and having set free
… in Hyperides. In reference to those who ignore more important
matters
and waste time on trivialites. 'Braces' are ropes on a ship by which the yardarm is shifted. And 'to let one's self go …
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δ
635
Διάληψις
judgment, grasping
… reversal." And elsewhere: "generally the masses have judgments about community
matters
in a manner similar to these, since nature teaches them." And Polybios: "the Romans, using their daggers not with a downward stroke but …
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δ
1240
Δίων
Dion, Dio
… him in the imperial chariot. He wrote Is the Cosmos
Perishable?;
Encomium of Heracles and Plato; In Defence of Homer against Plato, 4 [books]; On the Virtues of Alexander, 5 [books]. This man even …
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ε
1002
Ἐμπεδοκλῆς
Empedokles, Empedocles
… two thousand lines of verse. [He also wrote] On medical
matters
in prose, and many other works.
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ε
2498
Ἐπὶ ξυροῦ
on a razor
… the verge of danger, at the very climax of the
matter.
"He was obviously vexed at the prediction, and the danger he was in was on a razor's edge, as the saying goes; the …
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ε
2907
Ἐργολάβος
contractor; profit-maker
… e)rgola/bos. Rather, they use the word in reference to disreputable
matters,
as Demosthenes [does] in the Letter to the council and the people: "for the present situation is far more in need of goodwill …
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ε
3116
Ἐσάλευε
was riding
… to people. Applied to boats, as Dio in the Roman
Matters
[writes]: "for a few of the boats, and the lightest among them, were anchoring close to land, but the greater number of them, …
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ει
144
Εἱμαρμένη
fate
… that fate is a necessary power and that it sets
matter
in motion. And Plato calls chance 'cause that is produced incidentally as a coincidental occurrence either of nature or of choice'. And Democritus …
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κ
214
Καλλίας
Kallias, Callias
… possible virtue on his ruler; but it was an easy
matter,
I think, in the exchange of favors, for the writer in his adulation not to fall short of the bribery from the royal …
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κ
1640
Κίνησις
motion, movement
… things are also activities without potentiality. But it is a
matter
for investigation, whether the motions in the mover and in the moved are two or a single one, and of which there would …
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κ
1996
Κομῆται
comets
… trimeter; for I myself shall not speak about that dreadful
matter
and word." "No long-haired fop but 's been caprificated."
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χ
418
Χοσρόης
Chosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw
… king and a Persian, concerned with so many peoples and
matters,
because he nevertheless desired to enjoy literature somehow or other and to be exalted in his reputation for these things, then even I …
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χ
537
Χρῴζω
I stain, I tinge
… kataxrw/|zw ["I color"]. "He/she/it was coloring the fine-ness of the
matter."
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δ
654
Διαμησάμενος
having cut through
… Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXIX. Favuzzi (below) 219-221 takes up the
matter
more fully, seeking to determine how far Zonaras preserves Dio's ipsissima verba. [3] Polybius 3.55.6 (abridged and paraphrased), on Hannibal's crossing of the …
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818
Διαφέρων
carrying out; exceptional
… site of modern Hvar, on the south coast, remains a
matter
of scholarly dispute (Walbank, p. 330).
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1108
Δίκροτα
dikrota, two-banked
… the human pulse in all of Galen's treatises on this
matter,
and also in Byzantine medical literature. However, the connection with oared ships is already evident in Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 408, and in …
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ε
595
Ἐκπορποῦσθαι
to pin
… occurs outside lexicography. How we should translate it is a
matter
of some doubt. Hesychius (epsilon1644) glosses the same headword with fiblou=sqai rather than e)kfiblou=sqai. This suggests that the prefix ek- is merely intensive …
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1466
Ἐντετριμμένη
painted, powdered, rubbed-in
… the second less so. It might suggest knowing/knowledgeable in sexual
matters
(compare the adulterous wife in Lysias 1.14) but more probably reflects a late meaning of the passive voice of this verb; see LSJ …
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ε
2398
Ἐπικνίζεται
is scratched
… texts, in reference to the grating or crushing of vegetable
matter;
see, e.g., Theophrastus On the Causes of Plants 5.2.4; Dioscorides 1.127.1. For the more common un-prefixed form of this verb, along with a …
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3165
Ἔσοπτρον
looking-glass
… Greek, the difference between headword and gloss is simply a
matter
of prepositional prefix.) Latte regards the headword as quoted from the Septuagint (Ecclesiasticus 12.11). cf. under theta 289 and phi 671.
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κ
461
Κασπίῳ λίθῳ
with Caspian stone
… is presumably extracted from the unidentifiable quotation given. For Caspian
matters
cf. generally kappa 460. For close fighting/fighters see also under iota 437, lambda 254, sigma 1726.
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