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α69ἈβραάμAbraham… they were going to turn out in fact. In this, Philo, the Jewish philosopher, will be my confirmation via his work Life of the Statesman. About Philo it is said "Philo platonizes and Plato …Matched in translationhighlong
δ1573Δύναμιςcapability, 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 …Matched in translationhighlong
μ697Μετακόσμιονbetween worlds, metacosmic… interspace between worlds), must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps from Philo Judaeus, On Dreams 1.184.Matched in noteshighshort
αι117Αἰθεροβατεῖνto aether-tread, to tread the aether… Eunapius. But this rare verb is used far more by Philo Judaeus than any other author.)Matched in noteshighshort
δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios 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 …Matched in translationhighlong
κ2626ΚυΐσκωI produce offspring… for the verb (in the sense of 'produce offspring'); e.g. Philo Judaeus, Life of Moses 1.13.2. LSJ also cites an instance with a male subject where the verb connotes 'impregnate'. This may be the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1567Ἐξάρτυσιςequipment… Greek, first appearing (several times) in the artillery manual of Philo of Byzantium and later in Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 25.114; but it occurs again in Byzantine historians such as George Pachymeres and Theophanes …Matched in noteshighshort
κ400ΚαρνεάδηςKarneades, CarneadesA Libyan, from Cyrene, the son of Philokomos; a philosopher. The very man from whom the New Academy originated. They say that when he died, the moon suffered an eclipse and the sun grew …Matched in translationhighshort
ε1418Ἕνωσιςunion, unification… [1] This definition echoes the phrase e(/nwsis tw=n diesthko/twn in Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi 75.8, as part of a characterization of fate (ei(marme/nh) in the context of a Stoicizing doxography. (I am indebted …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4084ἈρχέλαοςArchelaos, ArchelausSon 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 from …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2627Ἐπιστήμηscience, 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.Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1852ΚνάπτωI cardWhen someone came to Xenocrates the philosopher to study philosophy, although he knew neither geometry nor astronomy, [Xenocrates] said: "here with me [ = in my school] wool is not carded".Matched in translationhighshort
ε2898ἘρατοσθένηςEratosthenes… Aglaus (others say Ambrosius); of Cyrene. A pupil of the philosopher Ariston of Chios, the grammarian Lysanias of Cyrene, and Callimachus the poet. Ptolemy III summoned him from Athens, and he lived until Ptolemy …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1080Δικαίωμαact of justice… is said] that Archelaus, called "the physicist" due to his philosophical school, held the opinion that the just and the shameful did not exist by nature, but by convention.Matched in translationhighshort
α1981ἈναξαγόραςAnaxagoras… of Tyana said of him that he was more a philosopher for beasts than for human beings. Crates of Thebes threw his property into the sea, doing something of no advantage either to beasts …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1240ΔίωνDion, DioSon of Pasicrates; of Prusa. Sophist and philosopher; they called him 'Golden Mouth' [Chrysostomos]. He affected gravity to such an extent that he went out wearing a lion's skin. He was physically slight, and …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1751ἈμφίωνAmphion… leisure, and you possess a fine nature, and you love philosophy, if anyone ever has; these three things coming together at the same time were enough to reveal Amphion as the discoverer of ancient …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1355ΔομνῖνοςDomninos, DomninusA philosopher, Syrian by descent, from both Laodicea and Larissa, a city of Syria; a pupil of Syrianus and the schoolmate of Proclus, according to Damascius. He was a capable man in mathematics, but …Matched in translationhighlong
γ207ΓέσιοςGesios, Gesius… he was stately and eloquent; delving only a little in philosophy, but in medicine to the fullest. In this way he came to possess a large fortune and was granted imperial honors that were …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1002ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles… studied first with Parmenides, and, according to Porphyry in his Philosophical History, became his beloved. But others maintained that he was a disciple of Telauges, son of Pythagoras. From Akragas, [he was] a natural …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι487ἼωνIon[Ion,] of Chios, tragedian and lyric poet and philosopher, son of Orthomenes, but also known as [son] of Xouthos. He began to produce tragedies in the 82nd Olympiad. There are 12 dramas of his, …Matched in translationhighshort
χ418ΧοσρόηςChosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw… a lover of literature and came to mastery of our philosophy, when the Greek writings had been translated for him into the Persian language by someone. And therefore they say that he gulped down …Matched in translationhighmedium
ν271Νευροσπαδὴς ἄτρακτοςstring-sped arrow[sc. The phrase occurs] in Sophocles in Philoctetes: [meaning] that which someone sends forth by a drawn bowstring.Matched in translationhighshort
ε1454Ἐντελέχειαactuality, complete reality, entelechy… named that way, “statue”, but not “bronze”. Porphyrius, the Tyrian philosopher who wrote against the Christians, calls the soul “actuality”.Matched in translationhighmedium
α4113ἈρχιμήδηςArchimedesOf Tralles. Philosopher. [He wrote] a commentary on Homer; and Mechanics.Matched in translationhighshort
α4554Ἄφαντον φῶςsecret light[Meaning] that [made] out of a fire-producing stone. Sophocles in Philoctetes [writes]: "but rubbing stone on stones I laboriously brought forth a secret light, which preserves me always. For a roof to house [me] …Matched in translationhighshort
α3987ἌρνουφιςArnouphisThis man was an Egyptian philosopher, who joined Marcus [sc. Aurelius], the emperor of the Romans, the philosopher. On one occasion, when the Romans were suffering from thirst, [the story goes that Arnouphis] suddenly …Matched in translationhighshort
κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… Rome, may have been of cubic form (R. Eisler, "Kuba-Kybele," Philologus 68 (1909) 118-151, 161-209, suggesting an etymology from the same root as the sacred Ka'aba in Mecca). [4] Greek Anthology 5.25.3-4, attributed to …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1028Διηχήsound-transmissioncf. John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 354.15.Matched in noteshighshort
α258Ἄγκυρανanchor[Note] that Anacharsis the Scythian philosopher invented the anchor and the potter's wheel. He lived in the time of Croesus.Matched in translationhighshort