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266 entries for perishable matter

δ522Διαγνώμωνdistinguishing… For instance, if he heard any unclean woman speaking, no matter where or how, he immediately got a headache, and this was taken as a sign that she was menstruating. Even his birth had …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2558Κοινόνcommon, ordinary… gold and silver, and every metallic natural reality and woody matter are common, but, nevertheless, they have come to be divisible because of the desire for gain. Virginity, celibacy, priesthood, and the rest of …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι178ἹεροκλῆςHierokles, Hierocles… Socrates' words were like cubes: they were everywhere 'no-fall', no matter how they landed. Of Hierokles' courage and high-mindedness the lot that befell him gave evidence. For when he went to Byzantium he gave …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2498ΚροῖσοςCroesus, Kroisos… and had somehow incurred his father's displeasure. Wanting in this matter to be free of the blame and at a loss for a source of mercenaries to hire -- for they used hired [troops] …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2551Κοιναὶ ἔννοιαιcommon conceptions… accounts of things in itself, since it has descended into matter, as if it were buried in it, just like a spark hidden in the ashes. Now, just as when someone digs up the …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1579ΔύνωμαιI were able, I would be able… assignment received needs to be possible to fulfil and the matter itself has to be suitable for fulfillment.Matched in translationhighmedium
κ214ΚαλλίαςKallias, 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 …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1996Κομῆταιcomets… trimeter; for I myself shall not speak about that dreadful matter and word." "No long-haired fop but 's been caprificated."Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2147Κόσμοςcosmos, kosmos; order, ornament, decorum, universe… remain the same in number, since they were originate and perishable, but these things partake in eternity as they are able, because all things desire the eternity of the first [dawn] as their own …Matched in translationhighmedium
β229Βεκεσέληνεbekeselene… out the accurate truth because many were contentious in this matter, he devised something like this. Taking two newborn infants he shut them up in a house absolutely isolated. And some say that he …Matched in translationhighmedium
ει142Εἱμαρμένηfate… account of an "unavoidable" cause; or "the power that moves matter". But we acknowledge Christ as the god who governs everything.Matched in translationhighmedium
ει144Εἱμαρμένηfate… 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 …Matched in translationhighmedium
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
ε3036ἙρμείαςHermeias… there was a kind of ambush and deceit in the matter, not one which speaks falsehood, but one which keeps quiet about the truth, so that it escaped most people’s notice that it was …Matched in translationhighmedium
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
αι286Αἵρεσιςschool, sect… of which" is, for example, the most accurate presentation. Both matter and the active are principles of everything, [the latter being] the production and [the former] the place, for it is "that out of …Matched in translationhighmedium
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
ε2424ἘπίκτητοςEpiktetos, Epictetus… says that] the philosopher Theosebius drew much of his speeches' matter from Epictetus' Disputations, but others of these he elaborated on his own, as inventions of a Muse adept in reproducing characters and sufficient …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2586ΚυβέληKubele, Kybele, Cybele; Kubebe, The Great Mother of the Gods and Men… Cybele was more often known in Rome as Magna Deum Mater (Great Mother of the Gods) and hence today as 'The Great Mother'. Catullus' Attis (poem 63) describes with a certain horror the practice …Matched in noteshighmedium
α836Ἀκέραιοςuncorrupted, intact, fresh, unblemished… unaffected by wounds to body or spirit, unpolluted by extraneous matter' or 'in a state not affected by previous experiences or failures'. The adjective is not derived from the root of mixing seen in …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
δ810Διαφανέςtransparent… air and water transparent, but also many of the solid materials, such as moonstones, horns, glass, gypsum, and other things. The celestial material also partakes of transparency and invisibility, such as the fluid of …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ302ΧιβούλδιοςChilboudios, Chilbudius… from the household of the emperor Justinian, extremely efficient at matters of war, but above material things to such an extent that instead of a large acquisition in his estate he had been able …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1113ΚάτωνCato… when someone asked Cato the Elder for his opinion about matters in Carthage and about Scipio, he said: "he alone can think, but the rest flit about like shadows".Matched in translationhighmedium
ι114Ἰδιόξενοςprivate guest-friend… to the public officials and arranges and manages the other matters in his own country, which differ from those in that city for which he serves as proxenos. But a doruxenos is a man …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1002ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles… two thousand lines of verse. [He also wrote] On medical matters in prose, and many other works.Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2721ΚυνόσαργεςKynosarges, Cynosarges… the bastards -- those qualifying as citizens neither paternally nor maternally -- used to exercize there.Matched in translationhighmedium
ι200ἹερώνυμοςHieronymos, Hieronymus… and narrow subjects, are compelled by the poverty of their material to make small things large and to compose a lot of verbiage about things that are unworthy of mention. Some even fall into …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1423ἈλυάττηςAlyattesKing of the Lydians, who was suited by birth to matters of war, but in all else without restraint; for he once dishonored his own sister. He was the father of Alyattes, who while …Matched in translationhighmedium
α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… in Krapataloi [writes]: "o master Aguieus, remember me in these matters."Matched in translationhighmedium