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26 entries for attention, pause for reflection, observation

ι598Ἶριςrainbow… a bow. Or "rays reflected from moist clouds. Or the reflection of a part of the sun or the moon, in a dewy cloud which is hollow and continuous in appearance, as if imaged …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ337ΔεινοκράτηςDeinokrates, Deinocrates… matters he was to the utmost degree incapable of paying attention or exercising sensible insight into the future, and even of preparing and delivering a speech to the masses. And having set in motion …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2527Ἐπιπόλαιαsuperficial things, superficialities… superficiality is something [that can be] refuted by a little attention. Such is the form of eristic premises and deductive arguments. For instance, "he who sees has eyes"; through which it is concluded [that] …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε277ἘζεκίαςEzekias, Hezekiah… Hezekiah took it out, as the people did not pay attention to God, because those who were ill obtained treatments for themselves from that book and overlooked entreating God [for healing]. He also made …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ367Λεῖξαιlixae, camp-followers, sutlers… was outside of any regiment and used to pay no attention to either a tribune or a general, because people didn't know that they made their profit by any means, justly and unjustly. So …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ448ΔημόκριτοςDemocritus, Demokritos… was black; and Hippocrates marvelled at the accuracy of his observation. Moreover, Hippocrates was accompanied by a young girl, and the first day Democritus greeted her with "Good day, maid," but the next day …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ455ΔημοσθένηςDemosthenesThe orator; he was a man of outstanding ability in reflection and in the expression of his thoughts; hence, too, he was regarded as the most eloquent among his contemporaries, since he was most …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1214Διότιbecause… more apt for intelligible understanding than to concede and pay attention to the argument trying to prove these things. Secondly, the universal is also something composed of the particular and of what has been …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3744ἌρατοςAratos, Aratus… are familiar and well known to those willing to pay attention. For in hunts, some men are bold in the face of the wrenchings of wild animals, but the same men are despicable in …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1475ἈμαλασούνθαAmalasountha, Amalasuntha… from the fear of teachers and ought to focus his attention on arms. They said also that if the fear of the strap came over them they would never be worthy to be bold …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… 75-6, with scholion; cf. epsilon 3615. [2] An extra, general observation on the above. It is not from the Sophoclean scholion; rather, from an indeterminable source also quoted in writers later than the Suda …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1458Ἅμαas soon as, at the same time[1] Same observation in syntactical lexica. [2] Demosthenes fr. 12 Sauppe. [3] Aeschines 3.52. [4] Demosthenes 21.122. [5] Antiphon fr.71 Sauppe. [6] Demosthenes 18.34.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε760Ἐλάχιστοςthe least [thing]… on, largely, Luke 16.10-12 (web address 1). Adler's note draws attention to similarities ('cf.') between it and later material: PG 123.968bc, by Theophylact Hephaistos, archbishop of Achrida (Ochrid) from the 1090s onwards. She did …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2134ΚόσσαςKossas, Cossas… be utterly speculative. A further potential complication (brought to my attention by Javier Sanz) arises with the only other attestion of the name Kosas (sic): that of the S. Italian river (a.k.a. Casuentus, present-day …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ618ΜένωνMenon, Meno… in their crimes. He considered himself worthy of honours and attention by displaying that he had great powers and was willing to abuse them; but whenever someone parted company with him he used to …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ867Κατάχει τοὔλαιον ἐν τῷ χαλκείῳpour the oil in the shield… a shield. Aristophanes' passage is a burlesque of augury through reflection, such as lecanomancy. The mention of being blinded by the shield presumably intends to explain the augury. [4] The connection between this material …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3831Ἀρετήarete, virtue, excellence… 3.71-72), where the author points out that if one pays attention to the organization, discipline or "good order" of the Roman army, it will be recognized that the Roman power is like a prize …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3598ΕὐνόμιοςEunomios, Eunomius [of Cyzicus]… of Constantius: see Vaggione (who brought this fact to my attention), Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution, pp. 292-4. [2] alpha 571. [3] The confusion between plural and singular here, and again in …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1270ἈλκάνηςAlkanes, Elkanas, Elkanah… addendum, in the margin of mss AM, is to draw attention to the Elkanas form of the name. The main body of the entry has Alkanes, as the headword. (The fourth book of Kingdoms …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2733Ἀντιτυπῆσαιto resist, to strike against… in Photius and other lexica. [1] In the sense of "reflection". [2] That is, flint: Greek Anthology 6.27.4 (Theaetetus Scholasticus). Find further extracts from this epigram, wherein a retiring fisherman dedicates his equipment, at …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos… But O'Brien has since argued for the traditional reading, calling attention to strange words used by Democritus, many preserved in ancient testimonia.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ822Κατατιλᾷshits down on… verb in this entry are hardly plausible. It omits the observation there that the verb that (in Aristophanes) means "to excrete diarrhoea stool" (to\ ko/pron dia/rruton e)kkri/nein) "now means to shed semen" (a)pospermai/nein, LSJ). …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1418Ἕνωσιςunion, unification… (I am indebted to Oliver Phillips for having drawn my attention to this passage.) For this conception of fate as linking individual objects, see also Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 7.2.3; Stobaeus, Eclogues 1.78.4-6. [2] …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… li/sphs. [5] I doubt if this is an accurate physiological observation. I have simplified in translation the long sentence, a remarkable example of the diverse ways in which the Greek language expresses reasons: (a) …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… yet humbles himself before their language appears to exemplify Horace's observation: "Captured Greece took her fierce victor captive" (Letters 2.1.156). [7] Aulus Gellius (Attic Nights 11.8.1) preserves another reaction by Cato that appeared in …Matched in noteshighmedium
β489Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher… and Photius, Lexicon beta321. It is based in part on observations of the grammarian/lexicographer Apollodorus of Cyrene (RE 1.286 'Apollodorus 65'). It should be read in the context of complementary observations in beta 486, …Matched in noteshighmedium