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87 entries for simplicity itself

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
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
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
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
α2248Ἀνελεῖνto overturn; to take up… or indeed broken it, [the council] passed a vote about itself, [to the effect] that it should be crowned. But the [version] with dative [sc. must be understood differently]: having overturned this law, [the …Matched in translationhighmedium
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
δ1257Διπλασιάσαιto double… number of the men remains the same, or the number itself. Each of these [senses may be distinguished] in two ways, either by files [lochoi] or by ranks [zuga]. [This is] the same as …Matched in translationhighmedium
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
λ491ΛίβερνοςLibernos, Libernus… knew from a Sibylline oracle that the earth would seal itself back together if the most valuable thing among humankind was pitched into the chasm, so some of them brought gold, and others silver, …Matched in translationhighmedium
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
ι573ἹππομένηςHippomenes… hunger, attacked the girl and ate her; and the horse itself later died. Subsequently the building was dug over and the spot named, from this [episode], horse's and girl's.Matched in translationhighmedium
α4463Αὐτάγγελοςself-announcing, announcing what one has seen[Meaning] that which delivers announcements from itself. "For the oak herself will tell you, self-announcing"; for it has writings. And elsewhere: "he would have come from the king/emperor as an announcer of these things …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3477Ἀπόπειραtrial… fire. Unless it satisfies the test, through which the thing itself is a test, this eagerness only pretends to exist and lies in wait for flighty youthful whims. Me at any rate it hindered, …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ25ΛάγοςLagos, Lagus… to visit [him] and, stretching down its wings while raising itself, protected him both from the direct ray of the sun and, whenever it rained, from heavy rain. It would terrify the ordinary birds, …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ23ΜαγνῆτιςMagnesian, magnetic… so-called, which has a natural power to draw iron to itself. In Egyptian Alexandria in the Serapeion there was a mechanism of deceit and wickedness of this kind: having made a statue of bronze …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ171Κακοῦ κόρακος κακὸν ᾠόνbad crow's bad egg… winged creature [of this name], because it is not edible itself, and nor is the egg which it lays. But others say it comes from Corax [Crow] the Syracusan, who was the first to …Matched in translationhighmedium
β440Βουλιμιᾶνto be starving… Xenophon says "to be starving" when the stomach is eating itself with hunger. "Going to the yoke beasts, if he ever saw some food he gave it to those who were starving." "And 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
α2245Ἀνελέγετοused to read through… which he said everything was wasted by time, but time itself was everlasting and undying because of memory." It is written: and a certain song was sung [by him] on memory.Matched in translationhighmedium
χ342Χλίδοςslime, sludge… the result of which was that he made the road itself higher and narrower". Slime is the word for a whole mass. And it is a sort of pile, particularly that of dross and …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
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
α2751Ἀντλίαbilge, bilge-water… ship]. "So I will seize and take away the bilge[-water] itself". From a metaphor of ships. For antlia is also said to be the efflux of a ship. And the Pisidian [writes]: "from those …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine… bring on gods; not setting them out on the stage itself, but on high by means of some kind of machine. The spectators would see this machine beforehand, but at the appointed time he …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ810Διαφανέςtransparent… things pass through. When light is not present this thing itself is transparent in potentiality, but becomes transparent in actuality when light is present. Not only are the air and water transparent, but also …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3051Ἑρμῶν Ἑρμοὶof hermai, of hermae, of herms… whereas falsity is manifold and divided and extremely discordant with itself.Matched in translationhighmedium
μ214ΜάρκοςMarcus… a student of Sextus, a philosopher from Boeotia, in Rome itself, seeking him out and going to [his] house. A certain rhetorician named Lucius, an associate of the rhetorician Herodes Atticus, asked him, as …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4289ἈσσύριοιAssyrians… time of the successors of Alexander, it was weakened in itself, [...] being conquered by the Romans. For the Greek forces were not worthy to be compared with them. For the Athenians ruled only …Matched in translationhighmedium
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