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ε3735Εὐσέβειαpiety[Meaning] a knowledge of the service of a god. Therefore excellent people, in being pure, are fitting to offer sacrifice to a god; for they avoid the sins concerning a god, and god is …highmedium
ε3736Εὐσεβεῖνto act piously"We ought [to act piously] toward what relates to the god, since father Zeus regards all else as secondary." And elsewhere another [writer] says: "the only road toward happiness shown to mankind by god …highmedium
ε3817Εὐφυΐαnatural ability, natural suitablenessIt is [the property] of someone of natural ability to be familiar with what is true, but to reject what is false. He who possesses this also has the capacity of properly discerning what …

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[Meaning] a knowledge of the service of a god. Therefore excellent people, in being pure, are fitting to offer sacrifice to a god; for they avoid the sins concerning a god, and god is delighted with them; for they are…

Εὐσέβεια· ἐπιστήμη θεοῦ θεραπείας. σπουδαῖοι τοιγαροῦν θύειν θεῷ ἁρμόδιοι, ἁγνοὶ τυγχάνοντες· ἐκνεύειν γὰρ τὰ περὶ θεοῦ ἁμαρτήματα, καὶ τὸν θεὸν ἄγασθαι αὐτούς· ὁσίους τε γὰρ…

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ε3988Ἐχέμυθονconfidential, reserved[Referring to] a secret mystery, or a wise [person]. "He [Isidore] was reserved for the most part and a person of hidden thoughts, but he had poured out his whole soul towards the common …highshort

ει22Εἰδέαidea, form, aspect, figurePlato makes use of different names with the same meaning. At any rate he names an idea 'form', 'genus', 'paradigm', 'principle', 'cause', [this form being] neither liable to change nor remaining [the same], and …highmedium

ει23Εἰδέαaspect, figure, form[Meaning] shape. "Handsome with regard to his appearance if anyone is." People now write the [word] 'idea' with the [letter] i.highshort

ει29ΕἴδηformsThe Pythagoreans used to say that the monad and dyad and triad are principles of the forms, since those who arrange from the monad up to the tetrad produce the decad; and they also …highmedium

ει35Εἴδησιςknowledge[Meaning] acquaintance/knowing. Knowledge [is] threefold. For [I] science is called 'knowledge', as Plato says in the Phaedo: for to know is this, 'having acquired knowledge of something, to keep it and not to have …highmedium

ει143ΕἱμαρμένηfateThe [existing] things that lie beyond the [sphere of the] moon [exist] on account of the [following] four causes: according to god, according to fate, according to our choice, according to chance. For example, …highmedium

ει144ΕἱμαρμένηfateThey said 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'. …highmedium

η20Ἡβητήρ(young) adult, in one's primeAlso [sc. attested is the related noun] h(/bh ["youthful prime"], [meaning] the first growth of the [facial] hairs. In the Epigrams: "young men in their prime [are] not a fine thing. For I detest …highshort

η87Ἤδηsoon, just now[Meaning] before this, remaining, near the present indivisible now. A part of time, either of the future or of the past; for we say that [someone] is already taking a walk, and [so we …highshort

η97ἩδοναίpleasuresFrom the writings of Plotinus. [Pleasures,] pains, recklessness, fears, desires, aversions, and feeling pain of mind, to what do they belong? For they belong either to the soul or the soul making use of …highlong

η98Ἡδονήpleasure[sc. There is pleasure which is] impure and [pleasure which is] the natural state, about which Epicurus used to express his opinion, positing that pleasure is the end of all things. That is, the …highshort

η627Ἦτορheart[Meaning] soul/life. Homer [writes]: "he took away his tender heart". Which is precisely what impelled the Stoics, because the soul increases with the body and decreases again.highshort

ι76ἾβιςibisA serpent-eating bird. And it is declined i)/bidos [genitive singular], the i)/beis [accusative plural].highshort

ι95Ἰδέαform, idea"At that time many forms of evils were gripping the city." That is, [many] starting-points.highshort

ι122Ἰδιώτηςlayman, private individual, unskilled person[Meaning] one who is illiterate. Damascius says concerning Isidore: "among all the laymen of his time and similarly among the philosophers he was both a taciturn and person of hidden thoughts for the most …highshort

ι372Ἰνδάλματαapparitions[Meaning] figments, dreams, which one suspects not to exist [in actuality], likenesses, copies. Aelian [says]: 'so a vision, setting over [someone] the dream of a holy apparition, says that he has made a change …highshort

ι512Ἰωχμόςtumult, fury[Meaning] turmoil.highshort

ι651Ἰσόκωλονequimembral[Meaning something] that which has equal parts. Aristotle says that if an account of something compound is rendered which has as many parts as the compound also has -- [a compound] whose definition is …highshort

κ76Καθῆκόνdue action; what is appropriateThey say that Zeno of Citium was the first to have named [due action] and to have composed a treatise on it.highshort

κ77Καθῆκονdue action; what is appropriateThey say that a due action is that which when done has a reasonable justification, such as consistency in life. Such a consistency extends both to plants and animals for due actions can be …highmedium

κ150Κακίαvice, evilVices are analogous to virtues. Some [vices] are primary, others - such as imprudence, cowardice, injustice, intemperance, incontinence, slowness of understanding, ill-advisedness - are subordinated to these. Vices are [part] of ignorance. [This embraces] …highmedium

κ151ΚακίαviceThe word has a double meaning. [One is] the real vice, such as prostitution, seduction, greediness and perjury, slander. But hunger and pestilence, deaths and diseases etc. are not evils, because they often become …highshort

κ246Καλὸν πρᾶγμαfine thing, fine factHe[sic] calls [any good 'fine'] which is commensurate with its own utility. [...] The kinds of good [are] four: what is just, what is brave, what is well-ordered, what is scientific; for in such …highmedium

κ252Καλοῦ[of] fine, [of] noble[There are] three kinds [of fine]: what is just, what is brave, what is scientific.highshort

κ429Καρτερόςmighty, potent, staunch, strong[Meaning] one who is empowered. "Which it was not lawful to do in the land where [the] Romans, long since, are mighty". Meaning sovereign, empowered.highshort

κ622Κατάληψιςgrasping, cognition[Meaning] knowledge. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "[the celestial clouds give us] circumlocution and chicanery and cognition". He said this in a musical sense. For they speak of grasping [kata/lhyis], when they lay hold of …highshort

κ844Καταφαντὸνaffirmable[Affirmable] or deniable. Search under 'proposition'.highshort

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