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Ἀριστοτέλης
Aristoteles, Aristotle
… tradition of the Asklepiads, from Nikomakhos the son of Makhaon.
[Aristotle
came] from Stageira, a city of Thrace; he was a philosopher, a disciple of Plato, with a stammering voice. He had siblings Arimnestos …
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Ἀριστοτέλης
Aristotle, Aristoteles
"Timaios says against
Aristotle
that he was arrogant, reckless, and headstrong . . . (but not) a pedantic and detestable sophist who had just locked up his precious surgeon's shop, and who besides [this] …
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Διαθέσεις
dispositions
… For of the arts some are base, but some good.
Aristotle
rather commonly uses the name "science" instead of "art." The base and the good would belong to a disposition, it being a genre …
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Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
… or in actuality, or in full reality. Instead of 'body'
Aristotle
uses 'potentiality', and instead of incorporeal he uses 'full reality' [entelechy] when deciding on a definition concerning soul. And some of the bodies …
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Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος
of the Good Spirit
… others say that the first drinking vessel was called this.
Aristotle
composed a book On the Good in which he delineated the unwritten doctrines of Plato.
Aristotle
mentions the composition in the first [book] …
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563
Ἐκ περιουσίας
superfluously, advantageously
[Meaning] uselessly.
Aristotle
says superflously. "[They] having sent, superfluously, for Pamprepius too." So ek periousias means from great substance. "[The concept] 'superfluous' differs from 'necessary'. Now, necessary are those things without which it is …
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Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… For Simonides in Pentathla says they are 11, as does
Aristotle
in [his book] Concerning Animals, but Demagoras of Samos [says] 7, and Philochorus 9. Hegesander tells the myth about them in his Memoirs …
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Ἀξιώματα
axioms
Thus
Aristotle
calls both the propositions requiring demonstration and the indemonstrable ones, as [is] his custom.
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Χαλεπώτατον
very difficult
Aristotle
says in the second [book] of Topica: converting an appropriate name derived from an accidental [is] very difficult. One would say very difficult because it is not simple nor readily done, as in …
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Ἄνθρωπος
man
… Anthropos, a personal name of the Olympic boxing victor, whom
Aristotle
mentions in Ethics. "But personally, I said, I think that this is the only thing needed by men who want the art of …
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Ἀντιστρόφους
counterparts
Meaning equivalents. And
Aristotle
says that dialectic is the counterpart to rhetoric, since it also [is] about persuasive things, which by being probable are themselves of this same kind; for he says antistrophon ["counterpart …
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132
Δαιτρός
apportioner, carver, distributor
… poet [Homer] showed himself to be a glutton; and that
Aristotle,
by [depicting] seasoning, [revealed himself] to be an epicure and voracious; and that Dionysius the tyrant was an arranger of dining couches and …
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Δεκατεύειν
to pay a tithe
… mother on the tenth day after your birth named you?"
Aristotle
says that on the seventh day [after birth] they give the names. He writes as follows: "most babies are ‘taken up’ on the …
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Ἀπόδειξις
demonstration
This entry draws largely on Philoponus, Commentary on
Aristotle's
de anima (28.7-18, 29.23-28, 20.12-13 and 20-26, 31.15-20 Hayduck), with a final sentence from Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on
Aristotle's
Topica 2.22-23. cf. omicron 627. …
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Ἀριστόξενος
Aristoxenos, Aristoxenus
… the Erythraian, then of Xenophilos the Pythagorean and finally of
Aristotle.
He heaped insults on the lattermost after his death, because he left Theophrastus as head of the school, although Aristoxenos himself had achieved …
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Αἰσχρίων
Aischrion, Aeschrion
… Alexander the son of Philip. He was an intimate of
Aristotle
and beloved by him, as Nikandros of Alexandria [says] in On the Students of
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Ἀθάνατος
immortal
… For the concept of "equivocity" (o(mw/numon; cf. omicron 299) see
Aristotle,
Categories 1a1 and Eth. Nic. 1096b27-29. [4] This is Aristotelian doctrine: the heavenly bodies (stars, planets, and so forth) are eternal because they …
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1967
Ἀνάμνησις
recollection
[1] This sentence = John Philoponus, Commentary on
Aristotle's
de anima 158.15 Hayduck; and indeed the entry as a whole follows, with slight variations, Philoponus 158.5-23, the commentary on de anima 408b15-18.
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326
Αἰσθήσεις
5 senses
… of this entry is taken from John Philoponus, Commentary on
Aristotle's
de anima 229.12-24 and 262.29-263.11 (with some minor variations); the second from 311.8-32. cf. tau 905. [1] mu 952. [2] See
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Διότι
because
… commentary. [2] The source now becomes John Philoponus, Commentary on
Aristotle's
de anima 226.10-19 Hayduck. [3] The Greek word is noesis. [4] The second and the third way of considering the word "since" ("Secondly, …
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437
Βούλησις
wish, rational desire
Philoponus, Commentary on
Aristotle's
de anima 5.24-33 Hayduck; cf. alpha 1315, pi 2376. [1] Wish (bou/lhsis) and choice (proai/resis) are closely related each other. These terms had a crucial importance in Greek moral philosophy, …
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Ἀδοξότατα
utter improbabilities, very improbable [things]
[Meaning] paradoxical things, impossible things in
Aristotle:
"paradoxa are the opposite of endoxa, which are not altogether impossible things."
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Ἀκαλήφη
stinging nettle, sea-anemone
… the same length of time". As to the maritime nettles,
Aristotle
[mentions] them in the first [book] of Concerning Animals and [so does] Theophrastus in the seventh [book] of Plants.
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Ἄνακτες
lords
[Lords] and ladies.
Aristotle
in the Constitution of [the] Cypriots says: "they call the sons and brothers of the king lords, his sisters and wives ladies". Also [sc. attested are] a)na/ktora, [meaning] shrines. Also …
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Ἀνάλογον
proportion, proportionate
… to the reciprocal things which display the same a)nqufai/resis --
Aristotle's
word for a corresponding diminution. Those things which have proportion to one another also are said to be similar to one another. But …
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1951
Ἀνάλυσις
analysis
… to the meaning of analysis in the Analytics written by
Aristotle.
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Ἀνθυπουργῆσαι
to return a kindness
… "or will you promise on oath to requite a favor?"
Aristotle
said that a)nqufai/resis ["corresponding diminution"] [means] cancellation.
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Ἀντεπιχειρεῖν
to make a counter-attack, to make a counter-argument
*)antepixeirei=n occurs in
Aristotle;
a)ntepixeirei=n is not to bring an objection to things that are being said, but to attempt to infer in reply through other [arguments] syllogistically, that what is being shown [is] …
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Ἀντιπελαργεῖν
to cherish in turn
… favours. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)ntipela/rgwsis ["cherishing-in-turn"].
Aristotle
says that the story about storks is true; he says that bee-eaters also act similarly. Hence they carve on their staffs a stork …
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Ἀντιτυπῆσαι
to resist, to strike against
… not possess a single common origin from tangible things,' says
Aristotle.
Because even though it concerns itself with a particular kind of tangible thing, yet one sort which is not visible falls under the …
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