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- κ1506Κήλησιςenchantment, ravishment… here anyway, has been suggested: katakhlou=sa in the editio princeps, persuasively citing Diogenes Laertius 7.114 (kh/lhsis ... e)stin h(donh\ di' w)/twn katakhlou=sa); kataxalw=sa Bernhardy, with (looser) reference to this verb in a scholion on …
- κ2711ΚυνισμόςCynicism… happiness is living in agreement with nature; 2) the wise person is the only one who is truly happy and free; 3) the commonly acknowledged goods, such as wealth, beauty, health, and so on …
- χ539Χρῶμαcolor… cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics 1030b17-19, 1037a31, 1064a25. [4] George of Pisidia, Persian Expedition 3.37, Eraclio e le guerre di Persia 3.37 Tartaglia; on the poet's veracity; cf. alpha 3499, Aeschylus fr. 176, and Euripides Phoenician …
- κ2162Κότοςwrath… where the editor follows Dindorf in rejecting 'or a greedy [person]' as an intrusion from another gloss. [2] Aelian fr. 50d Domingo-Forasté (47 Hercher).
- λ843Λύπηpain, distress, vexation… the Stoic Apollodorus (see Diogenes Laertius 7. 118). The excellent person is the sage who, according to the Stoics, is free of passions or emotional states (a)paqh/s; see Diogenes Laertius 7.117) in being completely …
- ε3404Εὐδαιμονίαhappiness… has Stoic echoes: "they (sc. Stoics) say that every base person (fau=los) is mad, since he is ignorant of himself and of his own affairs, which is madness (mani/a)" Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.68.18-19, ed. Wachsmuth). …
- ε3633Εὐπάθειαgood affective state… affection; it is the emotional state proper to the wise person. The issue of 'good affective states' is highly controversial in Stoic ethics. We have no texts where the topic is discussed at length, …
- κ246Καλὸν πρᾶγμαfine thing, fine fact… Stoic Self-contradictions 1038D, 1039C). The thesis that only the wise person is good and fine is Stoic in character too. [4] sc. to the Stoics. [5] Quotation not identified by Adler, but it is …
- α3683Ἀπράγμωνbusiness-free… get drunk" cf. omicroniota 140.) In fact, the Stoic sage person is said not to get drunk and drunkenness is defined as a raving (or "delirium") due to wine (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.109, ed. …
- ε2859Ἐπρέσβευενused to put first in rank… not demonstrably, extracted from the quotation given here) is third person singular, imperfect, of the verb presbeu/w, in sense I.2 at LSJ s.v. See again -- in another context -- at the end of …
- ε491Ἐκμαγεῖονblock, lump, mould… documentation for the Fifty Year Peace between the Roman and Persian empires (561-562).
- μ671Μεσότηςmean… mean relative to us, this mean being determined by prudent’s person reason (Nicomachean Ethics 1106b36-1107a2). So virtue finds and chooses what is intermediate between two extremities. Note, however, that Aristotle also places emphasis on …
- α3831Ἀρετήarete, virtue, excellence… or secure apprehension (katalepsis), you cannot cease being a virtuous person. The point is very controversial and apparently there was debate within the school (see Diogenes Laertius 7.91). In this context "melancholy" means "excess …
- α1654Ἀμπλάκημαfailure… fourth book of his treatise Ethical Investigations, as well as Perseus and Zeno himself, the founder of the school. [4] On the coast of Egypt, east of Alexandria. [5] The sense of the assertion …
- α1967Ἀνάμνησιςrecollection… the soul learns or thinks but rather saying that the person does this with his or her soul. In the lines quoted and commented on by Philoponus Aristotle maintains, as a conclusion, that there …
- κ77Καθῆκονdue action; what is appropriate… "correct action" (katorthoma), the action peculiarly belonging to the wise person -- the only one who, according to the Stoics, is capable of living virtuously.