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ι122Ἰδιώτηςlayman, private individual, unskilled person… similarly among the philosophers he was both a taciturn and person of hidden thoughts for the most part, but he had poured out his whole soul towards the common increase of virtue and the …Matched in translationhighshort
κ1506Κήλησιςenchantment, ravishment[Meaning a] persuasion accompanied by enjoyment. The [sc. kind of] pleasure breaking down[?] through discourses. Also a peace of mind accompanied by pleasure. [It derives] from xalw= ['I relax, slow down'].Matched in translationhighshort
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 …

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Ἰδιώτης

layman, 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 part, but he…

Ἰδιώτης· ὁ ἀγράμματος. Δαμάσκιος περὶ Ἰσιδώρου φησί· πάντων τῶν καθ' αὑτὸν ἰδιωτῶν ὁμοίως καὶ φιλοσόφων ἐχέμυθος ἐς τὰ μάλιστα καὶ κρυψίνους ἦν, ἀλλ' εἴς γε συναύξησιν τῆς ἀρετῆς…

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ε3404Εὐδαιμονίαhappiness… since it is possible that someone, even being an excellent person, is not happy. And if he is excellent, he is necessarily not bad. For virtue and vice are not without intermediate. And the …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε3633Εὐπάθειαgood affective state… opposite to fear, being a rational avoidance. For the wise person is not affected by fear in any way but will be cautious. And wish is opposite to appetite, being a reasonable desire. Now …Matched in translationhighmedium

αι326Αἰσθήσεις5 senses… along with those [sensible objects] that are smaller. For the person tasting flavors that are more ready to strike than the gentler ones cannot have any perception. And the person who has heard the …Matched in translationhighlong

δ1424Δοῦλοιslaves… type of] slavery, the one [consisting of] subjection [to another person], and a third one [consisting of] both possession [by another] and subjection [to another person]. Its opposite is despotism [or mastery], and this …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε1923Ἐπαγωγήinduction; sequence-formation… instance, in the first one it is investigated whether this person killed somebody; the proof that he did is that he was opportunely found with stains of blood on him. And this mode of …Matched in translationhighlong

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 …Matched in translationhighshort

κ246Καλὸν πρᾶγμαfine thing, fine fact… provides ornament, such as when we say 'only the wise person is good and fine'. But they say that only the fine is good, and this is virtue and what partakes in virtue, which …Matched in translationhighmedium

κ2162Κότοςwrath[Meaning] rage, or spite, or a greedy [person]. "Since the god was angry with them, the oracle certainly was not accepting them. And [as they] were petitioning to learn and begging [him] to proclaim …Matched in translationhighshort

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. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α118Ἀγαθόνgood… and (iii) by whom [being benefited results], as the virtuous person who participates in virtue. Or [they define it ] in this fashion: the good is the perfection in accordance with nature of a …Matched in translationhighmedium

α119Ἀγαθόνgood… someone to be lying down, he lies down: for the person who has a fever, for the sake of argument."Matched in translationhighmedium

α3830Ἀρετήarete, excellence, virtue… for example, must be either straight or crooked, so a person is either just or unjust, not more just or more unjust. The same thing occurs in the case of the other virtues too. …Matched in translationhighlong

ε563Ἐκ περιουσίαςsuperfluously, advantageously… Indeed this is the sense in which for a sick person to become healthy is preferable to dealing with philosophy." And Demosthenes in the [speech] On behalf of Ctesiphon [says]: myself, I am risking …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε1182Ἔνδοξαplausible things; reputable opinions… those which are in conflict with the opinion of some person whose opinion is held in high esteem, as it were, that "the soul is not immortal", because such an assertion is in conflict …Matched in translationhighlong

ε1370Ἐνθύμημαenthymeme, enthymema… admitted by the judges or the audience. For example, this person is worthy of punishment since he is a betrayer. In fact, the judge admits as something obvious that every betrayer is worthy of …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε1468Ἔντευξιςconversation… were somehow perversely disposed. Since in the case of the person who considers pleasure to be a good and is enslaved by it, by arguing that pleasure is a perceivable production [leading] toward nature, …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε2527Ἐπιπόλαιαsuperficial things, superficialities… who is sleeping has sight". For such things involve the persuasive [kind of] superficiality.Matched in translationhighmedium

ε2695Ἐπιτίμησιςcriticism, objection… argument were construed from the most implausible [premises] and less persuasive than the conclusion, or if, [the argument were construed] from [premises which are] true, but more difficult to demonstrate than the problem.Matched in translationhighmedium

ε3074Ἐρώτησις ἔνδοξοςprobable question… good thing is choiceworthy in itself, and who is [the person] seated. And there is another kind of question [which is] about substance; for instance, when [we are investigating something] and bringing forward what …Matched in translationhighmedium

χ488Χρημάτωνbelongings, goods, monies… concrete reality [or: something implying some business] or to a person [or: character] or to a speech, as Antiphon [does]; and they also assign the expression to mercantile wares. Lysias applies [it] to the …Matched in translationhighmedium

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 …Matched in noteshighmedium

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 …Matched in noteshighmedium

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 …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε491Ἐκμαγεῖονblock, lump, mould… documentation for the Fifty Year Peace between the Roman and Persian empires (561-562).Matched in noteshighshort

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 …Matched in noteshighshort

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.Matched in noteshighmedium