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ε1454Ἐντελέχειαactuality, complete reality, entelechy… issue of the separation of the form goes back to Plato and is a very important aspect of the dispute between Plato and Aristotle. The Platonic thesis that Forms are separated from the particulars …Matched in noteshighmedium
ει29Εἴδηforms… certain condition of calm and rest (Physics 247b9-13). For the Platonic antecedents of this theory, see Plato, Phaedo 96B and Cratylus 437A.Matched in noteshighmedium
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 …

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actuality, complete reality, entelechy

[This term means] the fulfilment and the form of the substrate; that is, the form that comes upon the matter out of a particular composition of elements; or [it is] the form [that is] inseparable from the body. For…

Ἐντελέχεια· ἡ τελειότης καὶ τὸ εἶδος τοῦ ὑποκειμένου· τουτέστι, τὸ εἶδος τὸ ἐπιγινόμενον ἐκ τῆς τοιᾶσδε συνθέσεως τῶν στοιχείων τῇ ὕλῃ· ἤτοι τὸ ἀχώριστον εἶδος τοῦ σώματος. καὶ…

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ε1182Ἔνδοξαplausible things; reputable opinions… more valuable than body. However, the wise men, such as Plato, assert that the soul is immortal, and Aristotle says that the heaven is composed of a fifth body, and that happiness is produced …Matched in translationhighlong

ε2404ἘπίκουροςEpicurus, Epikouros… under Nausiphanes the Democritean and under Pamphilus the disciple of Plato. [Epicurus] was born during the 109th Olympiad, seven years after Plato's death, and his life extended until the successors [sc. of Alexander] and …Matched in translationhighmedium

ει35Εἴδησιςknowledge… 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 lost it'. …Matched in translationhighmedium

α705Ἀθάνατοςimmortal… to animate things, but the [word] "imperishable" to inanimate ones. "Plato, when maintaining that the soul is immortal, assigns an equivocal term to immortal things. [This is] because what is strictly immortal is unchangeable, …Matched in translationhighmedium

δ1363Δόξαopinion… [is] immortal. For this is a task of thinking. Hence Plato also defines correctly opinion in the Sophist when saying that it is "the result of thinking", for thinking did infer that the soul …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε3664Εὖ πράττεινdo well, fare wellThe heading of the Letters of Plato [is] thus. He wrote 13 Letters. They are of the moral kind. 'Live well': Epicurus headed [his Letters] thus; but Cleon headed [his with] 'greetings'.Matched in translationhighshort

ει144Εἱμαρμένηfate… 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'. And Democritus said: all of us …Matched in translationhighmedium

αι286Αἵρεσιςschool, sect… of Cyrene, a friend of Socrates and a contemporary of Plato; Aristippus was active between the last decades of the fifth century and the first half of the fourth. But the real founder of …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1080Δικαίωμαact of justice… for by Antiphon (Frag. 44, Column I, DK), Thrasymachus (in Plato, Republic I) and Callicles (in Plato, Gorgias 482E-483D, 484A-C, 491A-492C).Matched in noteshighshort

α3830Ἀρετήarete, excellence, virtue… appetites] and being beyond what is without measure and limitless. Plato elsewhere names the political virtues "purifications." [There are] 4 virtues. Soundness of judgment and sagacity follow on prudence, good order and decorum follow …Matched in translationhighlong

ε3413Εὖ διάγεινlive well… [his letters] thus: 'live well'; but Cleon [preferred] 'greetings' and Plato 'do/fare well'.Matched in translationhighshort

χ166ΧαίρεινgreetingsKleon headed [his letters] thus, but Plato [preferred] 'do/fare well', and Epicurus 'live well'.Matched in translationhighshort

δ1362Δόξαopinion, reputation… Synagoge delta344; Photius, Lexicon delta711. [2] cf. the scholia to Plato, Philebus 61D, where doxa is mentioned.Matched in noteshighshort

ε913Ἐλπίςhope, expectancy… [1] See phi 559; for this definition of "fear" see Plato, Protagoras 358D and the Stoic doxography quoted in Diogenes Laertius 7.112.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3404Εὐδαιμονίαhappiness… Xenocrates fr. 81 Heinze. Xenocrates (xi 42), head of the Platonic Academy after Speusippus, held that everything is pervaded by soul, and daimons occupied an intermediate place between gods and human beings. [4] Alexander …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ538Χρῶμαcolor, musical modulation, chromatic scale… also Metaphysics 1057b8-10 and, for the underlying theory of color, Plato, Timaeus 67D-E). cf. chi 551, end. [2] Diodorus Siculus [delta 1151] fr.13 Walton.Matched in noteshighmedium