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668
Ἰσότης φιλότης
equality amity
… 378] no.432. In Hesychius, i)so/ths is a headword glossed by
filo/ths,
with the comment dia\ to\ i)so/thti th\n fili/an e(/pesqai "because amity follows equality." For amity see phi 425.
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3420
Ἀπολλώνιος
Apollonios, Apollonius
Of Tyana,
philosopher,
son of Apollonios and a mother from that town, members of the gentry. With him in her womb, his mother saw a genius standing near saying that he himself was the …
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1170
Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεωπαγίτης
Dionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite
… impiously using divine things against [other] divine things. The true
philosophers
ought indeed to be led by the knowledge of reality, which he does well to call
'philosophy'
and the divine Paul has called …
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8
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8
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1
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1
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1
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α
2539
Ἄνθρωπος φιλοπραγματίας
meddlesome man
In reference to a busybody.
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4643
Ἄφρακτος φίλων
unguarded by friends
[Meaning] not be-fenced and be-walled with friends because you left them behind deceived.
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1091
Ἐναγῆ φίλων
accursed of friends
[Meaning] he who is never held responsible by his friends for a cause which does not appear, but who is pure. We [the chorus] ask not to make [him] dishonored in words, but to …
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ει
340
Εἰ φίλου χρῄζεις ὑπουργίας
if you need a friend's services
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those with a noble spirit. For when Antisthenes was ill Diogenes said something like this before handing him a dagger.
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κ
1210
Καί τοι σ' οὐκ ἐρῶ γ' ὡς οὐ φιλῶ
and indeed I will not say that I do not love you
That is, I am not hiding my desire.
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157
Χαῖρε φίλον φῶς
farewell dear light
When a woman wants to misbehave and puts out the lamp, this, they say, is what she says. But others [specify] a bad woman, others an old one.
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κ
400
Καρνεάδης
Karneades, Carneades
A Libyan, from Cyrene, the son of
Philokomos;
a
philosopher.
The very man from whom the New Academy originated. They say that when he died, the moon suffered an eclipse and the sun grew …
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69
Ἀβραάμ
Abraham
… they were going to turn out in fact. In this,
Philo,
the Jewish
philosopher,
will be my confirmation via his work Life of the Statesman. About
Philo
it is said
"Philo
platonizes and Plato …
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4084
Ἀρχέλαος
Archelaos, Archelaus
Son of Apollodorus or of Midon; a Milesian, a
philosopher,
called a 'natural
philosopher'
with respect to his
philosophical
school.. [It is on record] that he was the first to introduce natural
philosophy
from …
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η
462
Ἡρακλείδης
Herakleides, Heracleides, Heraclides
[a] Of Oxyrhynchus.
Philosopher;
the son of Sarapion; he was nicknamed Lembus. He lived under Ptolemy VI, who made the treaty with Antiochus. He wrote
philosophical
and other works. [b] Heraclides of Lycia, a …
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ε
2627
Ἐπιστήμη
science, understanding
… character in the acceptance without dissimulation of presentations. Aristotle calls
"philosophical
sciences" physics, logic, ethics and metaphysics. But the understanding of the thing itself [is] also science.
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ε
2424
Ἐπίκτητος
Epiktetos, Epictetus
Of Hierapolis in Phrygia; a
philosopher;
a slave of Epaphroditus, one of the bodyguards of the emperor Nero. Disabled in a leg because of a flux, he lived in Nicopolis, [a city] of [the …
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3504
Εὐθύδημος
Euthydemos, Euthydemus
… character of the city strange and not good for pursuing
philosophy
in. For nowhere were people more addicted to luxury -- jokers and brutes all -- and they were more interested in their linens …
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γ
450
Γρηγόριος
Gregorios, Gregorius, Gregory
… arts of grammar and poetry but excelled even more in
philosophy,
and was an accomplished rhetor. This man wrote many prose works; for his compositions count together approximately 30000 lines. Amongst them are the …
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δ
1214
Διότι
because
[1] The second-century-AD Stoic
philosopher
of that name: fr.4 von Arnim. The most comprehensive study of his work (Elements of Ethics) is that of G. Bastianini and A.A. Long, "Hierocles", in Corpus dei papiri …
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ε
1075
Ἐμφιλοσοφῶ δοτικῇ
I study philosophy in
[Used] with a dative.
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ε
2341
Ἐπιθυμία
appetite
… ethics), with variants noted below. [1] The definition of 'contentiousness'
(philoneikia)
which should now follow is omitted by the Suda. D.L.: 'contentiousness is an appetite concerning a hairesis' (i.e. a matter of partisanship, whether …
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κ
848
Καταφιλοσοφῶν
out-philosophizing
[Used] with a genitive. [Meaning someone] winning by silence.
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291
Ἱλάριος
Hilarios, Hilarius
… of books; nevertheless he had been a late learner in
philosophical
discourse. For as he had been required to devote his life to the public affairs of his fatherland, he had no leisure for …
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η
475
Ἡρακλῆς
Herakles, Heracles, Hercules
Alcmene's son. They give an account of him as a
philosopher
and they depict him wearing the skin of a lion, carrying a cudgel, and possessing three apples; which are the three apples the …
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αι
286
Αἵρεσις
school, sect
… certain type of account. Hippobotus says that there are 9
philosophical
schools and ways of life: Megaric, Eretrian, Cyrenaic, Epicurean, Annicerian, Theodorean, Zenonian (the one also [called] Stoic), Academic, Peripatetic. [He does] not [include] …
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472
Ἡράκλειτος
Herakleitos, Heraclitus
… Bautor, but others [say] of Herakis; from Ephesus; a naturalist
philosopher,
who was nicknamed "Obscure." This man was a disciple of none of the
philosophers,
but he trained himself by natural ability and diligence. …
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χ
568
Χρύσιππος
Chrysippus, Chrysippos
Son of Apollonides; of Soloi or Tarsus. He was a
philosopher,
pupil of Cleanthes, and he led the Stoic school after Cleanthes. He died at the age of 73 because he drank immoderately and …
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3916
Ἀριστοκλῆς
Aristocles, Aristokles
Of Messene in Italy; Peripatetic
philosopher.
He composed On
Philosophy,
10 books; Whether Homer or Plato is more Serious. In these books he catalogues all the
philosophers
and their opinions. He also wrote an …
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α
4361
Ἀττικός
Attikos, Atticus
… [= in] Armenia, and from youth he was taught to
philosophize
by a monk of the Macedonian sect. Then they were prominent in
philosophy
all through Sebasteia from their company with Eustathius, who we …
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1573
Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
… with difficulty the heavy protuberances that weigh down the neck."
Philo
said that two potentialities meet in every soul, a salvific and a destructive. This man did not sense even a dream of the …
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705
Ἀθάνατος
immortal
Philosophers
assign the [word] "immortal" 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 …
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