Συμμετρία
balance, symmetry
Translated by David Whitehead27 May 2014Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
['Balance' is] ambiguous, just like what is 'in balance'; for things 'in balance' [are] ones being measured by the same measure and ones suitable to each and sufficient, whether in accordance with number or in accordance with size or in accordance with quality, and having a proportion in accordance with its capacities.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Συμμετρία· ὁμώνυμον, ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ σύμμετρον· σύμμετρα γὰρ τὰ τῷ αὐτῷ μέτρῳ μετρούμενα καὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἑκάστῳ καὶ ἀρκοῦντα, ἢ κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος ἢ κατὰ τὸ μέγεθος ἢ κατὰ ποιότητα, καὶ κατὰ τὰς δυνάμεις ἀνάλογον ἔχοντα.
Betacode
*summetri/a: o(mw/numon, w(/sper kai\ to\ su/mmetron: su/mmetra ga\r ta\ tw=| au)tw=| me/trw| metrou/mena kai\ ta\ oi)kei=a e(ka/stw| kai\ a)rkou=nta, h)\ kata\ to\ plh=qos h)\ kata\ to\ me/geqos h)\ kata\ poio/thta, kai\ kata\ ta\s duna/meis a)na/logon e)/xonta.
Notes
- Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 424.2-5 Wallies (on Topica 139b21-22).
For the (unglossed) headword cf. e.g. iota 732, kappa 250.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 27 May 2016
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-refs; raised status — David Whitehead
- keyword, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead