Σχέσις
relationship, condition (of being related), possession
Translated by Marcelo Boeri22 Jan 2004Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning an] impulse, conjunction.1
Relationship [sxe/sis ] is said of relative [pro/s ti ] things; for example, father with respect to son, friend with respect to friend. For these things hold [each other] and are held by each other; this is why [they] are also called 'relationships'.2 The things said by comparison are also with respect to something, such as 'small', 'greater', 'double', 'knowledge', 'perception'.3 And the Theologian [says]: "so that only the relationships are left, deprived of things".4 For we abandon our mother and are abandoned by her. So [we humans] are divided into children and parents. But the divine [is] indivisible.
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Greek original · Adler’s text
Σχέσις· ὁρμή, συνάφεια. Σχέσις ἐπὶ τῶν πρὸς τὶ λέγεται, οἷον πατρὸς πρὸς υἱόν, φίλου πρὸς φίλον· ταῦτα γὰρ καὶ ἔχει καὶ ἔχεται ὑπ' ἀλλήλων· διὸ καὶ σχέσεις προσείρηνται. πρός τι δέ εἰσι καὶ τὰ κατὰ σύγκρισιν λεγόμενα, οἷον μικρόν, μεῖζον, διπλάσιον, καὶ ἐπιστήμη, καὶ αἴσθησις. καὶ ὁ Θεολόγος· ὡς μόνας τὰς σχέσεις λείπεσθαι ὀρφανὰς τῶν πραγμάτων. ἀφίεμεν γὰρ τὴν μητέρα, καὶ ἀφιέμεθα ὑπ' αὐτῆς· ὥστε μερίζεσθαι εἰς υἱοὺς καὶ πατέρας. τὸ δὲ θεῖον ἀμέριστον.
Betacode
*sxe/sis: o(rmh/, suna/feia. *sxe/sis e)pi\ tw=n pro\s ti\ le/getai, oi(=on patro\s pro\s ui(o/n, fi/lou pro\s fi/lon: tau=ta ga\r kai\ e)/xei kai\ e)/xetai u(p' a)llh/lwn: dio\ kai\ sxe/seis prosei/rhntai. pro/s ti de/ ei)si kai\ ta\ kata\ su/gkrisin lego/mena, oi(=on mikro/n, mei=zon, dipla/sion, kai\ e)pisth/mh, kai\ ai)/sqhsis. kai\ o( *qeolo/gos: w(s mo/nas ta\s sxe/seis lei/pesqai o)rfana\s tw=n pragma/twn. a)fi/emen ga\r th\n mhte/ra, kai\ a)fie/meqa u(p' au)th=s: w(/ste meri/zesqai ei)s ui(ou\s kai\ pate/ras. to\ de\ qei=on a)me/riston.
Notes (4)
- 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at Photius sigma900 Theodoridis), and for the second of these glosses cf. the scholia to Lucian, Symposium 23. ↩
- 2The noun
sxe/sis "relationship" is derived from the verbe)/xw "hold." ↩ - 3Perhaps (so Adler) from comment on the Greg. Naz. passage about to be quoted. ↩
- 4Gregory of Nazianzus, De filio 5.8 (PG 36.80b). ↩
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Revision history7 revisions · last 5 Jan 2014
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
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- augmented and modified notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented and renumbered notes — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- modified translation, added keywords, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri