Τροφή
nourishment
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Translation
Meaning guidance and education. Also [sc. attested is] 'nourished', meaning [something] guided, educated. But sometimes it is also [used] similarly to us. Plato [in ?a passage?] of Republic [writes]: 'with some of the third [parts of the soul] we desire the things related to nourishment and reproduction.'1 For he calls food and drink 'nourishment', and sexual matters 'reproduction'. And in the third [book] of Republic [he writes]: 'and [he] has been nourished by the most wise Chiron'.2 Meaning [he] has been educated; in order to not contradict Homer, who says that Achilles has been 'educated' by Chiron, not that he has been 'nourished'.
On nourishment, search under 'of an equal banquet'.3
On nourishment, search under 'of an equal banquet'.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τροφή· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀγωγὴ καὶ παιδεία. καὶ τραφέν, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀχθέν, παιδευθέν. ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ὁμοίως ἡμῖν. Πλάτων Πολιτείας· ἐπιθυμοῦμεν δ' αὖ τρίτων τινὶ τῶν περὶ τὴν τροφὴν καὶ γέννησιν. τροφὴν μὲν γὰρ βρῶμα καὶ πόμα λέγει, γέννησιν δὲ τὰ ἀφροδίσια. ἐν δὲ τρίτῳ Πολιτείας· καὶ ὑπὸ τῷ σοφωτάτῳ Χείρωνι τεθραμμένος. ἀντὶ τοῦ πεπαιδευμένος· ἵνα μὴ ἐναντιῶνται Ὁμήρῳ, πεπαιδεῦσθαι λέγοντι τὸν Ἀχιλλέα παρὰ Χείρωνι, οὐχὶ τεθράφθαι. ζήτει περὶ τροφῆς ἐν τῷ δαιτὸς ἐΐσης.
Betacode
*trofh/: a)nti\ tou= a)gwgh\ kai\ paidei/a. kai\ trafe/n, a)nti\ tou= a)xqe/n, paideuqe/n. e)ni/ote de\ kai\ o(moi/ws h(mi=n. *pla/twn *politei/as: e)piqumou=men d' au)= tri/twn tini\ tw=n peri\ th\n trofh\n kai\ ge/nnhsin. trofh\n me\n ga\r brw=ma kai\ po/ma le/gei, ge/nnhsin de\ ta\ a)frodi/sia. e)n de\ tri/tw| *politei/as: kai\ u(po\ tw=| sofwta/tw| *xei/rwni teqramme/nos. a)nti\ tou= pepaideume/nos: i(/na mh\ e)nantiw=ntai *(omh/rw|, pepaideu=sqai le/gonti to\n *)axille/a para\ *xei/rwni, ou)xi\ teqra/fqai. zh/tei peri\ trofh=s e)n tw=| daito\s e)i/+shs.
Notes (3)
- The first and principal part of this entry is also in Photius tau507 Theodoridis, q.v. for other references.
- 1See Plato, Republic 4.436A. (Adler's apparatus diffidently proposes 'in [book] 4 of Republic'.) The Platonic passage, which is slightly modified in the lexicographers' version (Plato, more explicitly, says "we desire both the pleasures related to nourishment -- or food - and reproduction"), introduces the issue of the tripartite model of the soul, on which see Price 1995: chapter 2, especially 57-67. ↩
- 2Plato, Republic 3.391C. ↩
- 3See delta 128, delta 132, and lambda 33. The expression 'of an equal banquet' (
daito\s e)i/shs ) is taken from Homer, who uses it a number of times (Iliad 1.468, 1.602, 2.431, 4.48, 7.320, 9.225, 15.95, 23.56, 24.69; 9.225). ↩
References
Price, A.W. Mental Conflict (London & New York: 1995)
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- Translated — Marcelo Boeri