Τάλαντα
scales
Translated by Catharine Roth25 Oct 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the yokes, and the uprights.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τάλαντα· τὰ ζυγά, καὶ τὰ ἱστάμενα.
Betacode
*ta/lanta: ta\ zuga/, kai\ ta\ i(sta/mena.
Notes
- The headword is a neuter noun in the nominative/accusative plural: cf. tau 33, tau 34, and related words at tau 32, tau 35, tau 36. Same glossing in the Synagoge (tau19), Photius (tau17 Theodoridis), similar in Hesychius tau52, Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 22.209 (where the headword occurs, of Zeus weighing the fates of men).
Linked from3 entries
- τ34ΤάλαντονtalentAs Diodorus says in On Weights, it is 60 m[i]nai, and the m[i]na [is] 100 drachmas, and the drachma [is] 6 obols, and the obol [is] 6 coppers, and the copper [is] 7 lepta. But the talent [is] that which is now called…
- τ35Ταλαντουμένηνbeing balancedPlato in Timaeus [writes]: "but being balanced unevenly, the earth, although being shaken by them [sc. the forms of Being, Space, and Becoming], also motivates these others to shake in turn." [sc. The word is used]…
- τ36Ταλάντωσιςweighing[Meaning] stêsis, measuring.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 20 Apr 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth