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Headword:
Axiôma
Adler number: alpha,2825
Translated headword: purpose, axiom, reputation
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] intent. "What is the purpose for which you call?".[1]
"Not to reject paternal authority, nor to dishonour the axiom of
Plato".[2] That is, intent.
"Arkesilaos was very axiomatic, and concise".[3]
Axiôma: boulêma. ti d' esti taxiôm', eph' hôi kaleis. mê diôtheisthai tên patrikên epitaxin, mêde to tou Platônos axiôma atimazein. toutesti boulêma. ho de Arkesilaos ên axiômatikôtatos kai sunêgmenos.
Notes:
cf.
alpha 2826,
alpha 2827.
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 1459 (web address 1 below), with the gloss from the
scholia there.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.250 Zintzen (150 Asmus). Its second half is also in
Photius,
Bibl. 346a. The meaning of
a)ci/wma here, despite the confident gloss, is not certain; possibly, instead, "reputation/dignity" (see generally LSJ s.v.). Zintzen says the "paternal authority" was that of
Proclus (
pi 2473).
[3]
Diogenes Laertius 4.33.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; philosophy; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 November 2000@12:09:07.
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