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Headword:
*)agaqou=
*dai/monos
Adler number: alpha,122
Translated headword: of the Good Spirit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The ancients had a custom after dinner of drinking 'of the Good Spirit', by taking an extra quaff of unmixed [wine]; and they call this 'of the Good Spirit',[1] but when they are ready to depart, 'of Zeus the Savior'. And this is what they called the second [day] of the month.[2] But there was also in
Thebes a hero-shrine of the Good Spirit.
But others say that the first drinking vessel was called this.[3]
Aristotle composed a book
On the Good in which he delineated the unwritten doctrines of
Plato.
Aristotle mentions the composition in the first [book] of
On the Soul, calling it
On Philosophy.[4]
*)agaqou= *dai/monos: e)/qos ei)=xon oi( palaioi\ meta\ to\ dei=pnon pi/nein *)agaqou= *dai/monos, e)pirrofou=ntes a)/kraton, kai\ tou=to le/gein *)agaqou= *dai/monos, xwri/zesqai de\ me/llontes, *dio\s *swth=ros. kai\ h(me/ran de\ th\n deute/ran tou= mhno\s ou(/tws e)ka/loun. kai\ e)n *qh/bais de\ h)=n h(rw=|on *)agaqou= *dai/monos. a)/lloi de/ fasi to\ prw=ton poth/rion ou(/tw le/gesqai. o(/ti peri\ ta)gaqou= bibli/on sunta/cas *)aristote/lhs, ta\s a)gra/fous tou= *pla/twnos do/cas e)n au)tw=| katata/ttei. kai\ me/mnhtai tou= sunta/gmatos *)aristote/lhs e)n tw=| prw/tw| peri\ yuxh=s, e)ponoma/zwn au)to\ peri\ filosofi/as.
Notes:
The first paragraph here is paralleled (in general terms) in
Photius and other lexica, and also in the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 300, where this genitive-case phrase occurs.
See also
alpha 966.
[1] cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 15.675B-C (15.17 Kaibel), where the G.S. is equated, not necessarily correctly, with Dionysos.
[2] cf.
Hesychius s.v., and see generally J.D. Mikalson,
The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year (Princeton 1975) 15 for this and other evidence and modern discussion (not confined to
Athens).
[3] From
alpha 966.
[4]
Aristotle,
de anima 404b19; cf. Alexander of
Aphrodisias, Commentaries on
Aristotle's Topics 75.32-35.
Translated by: William Hutton on 1 April 2001@00:18:44.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 25 April 2002@03:46:05.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 December 2011@07:23:37.
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