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Headword:
*)ameta/ptwton
Adler number: alpha,1558
Translated headword: unchanging
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Properly it is [something] said of bodies, those which do not alter in strength or change in property. But as a metaphor knowledge is said to be unchanging.[1]
Greek Original:*)ameta/ptwton: kuri/ws e)pi\ swma/twn le/getai, tw=n di' i)sxu\n mh\ trepome/nwn h)\ dia\ i)dio/thta mh\ metaballo/ntwn. kata\ metafora\n de\ le/getai h( e)pisth/mh a)meta/ptwtos.
Notes:
Neuter singular of this adjective. For its full range of meanings, beyond the one at issue here, see LSJ s.v.
From Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentary on Aristotle's Topica 427.19-20, 14. See further, next note.
[1] Said by
Aristotle,
Topics 139b32-33. [Those who maintain that knowledge is unchanging (and not as a metaphor) are the Stoics (see
Plutarch,
On common conceptions 1085 A-B;
Stobaeus,
Eclogae 2.73.16 Wachsmuth).]
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 July 2000@12:13:05.
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