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Headword:
*)ana/logon
Adler number: alpha,1943
Translated headword: proportion, proportionate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The definition of proportion is this: it has a size proportionate to the reciprocal things which display the same
a)nqufai/resis --
Aristotle's word for a corresponding diminution. Those things which have proportion to one another also are said to be similar to one another.[1]
But
a)na/logon [also] means similarly.
And elsewhere: "the soldiers [were] noble to see, and were proportionate to their equivalent status."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related adverb]
a)nalo/gws, [meaning] equally. Also [sc. attested is the comparative]
a)nalogw/teron, [meaning] that which is loftier, wiser, more analogical.
*)ana/logon: a)nalo/gou o(rismo/s e)stin ou(=tos: a)na/logon e)/xei mege/qh pro\s a)/llhla, w(=n h( au)th\ a)nqufai/resis. o( de\ *)aristote/lhs th\n a)nqufai/resin a)ntanai/resin ei)/rhke. ta\ d' a)na/logon e)/xonta pro\s a)/llhla kai\ o(moi/ws e)/xein pro\s a)/llhla le/getai. *)ana/logon de\ a)nti\ tou= o(moi/ws. kai\ au)=qis: oi( de\ stratiw=tai gennai=oi o)fqh=nai, kai\ tw=| i)/sw| a)ciw/mati a)nalogou=ntes. kai\ *)analo/gws, i)/sws. kai\ *)analogw/teron, to\ u(yhlo/teron, to\ sofw/teron, to\ a)nalogikw/teron.
Notes:
[1] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 545.15-18.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2001@21:09:29.
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