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Headword:
*(/adrhsis
Adler number: alpha,534
Translated headword: maturity
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] ripeness, inaction.
Greek Original:*(/adrhsis: h( a(dro/asis, h( a)praci/a.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras; and Adler reports a comparable one in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (452). Otherwise, the sole occurrence of the headword is in one of Basil of
Caesarea's
Homilies on the Hexaemeron (6.8: accusative case).
This abstract noun derives from the adjective
a(dro/s (
alpha 533): see Lampe s.v. [Not in LSJ] However, the second gloss here implicitly derives it from
a)- (sic: with smooth breathing) and
dra/w. In philosophical contexts
a)praci/a refers to the argument that the skeptic -- insofar as he will never accept a criterion and will never be able to decide what to do -- makes life impossible by leading the agent towards inactivity. See
Plutarch,
Against Colotes 1108D, 1122A;
Sextus Empiricus,
Outlines of Pyrrhonism 1.23-24.
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 April 2000@09:41:17.
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