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Headword:
*)/aqroisma
Adler number: alpha,763
Translated headword: aggregate, assemblage, gathering
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [noun that means a] heap.
Greek Original:*)/aqroisma: to\ sw/reuma.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword is a neuter noun, here in the nominative/accusative singular, derived from
a)qroi/zw (
alpha 760,
alpha 761).
As LSJ's sense II (web address 1), this is a technical term in
Epicurus (
epsilon 2404) to designate the composite or the whole structure of soul and body (see the significant passage of
Letter to Herodotus 64-66 with the comments of Annas 1992, 148-151 and, more recently, Everson, 1999, 545-553; see also Lucretius, 3. 370-395).
References:
Annas, J. Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London 1992)
Everson, S., 'Epicurean Psychology', in Algra, K., Barnes, J., Mansfeld, J., Schofield, M. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge 1999)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 December 1999@02:42:27.
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