Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for beta,425 in Adler number:
Headword:
*bou/leuma
Adler number: beta,425
Translated headword: decision, resolution
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Bouleuma means] the personal [kind of decision/resolution]. But
boulêma [is] the public [kind].[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "desiring this then, we had difficulty in finding a
boulema that would be good and noble and useful for every task."[2]
*bou/leuma: to\ i)/dion. *bou/lhma de\ to\ dhmo/sion. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: tou=t' ou)=n h(mei=s e)piqumou=ntes, mo/lis eu(/romen w(/ste gene/sqai bou/lhma kalo\n kai\ gennai=on kai\ xrh/simon ei)s a(/pan e)/rgon.
Notes:
[1] Usage on the ground does not bear out this distinction. If anything the reverse is true, since a
probouleuma was a preliminary resolution of the Athenian Council put to the Assembly.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [Plutus] 492-3 (web address 1 below), preceded by comment from the
scholia there.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; ethics; history; law
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 June 2002@00:25:46.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search