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Headword:
*ei)/rwn
Adler number: epsiloniota,207
Translated headword: dissembler
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who is able to do something while saying he is not able; but an a)lazw/n ["braggart"] is the opposite to this,[1] an arrogant man; [sc. that is the] distinction.
"He did not see him exceeding the truth in deed or word, either tending to the somewhat dissembling or the somewhat boastful."[2]
Greek Original:*ei)/rwn: o( duna/menos me\n poih=sai/ ti, le/gwn de\ mh\ du/nasqai: a)lazw\n de\ o( tou/tw| e)nanti/os, o( u(perh/fanos: diafora/. ou)k ei)=den au)to\n parekbai/nonta to\ a)lhqe\s e)/rgw| h)\ lo/gw|, h)/toi pro\s to\ ei)rwnikw/teron h)\ a)lazone/steron.
Notes:
For this headword see already
epsiloniota 206.
[1] cf. scholion on
Plato,
Republic 337A, where
Thrasymachus speaks of Socratic irony (web address 1). For
a)lazw/n see
alpha 1057,
alpha 1058.
[2] A quotation -- again more briefly under
eta 174 -- variously attributed to
Iamblichus (
Babyloniaca fr.31 Habrich) and to
Damascius (fr.23 Asmus; rejected as Damascian by Adler but still fr.46 Zintzen).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 June 2005@21:28:54.
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