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Headword:
*ei)kai=on
Adler number: epsiloniota,71
Translated headword: random, aimless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] vain, useless.[1]
"The care of the spirit [
dai/mwn] in each of us [is] to keep it pure from passion and frivolity and dissatisfaction with what comes [to us] from god and men."[2]
And elsewhere: "he asserts that
Plato says nothing random."[3]
*ei)kai=on: ma/taion, a)nwfele/s. qerapei/a de\ tou= e)n e(ka/stw| h(mi=n dai/monos, tou=ton kaqaro\n pa/qous diathrei=n kai\ ei)kaio/thtos kai\ dusaresth/sews th=s pro\s ta\ e)k qeou= kai\ a)nqrw/pwn gino/mena. kai\ au)=qis: mhde\n ga\r ei)kai=on *pla/twn le/gein fhsi/n.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is neuter nominative/accusative singular of
ei)kai=os; cf.
epsiloniota 74.
[2] Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations 2.13.2; more fully at
delta 119.
[3] Tentatively attributed by Adler to
Damascius; now
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 387 Zintzen.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 April 2005@00:30:42.
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