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Headword:
*kefalismo/s
Adler number: kappa,1451
Translated headword: multiplication-table
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "
Aristotle calls 'multiplication-tables' the products of the first numbers up to ten.[1] For through exercise with them, the products of the latter with [sc. numbers] larger but similar to them are explained by analogy: for, from twice two is four, one realizes that twice twenty is forty, and that twenty times twenty is four hundred, and that two hundred times twenty is four thousand, and similarly one after the other."[2]
*kefalismo/s: kefalismou\s le/gei *)aristote/lhs tou\s tw=n prw/twn a)riqmw=n tw=n me/xri deka/dos pollaplasiasmou/s. dia\ ga\r th=s peri\ tou/twn gumnasi/as kai\ oi( tw=n u(ste/rwn kai\ meizo/nwn kai\ o(moi/wn au)toi=s pollaplasiasmoi\ kata\ meta/basin gnwri/zontai: a)po\ ga\r tou= di\s du/o te/ssara, gnwri/zetai o( di\s ei)/kosi tessara/konta, kai\ o( ei)kosa/kis ei)/kosi tetrako/sia: kai\ o( diakosionta/kis ei)/kosi tetrakisxi/lia, kai\ e(ch=s o(moi/ws.
Notes:
The headword is a masculine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular. In the quotation given, it appears in the accusative plural. For its precise sense, as translated here, see LSJ s.v.
[1]
Aristotle,
Topics 163b25-8.
[2] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics 586.3-8 Wallies (Heath, p. 93). The Suda's unconventional spelling of
two hundred follows Alexander; cf. Smyth ยง347 (web address 1).
T. Heath, Mathematics in Aristotle, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mathematics; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 8 August 2008@04:04:48.
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