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Headword: *kna/ptw
Adler number: kappa,1852
Translated headword: I card
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
When someone came to Xenocrates the philosopher to study philosophy, although he knew neither geometry nor astronomy, [Xenocrates] said: "here with me [ = in my school] wool is not carded".
Greek Original:
*kna/ptw. pro\s *cenokra/thn to\n filo/sofon e)lqw/n tis filosofh=sai, mh/te gewmetrikh\n mh/te a)stronomi/an memaqhkw/s, tou=ton ei)pei=n: par' e)moi\ po/kos ou) kna/ptetai.
Notes:
From Diogenes Laertius 4.10. On Xenocrates, successor of Plato after Speusippus, see xi 42, pi 1707.
The carding of wool in preparation for spinning is used as a metaphor for preliminary studies. For the verb kna/ptw, see also epsilon 510.
Keywords: biography; imagery; mathematics; philosophy; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 January 2007@21:01:59.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented tr; more keywords) on 9 January 2007@03:16:58.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 4 March 2013@08:06:47.
Catharine Roth (deleted link) on 23 September 2019@01:06:12.
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