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Headword:
*politiko/s
Adler number: pi,1917
Translated headword: political
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] urbane, with a certain skill.[1]
A gnomic statement: "to join political virtue with priesthood is to spin together the unspinnable."[2]
"The wise man ought to take part in public life [...], for he will be able to restrain wickedness and urge towards virtue".[3]
Greek Original:*politiko/s: a)stei=os, meta/ tinos te/xnhs. gnwmiko/n: politikh\n a)reth\n i(erwsu/nh| suna/ptein, sugklw/qein e)sti\ ta\ a)su/gklwsta. o(/ti politeu/esqai dei= to\n sofo/n. kai\ ga\r kaki/an e)fe/cein, kai\ e)p' a)reth\n parormh=sai i(kano\s e)/stai.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica (references in
Photius pi1023 Theodoridis); and cf. under
alpha 4228.
[2]
Synesius,
Epistle 57 (the speech
Against Andronicus), p. 198c. See the translation of A. Fitzgerald at web address 1.
[3]
Diogenes Laertius 7.121 (Stoic doctrine), abridged, using a verb related to the headword; cf.
pi 1914.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2013@01:39:44.
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