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Headword: *summetri/a
Adler number: sigma,1381
Translated headword: balance, symmetry
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
['Balance' is] ambiguous, just like what is 'in balance'; for things 'in balance' [are] ones being measured by the same measure and ones suitable to each and sufficient, whether in accordance with number or in accordance with size or in accordance with quality, and having a proportion in accordance with its capacities.
Greek Original:
*summetri/a: o(mw/numon, w(/sper kai\ to\ su/mmetron: su/mmetra ga\r ta\ tw=| au)tw=| me/trw| metrou/mena kai\ ta\ oi)kei=a e(ka/stw| kai\ a)rkou=nta, h)\ kata\ to\ plh=qos h)\ kata\ to\ me/geqos h)\ kata\ poio/thta, kai\ kata\ ta\s duna/meis a)na/logon e)/xonta.
Notes:
Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 424.2-5 Wallies (on Topica 139b21-22).
For the (unglossed) headword cf. e.g. iota 732, kappa 250.
Keywords: definition; mathematics; philosophy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 May 2014@06:18:43.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (keyword, status) on 27 May 2014@10:20:53.
David Whitehead (x-refs; raised status) on 28 May 2014@03:01:47.
David Whitehead on 27 May 2016@03:37:56.
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