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Headword:
*talantoume/nhn
Adler number: tau,35
Translated headword: being balanced
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Plato in
Timaeus [writes]: "but being balanced unevenly, the earth, although being shaken by them [sc. the forms of Being, Space, and Becoming], also motivates these others to shake in turn."[1] [sc. The word is used] metaphorically from beam-scales -- since the beam scale is called a balance. Also [sc. attested is the verb]
u(pertalanta=n ["to overbalance"], an outweighing.[2]
Greek Original:*talantoume/nhn: *pla/twn e)n *timai/w|: th\n de\ gh=n talantoume/nhn a)nwma/lws sei/esqai me\n u(p' e)kei/nwn, kinoume/nhn de\ au)= pa/lin e)kei=na sei/ein. metaforikw=s a)po\ tw=n zugw=n: e)pei\ to\ zugo\n ta/lanton le/getai. kai\ u(pertalanta=n, to\ u(perbarei=n.
Notes:
The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is the present middle/passive participle, feminine accusative singular, of the contract verb
talanta/w,
I balance, sway, oscillate; see generally LSJ s.v., and cognates at
tau 31,
tau 32,
tau 33,
tau 34, and
tau 36.
[1]
Plato,
Timaeus 52E (web address 1), on the original cause of motion in the cosmos; Guthrie, p. 271.
[2] Same entry in
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon tau1003b8, and
Photius,
Lexicon tau21 Theodoridis (though it is the Suda compiler who adds the name '
Plato'). See also
Etymologicum Magnum 744.12-7 (Kallierges), and cf. ps.-
Zonaras 1714.10. Adler also cites
Etymologicum Genuinum. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms F lacks the end of the gloss,
to\ u(perbarei=n (
an outweighing), and the next two entries.]
W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy: The Later Plato and the Academy, vol. 5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 18 November 2011@02:57:46.
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