[Meaning something that is] plain. "For we know nothing clear, but we are floundering."[1]
And elsewhere: "they made the search with a view to clarity."[2]
[Note] that sight is clearer than hearing; and see under 'five senses'.[3]
*trane/s: safe/s. i)/smen ga\r ou)de\n trane/s, a)ll' a)lw/meqa. kai\ au)=qis: e)s to\ trane\s th\n e)/reunan e)poih/santo. o(/ti traneste/ra h( o)/yis th=s a)koh=s: kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| ai)sqh/seis pe/nte.
The headword, extracted from the first quotation given (but also illustrated by the second), is neuter singular of this adjective; cf.
Hesychius tau1245,
Synagoge tau235,
Photius tau416 Theodoridis (identifying tragedy as the source: see next note), and, more remotely,
Hesychius tau1248.
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 23 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.5.11; more fully in
phi 194. Here the neuter singular form of the adjective ('clear') is used as an abstract substantive ('clarity'), as is normal in Greek.
[3] From
alphaiota 326, where the quotation excerpted here is part of a longer quotation from John
Philoponus'
Commentary on Aristotle's De anima.
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