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Headword: Archôn chrotios
Adler number: alpha,4120
Translated headword: ruler in the flesh
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] supreme-ruler, leader. "Time [is the] ruler of pains."[1]
[Someone says that][2] it is necessary for the ruler to perform all his duties for the sake of the ruled. But Hegias[3] deemed it right not only for the ruler to have the best interests of the ruled at heart, but also for them to have his [best interests at heart], since the impulse toward good in everything is stronger toward itself than toward something else. But Isidoros says that the ruler qua ruler does [not][4] heed a ruler, even if he has some concern for himself, as if he himself were one of the ruled that need to have their interests protected. For strictly speaking a ruler has need of nothing. But qua person, a practitioner of an art might need [something]; for instance a doctor might need the doctor's art if he got sick. But the doctor's art would never get sick; nor indeed would the doctor standing in line with the doctor's art, nor the ruler who is seen to be in line with the science of ruling. One must try to say more rationally that things are not only said to be directed toward something but also are directed toward each other: the ruler is both said to be and is directed toward to the ruled, and the ruled are both said to be and are directed toward the ruler; so that if ruling benefits the ruled at all, its benefit will be directed toward those for whom ruling is intended.
Apis the Egyptian is said to have been the first to bring the doctor's art to Greece.[5]
Greek Original:
Archôn chrotios: archêgos, proêgos. archôn chronos pêmatôn. ton archonta tôn archomenôn heineka panta diaprattesthai dein. ho de Hêgias êxiou ou monon ton archonta tôn archomenôn tithesthai pronoian, alla kai autou pros ekeinôn. hekastôi gar einai tên ephesin tou agathou pros heauto mallon ê pros heteron. ho de Isidôros phêsin, ton archonta hêi archontos akouein, ei de kai heautou phrontida poioito, hôs henos ge kai heautou tôn archomenôn kai deomenôn pronoias. ton gar toi archonta tôi akribei logôi deisthai mêdenos: hêi de anthrôpos, ho technitês deoito an, hoion iatros tês iatrikês, ei nosêseien. iatrikê de ouk an pote nosêseien: ou toinun oude ho kata tên iatrikên hestôs iatros, ou toinun oude ho kata tên archikên epistêmên archôn horômenos. logikôteron de eipein epicheirêteon, hôs ta pros ti ou legetai monon, alla kai esti pros allêla. archôn ara pros archomenous kai archomenos pros archonta kai legontai kai eisin, hôste ei ti to archein ôphelei tous archomenous, ôphelêsei pros hous kai to archein probeblêtai. hoti tên iatrikên Apis ho Aiguptios prôtos eis tên Hellada metakomisai legetai.
Notes:
"In the flesh" is my best guess for what appears to be an adjective xro/tios, again in the brief cross-reference at iota 67. (cf. xrotih=s in Greek Anthology 15.35.2). An emendation to xro/nios would at least connect it with the quotation from Sophocles. (Adler passes no comment.)
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 934-935, with scholion.
[2] Here begins Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 364 Zintzen (227 Asmus).
[3] See eta 60, from the same source.
[4] Adler's apparatus briefly indicates what her predecessors did here: Aemilius Portus wanted this negative, Bernhardy a lacuna resulting from homoioteleuton.
[5] Quoted from gamma 416; see also alpha 3217.
Keywords: biography; chronology; definition; ethics; geography; imagery; medicine; mythology; philosophy; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 March 2002@16:50:15.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 26 August 2002@00:49:28.
David Whitehead (rearranged and augmented notes; cosmetics) on 26 August 2002@03:56:10.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 24 April 2012@03:25:03.
David Whitehead (coding; cosmetics) on 1 September 2015@04:35:03.

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