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Headword:
Charizesthai
Adler number: chi,110
Translated headword: to indulge, to please, to pleasure
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In common usage [this verb is used] as the majority [use it], but specifically [it is used] in reference to sex acts, or for submitting to someone in word. "Whether it is necessary to please you".[1] And elsewhere: "so that I would please you."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] "[they] indulging", [meaning they] giving favor. "They cut off his head, indulging a most unpleasant and diseased temperament."[3]
Greek Original:Charizesthai: koinôs men hôs hoi polloi, idiôs de epi aphrodisiôn, ê hupo tou en logôi hupokataklinesthai. eite soi dei charizesthai. kai palin: hina soi charisômai. kai Charizomenoi, charin tithemenoi. hoi de tên kephalên autou apetemon, acharistôi nosêmati tôi thumôi charizomenoi.
Notes:
The first part of this entry reproduces one in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon. See also
Etymologicum Genuinum,
Etymologicum Magnum 807.19, and the
scholia to
Plato,
Phaedrus 227C (web address 1 below).
[1]
Plato,
Parmenides 137A, has
o(/mws de\ dei= ga\r xari/zesqai ("For it is necessary, nevertheless, to be obliging"). See web address 2 below.
[2]
Plato,
Theages 123A, has
i(/na soi xarisw/meqa; see web address 3 below.
[3] Parts of
Aelian fr. 210a and 210b Domingo-Forasté (209 Hercher); cf.
alpha 4673 which quotes this passage at length, also
kappa 1001.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 March 2008@13:03:53.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 March 2008@06:47:13.
Catharine Roth (updated reference, added cross-reference, upgraded links, raised status) on 22 October 2012@02:12:15.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 8 November 2013@05:00:08.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 21 December 2014@19:58:05.
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