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Headword: Noun ton xenon
Adler number: nu,523
Translated headword: mind (is) the guest
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those overseeing things.[1]
[Note] that Anaxagoras the sophist was called "Mind", because he said that matter and mind guard everything.[2]
Greek Original:
Noun ton xenon: epi tôn huphorômenôn tina. hoti Anaxagoras ho sophistês Nous epekaleito, epeidê hulên kai noun pantôn phrourein eipen.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in Diogenianus (6.85) and other paroemiographers. The headword phrase itself, in the accusative case, must be quoted from somewhere but is unidentifiable.
[2] From alpha 1981.
Keywords: daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; poetry; proverbs; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 July 2003@00:49:27.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 July 2003@04:10:41.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 17 June 2013@10:00:25.
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