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Headword:
*de/ltos
Adler number: delta,202
Translated headword: writing-tablet
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] little writing-board, little sketch-tablet, draft-tablet.[1]
Zeno of Citium[2] "used to compare his own successor
Cleanthes[3] to writing tablets overlaid with hard wax, which are hard to write on but which keep what is written."[4]
*de/ltos: pinaki/dion, titla/rion, sxeda/rion. *zh/nwn o( *kitieu\s *klea/nqhn to\n au(tou= dia/doxon a)fwmoi/ou tai=s sklhrokh/rois de/ltois, ai(\ mo/lis me\n gra/fontai, diathrou=si de\ ta\ grafe/nta.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; and cf. (respectively)
pi 1611,
tau 690 (end),
sigma 1769.
[2] The founder of the Stoic school (335-263 BCE):
zeta 79.
[3]
Zeno's successor as head of the Stoa (331-232 BCE):
kappa 1711.
[4] A close approximation of
Diogenes Laertius 7.37, in the context of a Stoic doxography. Cf.
sigma 638, and see also
Plutarch,
Moralia 47E (= SVF 1.464).
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 17 November 2000@20:44:11.
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