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Headword:
Aplastos
Adler number: alpha,3224
Translated headword: unfashioned, unfeigned
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] true, without deceit.[1]
"And rushing upon them together sweet dignity and unfeigned modesty informed the philosopher sufficiently and already made the young man known to him."[2]
But a)/plastos [also means] large. "Him a great destiny holds." That is, madness.[3]
Greek Original:Aplastos: alêthinos, adolos. kai hama autois epitheousa semnotês hêdeia kai aplastos aidôs epetrechen hikanôs ton philosophon kai êdê gnôrimon epoiei autôi ton neaniskon. Aplastos de hê megalê. ton ais' aplastos ischei. toutestin hê mania.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha2434 Theodoridis. The headword is taken to be quoted from the
Septuagint (
Genesis 25.27).
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 80 Zintzen =
Photius,
Bibl. p.341 b 31.
[3]
Sophocles,
Ajax 256, with scholion; again at
alphaiota 315. The older manuscripts read
a)/platos "unapproachable, terrible" (see web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; mythology; philosophy; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 July 2000@22:37:55.
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