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Headword: Aision
Adler number: alphaiota,321
Translated headword: appropriateness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] that which is beautiful, fitting, just.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] u(perai/sion ["excessiveness"], [meaning] that which is beyond due measure, beyond propriety.[2]
Greek Original:
Aision: to kalon, metrion, dikaion. kai Huperaision, to huper tên moiran, huper to prosêkon.
Notes:
See also alphaiota 322.
[1] Similarly in other lexica. From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 24.376, where the headword (neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective) occurs.
[2] See upsilon 258.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 19 March 2003@14:53:17.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 20 March 2003@01:27:09.
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 20 March 2003@03:09:40.
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