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Headword:
Chrêma
Adler number: chi,474
Translated headword: thing; matter
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] affair.
"A great and marvelous thing [is] a man [whose] mind is duly suited by his constitution from the outset to whatever he sets out to do within [the bounds] of human limitations."[1]
And elsewhere: "[one could] compare the thing to a great herd of cows." The phrase [is] about barbarian troop-marshalling.[2]
Herodotus [writes]: "the matter of the storm was unbearable."[3]
Aristophanes [writes]: "how long the matter of nights is!"[4] [This means] the length, the stretch. It was customary for the Attic [speakers] to use a logical sequence, like "a horse is a rare thing", "a woman is an evil thing". And [they apply this] to other things similarly, however they wish to exaggerate.
"He was not rich in things, nor did he have as many [things] as would have been sufficient for another to lead a life of bare necessity."[5]
Greek Original:Chrêma: pragma. mega ti chrêma kai thaumasion, anêr kai psuchê deontôs harmostheisa kata tên ex archês sustasin, pros ho ti an hormêsêi tôn ex archês ergôn. kai authis: eikazein an boôn agelêi megistêi to chrêma. peri barbarikês parataxeôs ho logos. Hêrodotos: ên te tou cheimônos chrêma aphorêton. Aristophanês: to chrêma tôn nuktôn hoson. to megethos, to ektama. ethos de tois Attikois epagôgêi chrêsthai, hoion hippos spanion ti chrêma: gunê kakon ti chrêma. kai epi tôn allôn homoiôs, hôn an exairein boulôntai. ho de chrêmatôn ouk ên euporos, oude hosa an exêrkesen heterôi pros tên tou anankaiou biou diagôgên, oude tosauta kektêmenos.
Notes:
For this headword (and primary gloss) see already
chi 474.
[1]
Polybius 9.22.6 (web address 1), where
a)nqrwpi/nwn e)/rgwn has become the Suda's
e)c a)rxh=s e)/rgwn, an obvious scribal error. (Incorrectly attributed to
Damascius, as
Life of Isidore fr. 285 Asmus; cf. n. 5 below.)
[2] Despite this helpful gloss, the quotation is unidentifiable.
[3]
Herodotus 7.188.3 (web address 2).
[4]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 2 (web address 3); what follows in this entry is from the
scholia to this line. See also
alpha 3035.
[5]
Aelian fr. 315a Domingo-Forasté (318 Hercher). Or, "rich in money." (Formerly attributed to
Damascius, as
Life of Isidore fr. 167 Asmus.)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 April 2008@18:04:20.
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