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Headword:
Chrêmatismos
Adler number: chi,486
Translated headword: business, money-making
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Everyone was assigned the task of doing business."[1] That is, administration.
And elsewhere: "receiving the ambassadors readily, he did business with them."[2] Meaning he took counsel, he had conversation.
And elsewhere: "[he] having established himself on a sound financial footing [...]."[3]
[Note] that
Damascius says, "doing business" [that is, the gathering of money] "seemed in no way to those in the underworld like a help, nor did luxury nor these gussied-up honors which politicians and those who are blessed by many as fortunate men (who in truth are unfortunate) esteem more than anything else."[4]
Chrêmatismos. pasi de sunetatteto poiêsasthai tous chrêmatismous. toutesti tas dioikêseis. kai authis: ho de tous presbeutas hetoimôs dexamenos echrêmatize toutois. anti tou ekoinologeito, logous edidou. kai authis: en chrêmatismôi dikaiôi de katastas. hoti phêsi Damaskios, ton chrêmatismon [toutesti tên tôn chrêmatôn sullogên] mêden phaneisthai tois en haidou pros boêtheian, oude tên truphên, oude tas poluaratous tautas timas, hôn ouden protimôsin hoi politikoi kai sphodra hupo tôn pollôn makarizomenoi hôs eudaimones, ontes ge têi alêtheiai kakodaimones.
Notes:
[1] Quotation (already at
sigma 1515) unidentifiable.
[2] Appian in
Anecdota Graeca (ed. Bekker) 179.21. This quotation does not use the headword, but a form of the verb
xrhmati/zw; see also
chi 481.
[3]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 189 Zintzen (216 Asmus); quoted more fully at
alpha 4174.
[4]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 343 Zintzen (123 Asmus).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 April 2008@04:00:45.
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