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Headword:
Deisidaimonia
Adler number: delta,368
Translated headword: fear of the gods, piety, superstition
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] discretion in regard to the divine, timidity, doubt concerning the faith.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective]
deisidai/mwn ["god-fearing"], as if afraid. The Apostle [says]: "men of
Athens, I see that you are rather god-fearing." Meaning pious.[2]
And
Crito in the
Getica says: "the kings of the Getae, inducing in them fear of the gods and concord by means of deceit and magic are already aiming at great things."[3]
And
Polybius of
Megalopolis says concerning
Timaeus: "he demonstrated great cleverness and audacity in accusing his neighbors, but in his own denials he is full of dreams and marvels and unreliable stories and in short of ignoble superstition and old wives' tales."[4]
"
Asclepiodotus was holy and pious and at first he had become so scrupulous and cautious that he did not dare even to offer sacrifice or to hear any secret word; for [he thought] that these were not appropriate for fleshly beings but only for Olympus and those who are believed to live on Olympus."[5]
Piety happens to be the mean between impiety and superstition.[6]
Untimely free speech is superstition.[7]
"For as Pyrrhus was stealing the money of Persephone he said jokingly, 'Untimely piety is superstition, and gathering up wealth without effort is good counsel'."[8]
Greek Original:Deisidaimonia: eulabeia peri to theion, deilia, amphibolia peri tên pistin. kai Deisidaimôn, hoionei dedoikôs. ho Apostolos: andres Athênaioi, hôs deisidaimonesterous humas theôrô. anti tou theosebeis. kai Kritôn en tois Getikois phêsin: hoi de basileis tôn Getôn apatêi kai goêteiai deisidaimonian kai homonoian autois energasamenoi megalôn êdê ephientai. kai Polubios ho Megalopolitês peri Timaiou phêsin: houtos gar en men tais tôn pelas katêgoriais pollên epiphainei deinotêta kai tolman, en de tais idiais apophasesin enupniôn kai teratôn kai muthôn apithanôn kai sullêbdên deisidaimonias agennous kai terateias gunaikôdous esti plêrês. hoti Asklêpiodotos hosios ên kai eusebês kai ta men prôta deisidaimôn egegonei kai eulabês houtôs sphodra hôste mête thuein anechesthai mête tinos aporrêtou mêdenos akouein: ou gar einai tauta tês geneseôs axia, alla tou Olumpou kai tôn en Olumpôi diazên hêgoumenôn. hoti hê eusebeia mesê tunchanei asebeias kai deisidaimonias. hoti deisidaimonia hê akairos parrêsia. ho Purros gar sulôn ta chrêmata tês Phersephonês episkôpsas ephê: hê akairos theosebeia deisidaimonia esti, kai to sullexai plouton aponon euboulia.
Notes:
[1] cf.
delta 369.
[2]
Acts of the Apostles 17.22.
[3] FGrH 200 F7.
[4]
Polybius 12.24.
[5]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.202 Zintzen (119 Asmus).
[6] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Didymus Caecus,
On Genesis 27.
[7] Quotation unidentifiable.
[8] Appian,
Samnitica 12.4; cf.
pi 3232.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 May 2005@15:56:47.
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