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Headword:
Diatribê
Adler number: delta,797
Translated headword: school, amusement, pastime
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] place where some people learn. Or a season [or: opportunity] according to which we turn back on something. Or a philosophical discourse.[1]
It also means pursuit and business, way of living, mode of life, purpose out of which we are about to spend time regarding [certain] matters.
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "if no particular amusement [
diatribh/] shall appear in life".[2]
Also [it means] leisure.
"But the pastime and the leisureliness of the approach became voluntary for him, both for the sake of what is undisciplined and for the sake of forethought toward what is going to result."[3]
Greek Original:Diatribê: topos en hôi tines manthanousin. ê kairos kath' hon anastrephometha peri ti. ê dialexis philosophos. sêmainei de kai to epitêdeuma kai to ascholêma, diaitan, diagôgên, prophasin aph' hês mellomen peri ta pragmata diatribein. Aristophanês Ploutôi: ei mê phaneitai diatribê tis tôi biôi. kai hê argia. egineto de autôi hekousios hê diatribê kai tês ephodou hê scholaiotês, tou te ataktou heneka kai tou es to apobêsomenon promêthous.
Notes:
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 4 December 2003@13:17:43.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified aspects of translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 5 December 2003@03:59:34.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 2 July 2012@09:14:04.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 30 October 2015@07:45:33.
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