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Headword:
Eirôn
Adler number: epsiloniota,207
Translated headword: dissembler
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who is able to do something while saying he is not able; but an a)lazw/n ["braggart"] is the opposite to this,[1] an arrogant man; [sc. that is the] distinction.
"He did not see him exceeding the truth in deed or word, either tending to the somewhat dissembling or the somewhat boastful."[2]
Greek Original:Eirôn: ho dunamenos men poiêsai ti, legôn de mê dunasthai: alazôn de ho toutôi enantios, ho huperêphanos: diaphora. ouk eiden auton parekbainonta to alêthes ergôi ê logôi, êtoi pros to eirônikôteron ê alazonesteron.
Notes:
For this headword see already
epsiloniota 206.
[1] cf. scholion on
Plato,
Republic 337A, where
Thrasymachus speaks of Socratic irony (web address 1). For
a)lazw/n see
alpha 1057,
alpha 1058.
[2] A quotation -- again more briefly under
eta 174 -- variously attributed to
Iamblichus (
Babyloniaca fr.31 Habrich) and to
Damascius (fr.23 Asmus; rejected as Damascian by Adler but still fr.46 Zintzen).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 June 2005@21:28:54.
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