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Headword:
Gnômê
Adler number: gamma,339
Translated headword: judgement, opinion, proposition
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a decision and a choice.
"To anyone who was around his judgement was god-like, but his departure [was] into the gods." Arrian [sc. writes this].[1]
A
gnômê [is] also a subject for speculation.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "early this morning he was robbed of a great proposition by a lizard."[2] And the same [author uses this word for] "public assembly".[3]
Gnômê: hê boulê kai hê proairesis. hotôi theia men hê gnômê perionti, eis theous de hê metachôrêsis. Arrianos. Gnômê kai to skemma. Aristophanês Nephelais: prôiên de gnômên megalên aphêirethên hup' askalabôtou. kai tên dêmêgorian ho autos.
Notes:
[1] Arrian,
Affairs after Alexander fr.10 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F134). Presumably about Alexander himself; cf.
Anabasis 7.27.3.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 169-170 (web address 1 below).
[3] See
gamma 336.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; constitution; definition; historiography; history; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 July 2002@13:42:33.
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