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Headword:
Metriopathein
Adler number: mu,811
Translated headword: to feel moderately, to treat gently
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to accept whatever happens for one's part, to excuse.[1]
Appian [writes]: "Claudius Marcellus brought an enemy city to his side and forgave [them], receiving a talent of silver. But when the Nergobriges learned from him about this moderation, they were amazed."[2]
And elsewhere: "for the Medes, the love of war is rekindled, [they] not accepting to take a moderate attitude towards the recent successes."[3]
Aristotle says that the wise man feels moderately, but is not lacking in feeling.[4]
Metriopathein: ek merous ta pathê katadechesthai, sunginôskein. Appianos: Klaudios Markellos polin tôn enantiôn parestêsato kai sungnômên edôke arguriou talanta labôn. Nergobriges d' autou peri têsde tês metriopatheias puthomenoi ethaumazon. kai authis: tois Mêdois anazôpuroutai to philopolemon metriophronein epi tois enanchos ou chôrêsantes epiteugmasin. Aristotelês legei ton sophon metriopathê men einai, apathê de mê einai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu372 Theodoridis. The headword is taken to be quoted from the
New Testament:
Hebrews 5.2.
[2] Appian,
Iberica 48 (abridged), with the related noun
metriopa/qeia; cf.
nu 253.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.15.9, quoted with a different compound verb
metriofronei=n (but the text of Theophylact has
metriopaqei=n); cf.
alpha 3132.
[4] As Adler noted, this is not found in the extant works of
Aristotle. Compare merely Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentary on Aristotle's Topica 239.6 (
metriopa/qeia is preferable to
a)pa/qeia). However, the actual source of this statement is
Diogenes Laertius 5.31; see Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXV.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 October 2009@00:10:20.
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