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Headword:
Pleonexia
Adler number: pi,1726
Translated headword: greed, acquisitiveness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the orators they applied [this noun] and the [related verb]
plen, each of them, not only in reference to those who think themselves worthy to have more, contrary to justice, but also in reference to the better, when someone has more of the good than others [have].[1]
Sophocles [writes]: "o wealth and tyranny and art surpassing art in a life of much rivalry, how great envy is maintained among you!"[2]
Pleonexia: para tois rhêtorsin ou monon epi tôn para to dikaion axiountôn pleon echein kai to pleonektein, alla kai epi tou beltionos hekateron autôn etaxan, hotan tou agathou pleon echêi tis heterôn. Sophoklês: ô ploute kai turanni kai technê technês huperpherousa tôi poluzêlôi biôi hosos par' humin ho phthonos phulassetai.
Notes:
See also
pi 1725, also
pi 1724.
[1] Similar note in Bekker,
Anecdota Graeca 1.298.11; Wentzel attributed it to a rhetorical source.
[2]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 380-382 (web address 1). [Adler reports that mss AV omit
u(perfe/rousa tw=| poluzh/lw| bi/w| here, and suggests that other manuscripts have restored the words from the quotation at
pi 1960.]
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; economics; ethics; philosophy; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 September 2012@01:18:49.
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