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Headword: Politikos
Adler number: pi,1917
Translated headword: political
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who is] urbane, with a certain skill.[1]
A gnomic statement: "to join political virtue with priesthood is to spin together the unspinnable."[2]
"The wise man ought to take part in public life [...], for he will be able to restrain wickedness and urge towards virtue".[3]
Greek Original:
Politikos: asteios, meta tinos technês. gnômikon: politikên aretên hierôsunêi sunaptein, sunklôthein esti ta asunklôsta. hoti politeuesthai dei ton sophon. kai gar kakian ephexein, kai ep' aretên parormêsai hikanos estai.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica (references in Photius pi1023 Theodoridis); and cf. under alpha 4228.
[2] Synesius, Epistle 57 (the speech Against Andronicus), p. 198c. See the translation of A. Fitzgerald at web address 1.
[3] Diogenes Laertius 7.121 (Stoic doctrine), abridged, using a verb related to the headword; cf. pi 1914.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; politics; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2013@01:39:44.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaks) on 2 January 2013@21:52:34.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 3 January 2013@05:41:47.
David Whitehead on 8 October 2013@06:15:12.
Catharine Roth (added a keyword) on 28 June 2014@23:51:21.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note, added a link) on 16 November 2023@18:13:21.

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