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Headword: Tetragônos
Adler number: tau,386
Translated headword: four-square
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] well-built, firmly-based.
Damascius [writes]: "he was august and elegant in every respect, and set up four-square without blame, to speak according to Simonides' saying; consequently not even the slanderers who opposed him could deny this, that the man was entirely worthy of admiration."
Greek Original:
Tetragônos: eustathês, hedraios. Damaskios: semnos de ên kai euschêmôn ta panta kai tetragônos aneu psogou tetagmenos, hôs phanai kata ton Simônidên: hôste mêde tous epanastantas autôi sukophantas toutous arneisthai, to mê ou pantêi axiagaston einai ton anthrôpon.
Note:
Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.332 Zintzen (298 Asmus); cf. Photius, Bibliotheca 352a 34, b 2. The phrase of Simonides (fr.5) comes from Plato, Protagoras 339B.
Keywords: architecture; biography; definition; ethics; imagery; philosophy; poetry; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 November 2005@22:00:33.
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David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 30 November 2005@03:55:51.
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