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Headword:
Thôpes
Adler number: theta,432
Translated headword: flatterers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A term applicable to] those words which, with lies and marvels, verge on fawning.[1] "[...] and [they] proffering flattering and deceitful words".[2]
The nominative [form is] qw/y, [genitive] qwpo/s.
"And thus he used to attend to what is right and fitting for philosophy, but not in a flattering and vulgar way."[3]
Greek Original:Thôpes: hoi meta pseudous kai thaumasmou prosiontes epi kolakeiai logoi. thôpas te kai apatêlous proteinontes logous. hê eutheia Thôps, thôpos. kai houtôs men therapeue ta dikaia kai philosophiai preponta, all' ou ton thôpa tropon kai banauson.
Notes:
cf. generally
theta 431,
theta 433,
theta 434,
theta 435.
[1] From
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon, likewise glossing this nominative plural headword. Probably generated by
Plato,
Theaetetus 175E, where the accusative plural is used of
logoi.
[2] Adler tentatively attributed this quotation to
Damascius, and it is admitted as such into Zintzen's edition (as fr. 259). However, it is actually a close approximation (with participle, here, for finite verb) of
Procopius,
On the Wars of Justinian 2.30.7 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II pp.XCIII-XVIV. During the Lazic War (541-562) in 548 CE, the Persian commander of the garrison at
Petra (on the Black Sea coast, modern-day Georgia; cf.
alpha 906 note) deceives the Byzantine general Dagisthaios (cf.
delta 3) into thinking the surrender of the fortress is imminent; cf. Kaldellis (140).
[3]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 276 Zintzen (157 Asmus).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 28 February 2008@23:38:53.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified tr; augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 29 February 2008@04:01:10.
David Whitehead (expanded and modified n.2; more keywords) on 22 March 2011@11:00:01.
David Whitehead (further expanded n.2) on 12 October 2011@03:21:25.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 12 October 2011@03:24:50.
David Whitehead on 4 January 2013@08:03:44.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 23 December 2014@22:55:39.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, keyword, and link) on 28 February 2024@10:56:23.
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