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Headword:
*)/artia
Adler number: alpha,4036
Translated headword: even, exact
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning things that are] fitted, complete, sound. These things are also said to be "joined" [
a)/rmena].[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb]
a)rtia/zein, [meaning] to play at odds or evens [
a)/rtia]. "We play at odds and evens with staters."
Aristophanes [sc. says this].[2]
Also [sc. attested is the adverb]
a)rtia/kis ["an even number of times"].[3]
[An example of] an "even" number is 32, but an "even-odd" [
a)rtiope/rittos] [number is one which] when halved [turns] straight into an odd number, like 14. For the half of this [is] seven.[4]
*)/artia: h(rmosme/na, te/leia, u(gih=. le/getai de\ tau=ta kai\ a)/rmena. kai\ *)artia/zein, to\ pai/zein a)/rtia h)\ peritta/. stath=rsi d' a)rtia/zomen. *)aristofa/nhs. kai\ *)artia/kis. *)/artios a)riqmo\s o( lb#, *)artiope/rittos de\ o( dixotomou/menos eu)qe/ws ei)s perisso\n a)riqmo/n, oi(=on o( tw=n id#. tou/tou ga\r to\ h(/misu e(pta/.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 5.326, where this neuter plural occurs.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 816, abridged (web address 1 below); cf.
sigma 1009.
[3] First in
Plato,
Parmenides 143E and 144A.
[4] cf.
pi 1278 perissa/ "odd."
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mathematics; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 August 2001@04:40:07.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 17 August 2001@06:29:56.
Catharine Roth (inserted betacode, added cross-reference) on 3 June 2004@02:38:12.
Catharine Roth (changed keyword) on 29 September 2005@11:20:44.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 13 April 2012@06:12:27.
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