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Headword: *ba/sanos
Adler number: beta,139
Translated headword: touchstone, test
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
It is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon[1] and Pindar[2] and Sophokles.[3] But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested and written up.[4]
And [there is] a proverb: Test stone, in reference to those investigating things in words or in deeds; since the Lydian stone tests gold.[5]
[Note] that those outside say: "'let the disagreement depend on a verdict, let the verdict test the arguments, let the test set the boundaries on what is necessary, let the boundary be written, let what is written be validated, let what has been validated be corroborated in deeds, and let all quarreling disappear, and let friendship parade back in.' And it is necessary not to reach the verdicts without circumspection."[6]
Greek Original:
*ba/sanos: li/qos e)sti\n h( to\ xrusi/on paratribo/menon dokima/zousa. ou(/tws *)antifw=n kai\ *pi/ndaros kai\ *sofoklh=s. *(uperi/dhs de\ ta\ e)n tai=s basa/nois ei)rhme/na u(po\ tw=n basanizome/nwn kai\ a)nagrafome/nwn basa/nous w)no/mase. kai\ paroimi/a: *ba/sanos li/qos, e)pi\ tw=n e)cetazo/ntwn e)n lo/gois h)\ e)/rgois: paro/son h( *ludi/a li/qos to\n xruso\n dokima/zei. o(/ti oi( e)/cw fasi/n: h( a)mfisbh/thsis kri/sei a)narta/sqw, h( de\ kri/sis tou\s e)le/gxous basanize/tw, h( de\ ba/sanos to\ de/on o(rize/tw, o( de\ o(/ros gegra/fqw, ta\ de\ gegramme/na kurou/sqw, ta\ de\ kurwqe/nta bebaiou/sqw toi=s e)/rgois, kai\ pa=sa a(yimaxi/a oi)xe/sqw, kai\ pa/lin fili/a xoreue/tw. kai\ ou) dei= a)periske/ptws poiei=sqai ta\s kri/seis.
Notes:
The first part of this entry derives from the one in Harpokration s.v., but the citations of Pindar and Sophokles are added.
cf. generally beta 137.
[1] Variously attributed to Antiphon the orator (fr.161 Sauppe, 157 Thalheim) and his namesake the Sophist (fr.88 D.-K.).
[2] Pindar, Pythian 10.67(105).
[3] Sophokles fr. 91a Radt.
[4] Hyperides fr. 5 Jensen.
[5] Apostolius 4.82, etc.
[6] George the Monk (quoting Isidore of Pelusium Epistle 1490), copied from alpha 1766.
Keywords: Christianity; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; law; poetry; proverbs; rhetoric; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 7 June 2003@09:33:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keyword) on 8 June 2003@07:12:24.
David Whitehead (tweaked and expanded notes; more keywords) on 1 July 2011@08:17:53.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 23 August 2013@06:21:59.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 4 February 2016@01:09:40.
Catharine Roth on 4 February 2016@01:27:53.

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