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Headword: *eu)/kleia
Adler number: epsilon,3538
Translated headword: glory
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] fame/reputation.[1]
"To consider that glory is not at all a good, but to seek after it adequately, for the sake of other people's benefit, like the philosophers who decree that one should behave in an unseemly manner [...] that all modesty and emulation of better character has departed from this life".[2]
And elsewhere Josephus [says]: "[he] having put life second to glory."[3]
Greek Original:
*eu)/kleia: h( do/ca. h(gei=sqai me\n a)gaqo\n ou)de\n ei)=nai th\n eu)/kleian, a)ntipoiei=sqai mh\n au)th=s i(kanw=s, w)felei/as e(/neka tw=n a)/llwn a)nqrw/pwn, w(s tw=nge filoso/fwn doca/ntwn a)sxhmonei=n, oi)/xesqai e)k tou= bi/ou pa=san ai)dw= kai\ zh/lwsin tou= a)mei/nonos h)/qous. kai\ au)=qis *)iw/shpos: qe/menos eu)klei/as e)n deute/rw| to\ zh=|n.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; and cf. epsilon 3537.
[2] Tentatively attributed by Adler to Damascius; now Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 385 Zintzen (omitted by Athanassiadi).
[3] Josephus, Jewish War 1.43-44 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history; philosophy
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 18 March 2008@23:27:50.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation and link, set status) on 19 March 2008@01:17:20.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 March 2008@04:37:19.
David Whitehead on 7 November 2012@05:16:41.
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 4 February 2018@00:54:26.

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