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Headword:
*(hrai/+skos
Adler number: eta,451
Translated headword: Heraiskos, Heraiscus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An Egyptian man; this man was very clever at understanding [things], but not a powerful fighter for the truth, nor [keen] at tracing or pursuing the roads which proceed out from this. For this man, on the contrary, had been allotted good fortune.[1]
Greek Original:*(hrai/+skos, a)nh\r *ai)gu/ptios: ou(=tos h)=n me\n sunei=nai deino/tatos, a)gwnisth\s de\ ou)k i)sxuro\s a)po\ th=s a)lhqei/as, ou)de\ ta\s e)/cw ferou/sas a)po\ tau/ths o(dou\s a)nixneu=sai kai\ diecelqei=n. ou(=tos ga\r e)s tou)nanti/on e)keklh/rwto th\n eu)moiri/an.
Notes:
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.114 Asmus, Zintzen 182, Athanassiadi 76D; again at
sigma 1536. For Heraiskos see already
eta 450.
[1] Athanassiadi understands
eu)moiri/a as "being blessed at birth with intuition"; cf.
epsilon 3586.
Reference:
Damascius, The Philosophical History. Text with translation and notes by P. Athanassiadi. Athens: Apamea Cultural Association 1999.
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 December 2000@09:36:28.
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