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Headword:
*megalo/frwn
Adler number: mu,371
Translated headword: great-minded, high-minded
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] great-spirited.[1]
"Great-spirited is someone with a state of mind that places himself above all things happening, the same way for things trivial and serious."[2] Amongst the men of old very great wealth is also called this.[3]
Greek Original:*megalo/frwn: megalo/yuxos. *megalo/yuxos de/ e)stin o( e(/cin e)/xwn u(pera/nw e(auto\n tiqe/nai pa/ntwn tw=n sumbaino/ntwn koinh=| fau/lwn te kai\ spoudai/wn. le/getai de\ kai\ me/gistos plou=tos para\ toi=s palaioi=s.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Hesychius mu477, the
Synagoge,
Photius'
Lexicon (mu168 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; Latte in his edition of
Hesychius associates it with
4 Maccabees 6:5
LXX. Oddly, the remainder of the entry takes up the glossing word, not the headword.
[2] Stoic doctrine from
Diogenes Laertius 7.93.
[3] Someone characterised as great-spirited is explicitly supposed to be indifferent about riches in
Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics 1124a, and there is no other allusion to this meaning on record.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 1 May 2009@21:58:34.
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