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Headword:
Alêthes
Adler number: alpha,1172
Translated headword: truly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning really.[1]
They think it right to give the first [syllable] an acute accent, when what is said in a question means [something like] this, such as "really, truly."[2]
"Truly, o child of the rustic goddess?"
Aeschylus says to
Euripides, "do you [call] me these things, o gossip-collector, and beggar-maker, and rag-stitcher?"[3]
But "truth" [is] the opposite of falsehood.[4]
"Truth is the leader of both divine and human things."[5]
Alêthes: anti tou ontôs. axiousi de oxunein tên prôtên, hotan touto dêloi to en eperôtêsei legomenon, hoion ontôs, alêthôs. alêthes ô pai tês arouraias theou; Aischulos phêsi pros Euripidên: su dê me taut', ô stômuliosulektadê, kai ptôchopoie, kai rhakiosurraptadê. alêthes de to antidiastellomenon tôi pseudei. alêtheia de esti theiôn te kai anthrôpinôn hêgemôn.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 840; see further below.
[2] cf.
Photius (
Lexicon pi935 Theodoridis) and elsewhere. On the shift of accent to the first syllable, see LSJ s.v. A.III.2.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 840-842 (web address 1); cf.
sigma 1153,
rho 28.
[4] Also in ps.-
Zonaras. This sentence returns to the normal accentuation of the adjective, on the final syllable.
[5] Perhaps
Damascius (so Adler:
Life of Isidore fr. 69a Zintzen); cf. in any event
Plato,
Laws 730B-C, "Truth heads the list of all things good, for gods and men alike" (tr. T.J. Saunders). Zintzen suggests that Isidore or
Damascius may have been imitating this passage, and notes a similarity with fr. 69 (
alpha 834). He also compares
Iamblichus,
Protrepticus 94.8.
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Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 May 2000@21:30:05.
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