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Headword:
Anankaia
trapeza
Adler number: alpha,1825
Translated headword: necessary table, needy table
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a cheap and poor one.[1]
And
Sophocles says: "O lord Ajax, there is no evil greater for men than this necessary fortune."[2] He is speaking of what is "necessary" in two senses, sometimes in reference to those things which by nature have a consequence, as if we were to say "fire [is] necessarily yellow and milk white", and sometimes in reference to something which happens out of necessity, as [
Sophocles] here says "than this necessary fortune" of life, that is, than this misfortune.
And
Iamblichus [writes]: "I sent you this chain, for it is not necessary to us."[3]
Anankaia trapeza: hê eutelês kai penichra. kai Sophoklês phêsin: ô despot' Aian, tês anankaias tuchês ouk estin ouden meizon anthrôpois kakon. diplôs phêsi to anankaion, pote men epi tôn kata phusin akolouthian tina echontôn, hôs ei eipoimen, anankaiôs to pur xanthon kai to gala leukon, pote de epi tou ex anankês ginomenou, hôs kai nun anankaias tuchês tês bias phêsi, toutesti tês dustuchias. kai Iamblichos: tên de halusin, ou gar estin hêmin anankaia, prosepempsa soi.
Notes:
[1] The headword phrase, not illustrated by either of the quotations given, sounds proverbial; cf.
alpha 4543.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 485-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the
scholia there.
[3]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 59 Habrich.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; imagery; philosophy; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2001@20:59:33.
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