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Headword:
Analogon
Adler number: alpha,1943
Translated headword: proportion, proportionate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The definition of proportion is this: it has a size proportionate to the reciprocal things which display the same
a)nqufai/resis --
Aristotle's word for a corresponding diminution. Those things which have proportion to one another also are said to be similar to one another.[1]
But
a)na/logon [also] means similarly.
And elsewhere: "the soldiers [were] noble to see, and were proportionate to their equivalent status."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related adverb]
a)nalo/gws, [meaning] equally. Also [sc. attested is the comparative]
a)nalogw/teron, [meaning] that which is loftier, wiser, more analogical.
Analogon: analogou horismos estin houtos: analogon echei megethê pros allêla, hôn hê autê anthuphairesis. ho de Aristotelês tên anthuphairesin antanairesin eirêke. ta d' analogon echonta pros allêla kai homoiôs echein pros allêla legetai. Analogon de anti tou homoiôs. kai authis: hoi de stratiôtai gennaioi ophthênai, kai tôi isôi axiômati analogountes. kai Analogôs, isôs. kai Analogôteron, to hupsêloteron, to sophôteron, to analogikôteron.
Notes:
[1] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 545.15-18.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2001@21:09:29.
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