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Headword: Haplôi logôi
Adler number: alpha,3238
Translated headword: in a simple statement
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] without qualification.
Also[1] Aristotle says a(plw=s "simply," that which is true when said without any qualification. For the Ethiopian being in some respect white -- for he is white in respect to the teeth -- is no longer also white simply. That which needs a qualification in order to be true is not true simply. For the Ethiopian is not white, because [this statement is] without qualification. But when "in some respect" has been added, it becomes true, for he is white in respect to the teeth. Furthermore, certain people [are] good "in some respect".
Similarly it is said, "not [in] the simple manner". Meaning what parauti/ka ["immediately"] [means] in the ancients.[2]
And elsewhere: "for they did not simply make some speeches, but a lofty platform was raised, and on it they put images of Nero."[3]
Greek Original:
Haplôi logôi: tôi chôris prosthêkês. kai Haplôs para Aristotelei legetai, ho chôris prosthêkês legomenon alêthes estin. ho gar Aithiops pêi leukos ôn: kata gar tous odontas: ouketi kai haplôs esti leukos. ho de deitai prosthêkês pros to alêthes einai, touto ouk estin haplôs. ho gar Aithiops ouk esti leukos, dioti chôris prosthêkês. prostethentos de tou kata ti, alêthes ginetai. kata gar tous odontas. alla kai spoudaioi tines kata ti. legetai de kai houtôs, ou ton haploun tropon. anti tou parautika para tois palaiois. kai authis: oude gar haplôs logous tinas epoiêsanto, alla kai bêma hupsêlon êgerthê, kai ep' autou eikones tou Nerônos etethêsan.
Notes:
[1] The source of this paragraph is Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentary on Aristotle's Topica 214.12-18.
[2] Perhaps, Adler suggests, from a scholion on Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 231, where "in a simple manner" occurs (web address 1).
[3] Cassius Dio 62.23.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: art history; biography; comedy; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; medicine; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 July 2000@23:36:37.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; added keywords) on 17 March 2001@09:42:39.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 April 2012@07:43:13.
Catharine Roth (fixed link) on 2 April 2012@00:43:20.
David Whitehead (typo) on 2 April 2012@03:15:03.
David Whitehead (more keywords; coding) on 20 August 2015@04:30:27.

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