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Headword: Archê
Adler number: alpha,4091
Translated headword: authority, rule
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. There is] the natural [kind], as of a lion among beasts and of eagles among birds; and the elected [kind], as with a king of men.[1]
Marinus says: "the authority became ours, not authority alone, nor [was it] half of everything as the proverb says.[2] [It was] itself the whole of everything."[3]
Greek Original:
Archê, hê men phusikê, hôs leontos en zôiois kai aetôn en orneois: hê de cheirotonêtê, hôs epi basileôs anthrôpôn. Marinos phêsi: gegone de hêmin hê archê ouk archê monon, oude kata tên paroimian hêmisu tou pantos. auto de holon to pan.
Notes:
See also alpha 4092, alpha 4093.
[1] The source of this material (also in ps.-Zonaras) is unidentifiable.
[2] In the proverb arkhe is used in the sense of "beginning": "well begun is half done." See alpha 4097.
[3] Marinus, Life of Proclus 34.
Keywords: biography; constitution; daily life; definition; philosophy; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 April 2001@15:44:51.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Altered wording of one sentence, raised status) on 16 April 2001@11:13:32.
Catharine Roth (added note, cross-reference, keyword) on 21 February 2002@13:51:31.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 25 August 2002@10:42:40.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 14 June 2007@07:40:55.
David Whitehead (another note) on 23 April 2012@06:20:56.
David Whitehead on 1 September 2015@03:21:25.
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