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Headword:
Atoma
Adler number: alpha,4373
Translated headword: atoms
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning things that are] most/very subtle.[1]
Those things that cannot be cut because of their utmost subtlety.[2]
The Greeks also called bodies "atomic" and partless[3] due to their imperviousness or extreme smallness, since they are unable to admit cut or division. Thus they call the most subtle and smallest bodies, [the ones] which, thrown in through its enlightenings, the sun in itself shows swaying upwards and downwards.[4]
Greek Original:Atoma: leptotata. ta mê dunamena dia tên akran leptotêta temnesthai. hoti atoma ônomasan hoi Hellênes kai amerê sômata dia to apathes ê smikron agan, hate mê tomên ê diairesin dexasthai dunamena. houtô de kalousi ta leptotata kai smikrotata sômata, ha dia tôn phôtagôgôn eisballomena ho hêlios deiknusin en heautôi anô kai katô pallomena.
Notes:
The headword is neuter plural.
[1] =
Synagoge alpha1060;
Photius,
Lexicon alpha3103.
[2] Similar glossing in
Hesychius and (according to Adler) the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[3] See already
alpha 1554.
[4] George the Monk,
Chronicon 81.11-16.
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 13 August 2001@16:40:25.
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