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Headword:
Atopias
pleôn
pragma
Adler number: alpha,4374
Translated headword: a matter full of absurdity
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [full of] a marvel.[1]
"With Chosroes enticing him to come to this point of absurdity."[2]
Meaning of irrationality, of thoughtlessness.
And elsewhere: "someone would wonder at the absurdity of the man, who at any rate, aside from other things, has dared to say even these things."[3]
And elsewhere: "when water appeared, it was, to him who had not discovered it, equally [produced] by absurdity."[4] That is, [by] wickedness.
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective]
atopon ["absurd"] meaning irrational, amazing, paradoxical, strange, wicked, knavish; and that which does not have a place. Also that which is unbearable, such as not to be able to be pinned down.[5]
Aristophanes [says]: "some strange desire presses upon me, which has worn away at me."[6]
And elsewhere: "[he] having suspected some absurdity."[7]
Greek Original:Atopias pleôn pragma: anti tou thaumatos. deleasantos auton es touto atopias elthein Chosroou. anti tou alogias, aboulias. kai authis: thaumasai an tis tên atopian tou andros, hos ge chôris allôn tetolmêke kai tauta legein. kai authis: epei de anephanê hudôr, exisou tôi mê heurethenti archên hupo atopias ên. toutesti kakias. kai Atopon anti tou alogon, thaumasion, paradoxon, xenon, kakon, mochthêron: kai ho mê echei topon. kai to anupomonêton, hoion ho mê esti topasai. Aristophanês: atopos d' enkeitai moi tis pothos, hos me diaknaisas echei. kai authis: atopian hupotopasas tina.
Notes:
[1]
Phrynichus,
Praeparatio sophistica fr.273 (again at
nu 222). The phrase "full of absurdity" (without "a matter") comes from
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1372, where "of a marvel" is a scholiast's gloss.
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable
[4]
Cassius Dio 75.2.2.
[5] cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Phaedo 60B (and to
Republic 405D), where this word occurs.
[6]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 956-7 (web address 1 below); cf.
delta 586.
[7] Quotation unidentifiable.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 June 2002@11:29:26.
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