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Headword: Auxê
Adler number: alpha,4452
Translated headword: increase
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] growing.[1]
'To be nourished' and 'to be increased' are spoken of in the following ways. Those things that are nourished in each of their parts are also increased. But the things that seem to be increased as a result of addition are not increased in each of their parts, since 'increase' is not used to describe such cases but 'addition'. For if on top of a heap of grain I put another grain, the addition has happened not in all the parts of the heap, but on the one where the addition happened.[2]
This is also said in the case of stones; just as if someone were to say that the fire is increased when more wood is added. Thus also are metals increased when the liquid substance of which they consist solidifies from without, even when this changes to the same substance from the whole by means of the natural power in the earth.[3]
Thus 'to be increased' is employed in the case of things that have souls and have parts.
Greek Original:
Auxê: hê blastêsis. trephesthai kai auxesthai legetai ekeina, ta kata pan morion trephomena kai auxomena. ta de kata prosthesin auxesthai dokounta ou kata pan morion heautôn auxontai, dio oude auxêsis ep' ekeinôn legetai, alla prosthesis. ean gar epi sôron sitou prosthêsô heteron siton, ou di' holôn tôn moriôn tou sôrou hê prosthesis gegonen, all' eph' henos, kath' ho hê prosthesis egeneto. legetai de touto kai epi lithôn: hôsper an ei kai to pur auxesthai legoi tis xulôn pleionôn prostithemenôn. houtô kai ta metalla auxetai, hugras ousias exôthen peripageisês, ex hês sunestêkasi, kai tautês metaballousês epi tên autên ousian hupo tês en têi gêi phusikês dunameôs ek tou pantos. hôste epi tôn empsuchôn kai echontôn moria legetai to auxesthai.
Notes:
For this headword see already alpha 4451
[1] cf. Hesychius s.v. au)=cis.
[2] John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 234.11-16 Hayduck.
[3] ib. 275.21-25.
Keywords: botany; definition; food; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: William Hutton on 26 March 2002@00:29:27.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added notes) on 28 August 2002@01:04:12.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 28 August 2002@01:09:26.
David Whitehead (expanded refs; cosmetics) on 15 July 2007@09:58:08.
David Whitehead (x-ref; tweaking) on 1 May 2012@03:34:05.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 10 September 2015@11:12:08.
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