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Headword:
Atheon
Adler number: alpha,716
Translated headword: godless, sacrilegious
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "It is sacrilegious not to preserve the immortality of the soul and exalt it to the godlike and unite it to the divine with invulnerable and indissoluble bonds, but by contrast to drag down and suppress what is divine in us into some earthly and sinful and gigantic or titanic prison."[1]
Greek Original:Atheon: atheon esti to mê tên athanasian tês psuchês diasôizein kai anagein eis to theoeides kai sunagein autên pros to theion arrêktois kai alutois desmois, ê tanantia toutôn, to kataspan kai kathel- kein to en hêmin theion eis to gêgenes kai alitêrion, kai gigantôdes ê titanikon desmôtêrion.
Notes:
The unglossed headword, neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Tentatively attributed by Adler to
Damascius; and it is now
Life of Isidore fr. 32 Zintzen, 19 Athanassiadi.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 November 2000@20:38:15.
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