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Headword:
Aidoios
Adler number: alphaiota,89
Translated headword: venerable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one worthy of reverence and respect.[1]
Damascius [says]: "Isidore was awestruck at the sight of
Proclus, venerable and marvelous to see; he thought he was seeing in him the very face of true philosophy."[2]
Greek Original:Aidoios: ho aidous kai entropês axios. Damaskios: ho de Isidôros exeplêtteto horôn ton Proklon aidoion te kai deinon idein, auto dokôn ekeino horan to philosophias tôi onti prosôpon.
Notes:
[1] Similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon, and in the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 3.172, where the headword occurs.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 248 Zintzen (and Asmus). For Isidore, see
iota 631; for
Proclus, see
pi 2473.
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 May 2003@00:46:45.
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