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Headword:
*)anagkai/a
tra/peza
Adler number: alpha,1825
Translated headword: necessary table, needy table
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a cheap and poor one.[1]
And
Sophocles says: "O lord Ajax, there is no evil greater for men than this necessary fortune."[2] He is speaking of what is "necessary" in two senses, sometimes in reference to those things which by nature have a consequence, as if we were to say "fire [is] necessarily yellow and milk white", and sometimes in reference to something which happens out of necessity, as [
Sophocles] here says "than this necessary fortune" of life, that is, than this misfortune.
And
Iamblichus [writes]: "I sent you this chain, for it is not necessary to us."[3]
*)anagkai/a tra/peza: h( eu)telh\s kai\ penixra/. kai\ *sofoklh=s fhsi/n: w)= de/spot' *ai)=an, th=s a)nagkai/as tu/xhs ou)k e)/stin ou)de\n mei=zon a)nqrw/pois kako/n. diplw=s fhsi to\ a)nagkai=on, pote\ me\n e)pi\ tw=n kata\ fu/sin a)kolouqi/an tina\ e)xo/ntwn, w(s ei) ei)/poimen, a)nagkai/ws to\ pu=r canqo\n kai\ to\ ga/la leuko/n, pote\ de\ e)pi\ tou= e)c a)na/gkhs ginome/nou, w(s kai\ nu=n a)nagkai/as tu/xhs th=s bi/as fh/si, toute/sti th=s dustuxi/as. kai\ *)ia/mblixos: th\n de\ a(/lusin, ou) ga/r e)stin h(mi=n a)nagkai/a, prose/pemya/ soi.
Notes:
[1] The headword phrase, not illustrated by either of the quotations given, sounds proverbial; cf.
alpha 4543.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 485-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the
scholia there.
[3]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 59 Habrich.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; imagery; philosophy; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2001@20:59:33.
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