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Headword: *)/aqroisma
Adler number: alpha,763
Translated headword: aggregate, assemblage, gathering
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The [noun that means a] heap.
Greek Original:
*)/aqroisma: to\ sw/reuma.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. The headword is a neuter noun, here in the nominative/accusative singular, derived from a)qroi/zw (alpha 760, alpha 761).
As LSJ's sense II (web address 1), this is a technical term in Epicurus (epsilon 2404) to designate the composite or the whole structure of soul and body (see the significant passage of Letter to Herodotus 64-66 with the comments of Annas 1992, 148-151 and, more recently, Everson, 1999, 545-553; see also Lucretius, 3. 370-395).
References:
Annas, J. Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London 1992)
Everson, S., 'Epicurean Psychology', in Algra, K., Barnes, J., Mansfeld, J., Schofield, M. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge 1999)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 December 1999@02:42:27.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Added note and link.) on 5 August 2000@17:25:43.
Marcelo Boeri (Augmented note; added bibliography and headword.) on 20 May 2001@18:53:59.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 17 February 2003@08:25:01.
David Whitehead (betacoding and other cosmetics) on 22 January 2012@06:01:00.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 24 January 2012@21:52:09.
David Whitehead on 3 May 2015@03:38:44.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 3 May 2015@23:10:01.

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