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Headword: *eu)/logon a)ci/wma
Adler number: epsilon,3569
Translated headword: probable assumption, reasonable proposition
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one which has more ways of being true [than not]; like "I will be alive tomorrow."[1]
"A discussion once occurred between Kleanthes the philosopher and Ptolemy the king about the wise man's judgment. Someone said that he would not have good judgment. Wanting to test him, the king ordered waxen pomegranates to be set before them. When the wise man was deceived, the king cried out that he had assented to a false appearance. The wise man made a well-aimed reply to him, saying that he had assented in this way, not that they are pomegranates, but that it is probable that they are pomegranates, but the appearance which gives direct apprehension differs from the probable [appearance]."[2]
Greek Original:
*eu)/logon a)ci/wma: to\ plei/onas a)forma\s e)/xon ei)s to\ a)lhqe\s ei)=nai: oi(=on, biw/somai au)/rion. lo/gou pote\ genome/nou pro\s *klea/nqhn to\n filo/sofon kai\ *ptolemai=on to\n basile/a peri\ tou= doca/sein to\n sofo/n, kai/ tinos ei)po/ntos w(s ou) doca/sei, boulo/menos o( basileu\s e)le/gcai au)to/n, khri/nas r(oa\s e)ke/leuse parateqh=nai. tou= de\ sofou= a)pathqe/ntos a)nebo/hsen o( basileu\s yeudei= sugkatateqei=sqai au)to\n fantasi/a|. pro\s o(\n o( sofo\s eu)sto/xws a)pekri/nato, ei)pw\n ou(/tw sugkatateqei=sqai, ou)x o(/ti r(oai/ ei)sin, a)ll' o(/ti eu)/logo/n e)sti r(oa\s au)ta\s ei)=nai: diafe/rein de\ th\n katalhptikh\n fantasi/an tou= eu)lo/gou.
Notes:
[1] Diogenes Laertius 7.76 (a Stoic definition in the life of Zeno).
[2] Diogenes Laertius 7.177 -- but here misread: the philosopher in question is not Cleanthes (kappa 1711) but his pupil Sphaerus (SVF 1.139-142 von Arnim: no Suda entry of his own, and indeed ignored throughout the lexicon). The 'Ptolemy' in the anecdote is identified by D.L. as pi 3039, P. IV Philopator (OCD(4) s.v. wrongly says P. II Philadelphus). As to Sphaerus himself, D.L. twice calls him 'of Bosporus', though in Plutarch, Cleomenes 2.2-3 he is 'of Borysthenes' (a.k.a. Olbia, in the present-day Ukraine). The second of these designations might simply be a more precise version of the first. In any event, Plutarch in that passage asserts that Sphaerus visited Sparta and made an intellectual impact on its young men, notably the one who in 235 BCE (at the age of c.24) would become the reforming Agiad King Cleomenes III. How far, if at all, the teachings of Sphaerus can be supposed to underpin Cleomenes' measures has been much debated: for brief discussion and bibliography (and an overall position of prudent scepticism) see Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth, Hellenistic and Roman Sparta (edn.2, London & New York 2002) chap.4.
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; ethics; food; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 February 2008@19:59:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 3 February 2008@04:30:48.
David Whitehead on 7 November 2012@07:33:41.
Catharine Roth (added a keyword) on 10 November 2012@00:58:13.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics; expanded n.2) on 8 March 2016@04:11:49.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 8 March 2016@17:10:15.
David Whitehead (further expansion of n.2) on 9 March 2016@03:21:11.

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