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Headword:
*megalopreph/s
Adler number: mu,369
Translated headword: magnificent
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] spectacular.[1]
Or the man burdened by the greatness of expenditures, whereas a liberal [benefactor is] he [focused] on apportion and thrift.[2]
Eunapius [writes]: "nor, otherwise, is magnificence in lifestyle disposed to venture into battles."[3]
"Magnificence differs from liberality, insofar as it is concerned with the greatness of expenditures, whereas liberality exercises the expenditures by apportion."[4]
*megalopreph/s: megalofanh/s. h)\ o( e)pi\ mege/qei a)nalwma/twn ponou/menos, e)leuqe/rios de\ o( e)pi\ ta\ sunh/qh kai\ eu)telh=. *eu)na/pios: ou)/te a)/llws to\ megaloprepe\s kata\ th\n di/aitan e)n tai=s ma/xais e)sti\ filoki/ndunon. diafe/rei de\ megalopre/peia e)leuqerio/thtos o(/ti h( me\n e)n mege/qei a)nalwma/twn e)stin, h( de\ e)leuqerio/ths peri\ ta\ sunh/qh a)nalw/mata e)nergei=.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly elsewhere: the
Synagoge,
Photius'
Lexicon (mu167 Theodoridis),
Anecdota Graeca (Bachmann),
Hesychius mu473; cf. a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus, and
Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.482.4.
[2] Apparently (so Adler) reformulating the subsequent quotation from Alexander of
Aphrodisias: see n. 4 below.
[3]
Eunapius fr. 98 FHG (4.54). The fragment is unplaced (Blockley, p. 150).
[4] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 121.32-122.2 (cf. Van Ophuijsen, p. 131). Alexander's comment concerns
Aristotle,
Topics 108a37.
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983
J.M. Van Ophuijsen, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle's "Topics 1", Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001
Keywords: Christianity; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; historiography; military affairs; philosophy; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 10 November 2007@23:02:30.
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