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Headword:
*)/oyis
Adler number: omicron,1082
Translated headword: sight
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] seeing.[1]
Also contemplation.
"So the things before the city shone with silver and bronze, and nothing was more delightful for them or appeared more terrible to the enemies than that sight".[2]
[Note] that sight distinguishes the twelve colors:[3] white and black, and the intermediates, [i.e.] yellow and grey, pale, red, blue, purple, bright, dark. Hearing distinguishes a high and low sound, smelling distinguishes good and bad odors, and the intermediates: rotten and wet [odors], whether melted or smoky. Taste distinguishes sweet and bitter flavors, and the intermediates. For there are seven flavors: sweet, bitter, sharp, acrid, astringent (?), spongy (?), salt, sour.[4] Touch distinguishes many things, heavy, light objects, and the intermediates: rough, smooth and the intermediates; dry and wet objects. And the senses are in the head and are peculiarly adapted to the organs and are enclosed by them, but touch passes through the head and the body and is common to every sense.[5]
Look under [the entry] 'senses/sensations'.[6]
Greek Original:*)/oyis: o(/rasis. kai\ h( qewri/a. ta\ me\n ou)=n pro\ th=s po/lews a)rgu/rw| kai\ xrusw=| periela/mpeto, kai\ th=s o)/yews e)kei/nhs ou)de\n ou)/te toi=s sfete/rois e)piterpe/steron ou)/te toi=s polemi/ois pare/sth foberw/teron. o(/ti h( o)/yis tw=n dw/deka xrwma/twn e)sti\ kritikh/, leukou= kai\ me/lanos kai\ tw=n metacu/, canqou= kai\ faiou=, w)xrou=, e)ruqrou=, kuanou=, a(lourgou=, lamprou=, o)rfni/ou. h( de\ a)koh\ kritikh/ e)stin o)ce/os kai\ bare/os fqo/ggou, h( de\ o)/sfrhsis kritikh\ eu)wdw=n kai\ duswdw=n o)smw=n kai\ tw=n metacu/, shpome/nwn te kai\ brexome/nwn h)\ thkome/nwn h)\ qumiwme/nwn. h( de\ geu=sis kritikh\ gluke/wn te kai\ pikrw=n xumw=n kai\ tw=n metacu\ e#: e(pta\ ga/r ei)si xumoi/, gluku/s, pikro/s, o)cu/s, drimu/s, stufu/s, somfo/s, a(luko/s, strufno/s. h( de\ a(fh\ pleio/nwn e)sti\ kritikh/: bare/wn, kou/fwn kai\ tw=n metacu/: traxe/wn kai\ lei/wn kai\ tw=n metacu/: chrw=n kai\ u(grw=n. kai\ ai( me\n d# ai)sqh/seis e)n th=| kefalh=| ei)si kai\ i)dia/zousin kai\ periklei/ontai o)rga/nois, h( de\ a(fh\ kai\ dia\ th=s kefalh=s kai\ dia\ tou= sw/matos kexw/rhke kai/ e)sti koinh\ pa/shs ai)sqh/sews. zh/tei e)n tw=| ai)sqh/seis.
Notes:
[1] That is to say, the activity of sight. For this distinction see
Aristotle,
De anima 426a13-16; 428a6-7.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Josephus,
Jewish War 5.351 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXVI.
[3] Sic -- but only ten will be mentioned.
[4]
Photius (next note) mentions seven flavors. The Suda seems to list eight, but the word
stufu/s is attested only here (not in
Photius or LSJ).
[5]
Photius,
Bibliotheca 439a39-b16 (
Life of Pythagoras), attributing the information to "
Pythagoras,
Plato, and
Aristotle."
[6]
alphaiota 326.
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Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 2 March 2004@13:32:01.
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