"The great
Maximus[1] says that a composed narrative[2] is composed either for one's own memory, or for the benefit of others, or even both; or to harm certain people or for an example or out of necessity."[3]
*suggrafeu/s: fhsi\n o( me/gas *ma/cimos, o(/ti o( lo/gous suggrafo/menos h)\ pro\s th\n e(autou= u(po/mnhsin suggra/fetai h)\ pro\s w)fe/leian e(te/rwn, h)\ kai\ a)/mfw: h)\ pro\s bla/bhn tinw=n h)\ pro\s e)pi/deicin h)\ e)c a)na/gkhs.
For the unglossed headword -- which does not feature in the body of the entry -- see also
sigma 1283 (plural), and cf.
sigma 1284.
[1] This refers to
Maximus the Confessor (C6-7 CE). See further below.
[2] Adler prints
o( lo/gous suggrafo/menos ["he who composes logoi"] here, while reporting that ms F (Laurentianus 55) reads
o( lo/gos suggrafo/menos. The source for F is most likely
Maximus the Confessor,
Chapters on Love 2.94 (see next note). The present translation therefore follows F.
[3] The source (with slight discrepancy) is the closing remarks on
Severus of
Antioch (c. 465-538) in George the Monk,
Chronicon 459.20-23 (=
Maximus the Confessor,
Chapters on Love 2.94). For the full entry on
Severus, see
Chronicon 452.15-459.23; and cf.
sigma 271.
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