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Headword:
Εἰκάζων
Adler number: epsiloniota,57
Translated headword: conjecturing, comparing
Vetting Status: low
Translation: [He] supposing, or likening.[1]
"She had, as covering for the face, a small apparitions[sic], intended to make her shape more a matter of conjecture than precise observation".[2]
And elsewhere: "he was regarded as the cleverest of his contemporaries, in being most competent at conjecturing [about] what was unclear".[3]
Greek Original:Εἰκάζων: οἰόμενος, ἢ ὁμοιῶν. εἶχε δὲ προκάλυμμα τοῦ προσώπου φάσματα μικρὸν ὡς εἰκάζεσθαι μᾶλλόν τι ἢ ἀτρεκέως καθορᾶσθαι τὴν μορφὴν αὐτῆς. καὶ αὖθις: δεινότατος ἔδοξε τῶν καθ' αὑτὸν οἷα δὴ ἱκανώτατος τὸ ἀφανὲς εἰκάσαι.
Notes:
[1] For this present participle, and the same pair of glosses (each corresponding to one of the headword translations, and cf. LSJ s.v.), see
Timaeus' Lexicon Platonicum. If it is quoted from
Plato -- not always a certainty with
Timaeus -- the likely context is
Meno 98B.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests
Aelian.) The tranmitted plural
φάσματα may be corrected either to the singular
φάσμα or better (as suggested by an anonymous commentator in Adler's copy),
ὕφασμα (
upsilon 702), i.e. woven cloth.
[3] Arrian on
Demosthenes: see
delta 455.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 August 2005@08:28:14.
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