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Headword:
Εἰκαῖον
Adler number: epsiloniota,71
Translated headword: random, aimless
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Vain, useless.[1]
"The care of the spirit [
δαίμων ] in each of us [is] to keep it pure from passion and frivolity and dissatisfaction with what comes [to us] from god and men."[2]
And elsewhere: "he asserts that
Plato says nothing random."[3]
Εἰκαῖον: μάταιον, ἀνωφελές. θεραπεία δὲ τοῦ ἐν ἑκάστῳ ἡμῖν δαίμονος, τοῦτον καθαρὸν πάθους διατηρεῖν καὶ εἰκαιότητος καὶ δυσαρεστήσεως τῆς πρὸς τὰ ἐκ θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων γινόμενα. καὶ αὖθις: μηδὲν γὰρ εἰκαῖον Πλάτων λέγειν φησίν.
Notes:
[1] Neuter nominative/accusative singular of
εἰκαῖος ; cf.
epsiloniota 74.
[2] Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations 2.13.2, quoted more fully at
delta 119.
[3]
Damascius fr. 387 Zintzen.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 April 2005@00:30:42.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked translation; augmented n.3; another keyword; cosmetics) on 27 April 2005@03:26:39.
David Whitehead (modified n.3) on 21 March 2011@04:27:17.
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