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Headword: Γνώμη
Adler number: gamma,339
Translated headword: Opinion, judgement
Vetting Status: low
Translation:

Decision and choice.
"To anyone who was around his judgement was god-like, but his departure [was] into the gods." Arrian.[1]
A gnômê ["proposition, idea"] [is] also a subject for speculation. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "Early this morning he was robbed of a great idea by a lizard."[2] And the same [author uses this word for] "public assembly".[3]

Greek Original:

Γνώμη: ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ἡ προαίρεσις. ὅτῳ θεία μὲν ἡ γνώμη περιόντι, εἰς θεοὺς δὲ ἡ μεταχώρησις. Ἀρριανός. Γνώμη καὶ τὸ σκέμμα. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις: πρῴην δὲ γνώμην μεγάλην ἀφῃρέθην ὑπ' ἀσκαλαβώτου. καὶ τὴν δημηγορίαν ὁ αὐτός.

Notes:

[1] Arrian, Affairs after Alexander fr.10 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F134); presumably about Alexander himself.
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 69-70. See web address 1 below for the text.
[3] See gamma 336.

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 July 2002@13:42:33.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 18 July 2002@03:34:57.

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