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Headword:
Καιρός
Adler number: kappa,1189
Translated headword: opportune time
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "For [the] opportune time, which for men is the greatest chairman of every deed ..." He means that the opportune time is the timely and most/very useful [thing] for each activity: where even serious [efforts] occurring at the wrong time are not accepted, as a physician conversing with one who suffers about the nature of his illness; as if one were to converse with drunken men about temperance.[1] For what is good, if it does not occur in a good manner, [is] not good.[2]
And elsewhere: "Justinian, whether not thinking opportunely because of old age, or for some other reason, would have jumbled the orthodox belief concerning Christ, if he had not departed from among men."[3]
Greek Original:Καιρός: Ἀριστοφάνης: καιρὸς γάρ, ὅσπερ ἀνδράσι μέγιστος ἔργου παντὸς ἔστ' ἐπιστάτης. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐφ' ἑκάστου πράγματος τὸ καίριον καὶ χρησιμώτατον ὁ καιρός ἐστιν: ὅπου καὶ τὰ σπουδαῖα παρὰ καιρὸν γινόμενα οὐκ ἀποδέχονται: ὡς ἰατρὸν τῷ κάμνοντι περὶ φύσεως τοῦ νοσήματος διαλεγόμενον: ὡς εἴ τις τοῖς μεθύουσι περὶ σωφροσύνης διαλέγοιτο. τὸ γὰρ καλὸν μὴ καλῶς γινόμενον, οὐ καλόν. καὶ αὖθις: ὁ δὲ Ἰουστινιανός, εἴτε ὑπὸ γήρως τὰ καίρια οὐ φρονῶν, εἴτε ἄλλως ἔμελλε τὴν ὀρθογνώμονα περὶ Χριστοῦ δόξαν διακυκήσειν, εἰ μὴ ᾤχετο ἐξ ἀνθρώπων.
Notes:
[1]
Sophocles,
Electra 75-6 with scholion: cf.
epsilon 3615.
[2] An extra observation on the above; source indeterminable.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable: at
iota 436, a similar allegation is made about Julian of Halicarnassus.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; comedy; daily life; ethics; food; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; proverbs; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 December 2007@23:57:31.
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