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Headword:
Μεγαλοπρεπής
Adler number: mu,369
Translated headword: magnificent
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Spectacular.
Or the man burdened by the greatness of expenditures, whereas a liberal [benefactor is] he [focused] on apportion and thrift.[1]
Eunapius [writes]: "nor, otherwise, is magnificence in lifestyle disposed to venture into battles."[2]
"Magnificence differs from liberality, insofar as it is concerned with the greatness of expenditures, whereas liberality exercises the expenditures by apportion."[3]
Μεγαλοπρεπής: μεγαλοφανής. ἢ ὁ ἐπὶ μεγέθει ἀναλωμάτων πονούμενος, ἐλευθέριος δὲ ὁ ἐπὶ τὰ συνήθη καὶ εὐτελῆ. Εὐνάπιος: οὔτε ἄλλως τὸ μεγαλοπρεπὲς κατὰ τὴν δίαιταν ἐν ταῖς μάχαις ἐστὶ φιλοκίνδυνον. διαφέρει δὲ μεγαλοπρέπεια ἐλευθεριότητος ὅτι ἡ μὲν ἐν μεγέθει ἀναλωμάτων ἐστιν, ἡ δὲ ἐλευθεριότης περὶ τὰ συνήθη ἀναλώματα ἐνεργεῖ.
Notes:
The gloss appears in other lexica (
Photius, Anecdota Graeca (Bachmann),
Hesychius); cf. scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus and Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.482.4.
[1] Evidently reformulating the subsequent quotation from Alexander of
Aphrodisias (so Adler).
[2]
Eunapius fr.98 FHG (4.54). The fragment is unplaced (Blockley, p. 150).
[3] Alexander of
Aphrodisias, Commentaries on
Aristotle's Topica 121.32-122.2 (cf. Van Ophuijsen, p. 131). Alexander's comment concerns
Aristotle, Topics 108a37.
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983
J.M. Van Ophuijsen, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle's "Topics 1", Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; ethics; historiography; military affairs; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 10 November 2007@23:02:30.
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