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Headword:
Ταλαντουμένην
Adler number: tau,35
Translated headword: being balanced
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Plato in
Timaeus [writes]: "but being balanced unevenly, the earth, although being shaken by them [sc. the forms of Being, Space, and Becoming], also motivates these others to shake in turn."[1] [sc. The word is used] metaphorically from beam-scales -- since the beam scale is called a balance. Also [sc. attested is the verb]
ὑπερταλαντᾶν ["to overbalance"], an outweighing.[2]
Greek Original:Ταλαντουμένην: Πλάτων ἐν Τιμαίῳ: τὴν δὲ γῆν ταλαντουμένην ἀνωμάλως σείεσθαι μὲν ὑπ' ἐκείνων, κινουμένην δὲ αὖ πάλιν ἐκεῖνα σείειν. μεταφορικῶς ἀπὸ τῶν ζυγῶν: ἐπεὶ τὸ ζυγὸν τάλαντον λέγεται. καὶ ὑπερταλαντᾶν, τὸ ὑπερβαρεῖν.
Notes:
The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is the present middle-passive participle, feminine accusative singular, of the contract verb
ταλαντάω ,
I balance, sway, oscillate; see generally LSJ s.v., and cognates at
tau 31,
tau 32,
tau 33,
tau 34, and
tau 36.
[1]
Plato,
Timaeus 52E (web address 1), on the original cause of motion in the cosmos; Guthrie, p. 271.
[2] The headword is similarly glossed in
Photius' Lexicon,
Etymologicum Magnum 744.12-7 (Kallierges), and
Timaeus,
Lexicon Platonicum tau1003b8; cf. ps.-
Zonaras 1714.10. Adler also cites
Etymologicum Genuinum. [In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that ms F omitted the end of the gloss,
τὸ ὑπερβαρεῖν (
an outweighing), and the next two entries.]
W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy: The Later Plato and the Academy, vol. 5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 18 November 2011@02:57:46.
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