List of Greek Phrases / Psi
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ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυίδ
- ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυίδ
- Psalmos to Dauid
- "A psalm for David"
Most psalms have headings that often contain a name. David is mentioned in 73 headings . The post-exilic Judaism wrote most of the Psalms to the priest-king David.
Biblical research has since come to the conclusion that the name David indicates an early date. The time of kings is considered to be the epoch of psalm poetry. David was also behind the establishment of the Temple Singers School.
The David psalms are a kind of collective name which marks the affiliation of the respective psalms to the David tradition of the pre-exilic temple cult.
The Hebrew preposition, which is reproduced as the Psalm of David , does not have to express authorship, but rather goes more in the direction of ownership: belonging to David . The Greek phrase quoted here clearly means “a psalm for David”.
ψηλαφεῖν ἐν τῷ σκότῳ
- ψηλαφεῖν ἐν τῷ σκότῳ
- psēlaphein en tō skotō
- "Groping around in the dark"
- Latin: " palpari in tenebris "
The humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam writes in his collection of proverbs Adagia :
“Groping in the dark means trying to track down something with vague assumptions. Aristophanes in 'peace': Because otherwise, / We were politically deep in the dark / But now we always consult with the light. "
This is an allusion to the archon Hyperbolus , who was a lamp manufacturer by profession. He wanted to become the leading demagogue after Kleon and was the leader of the “ party ” that was in favor of a reconciliation with Sparta , which was in direct opposition to Alcibiades .
The ostracism of Hyperbolus against Alcibiades and Nicias in 416/15 was the last ostracization. In this vote, the process was taken ad absurdum when the actual opponents Nikias and Alkibiades concentrated their supporters on the demagogue Hyperbolus, who had applied for ostracism. It was apparently so discredited that no further ostracophoria was performed.
ψυχὴ θρεπτική
- ψυχὴ θρεπτική
- Psychē threptikē
- "Plant Soul"
Term from Aristotle's theory of the soul in his book On the Soul , in which the soul is divided as follows:
- ψυχὴ θρεπτική ( psychē threptikē ; Latin anima vegetativa ): plant soul , nutrition and reproduction
- ψυχὴ αἰσθητική ( psychē aisthētikē ; Latin anima sensitiva ): animal soul, sensory perception and change of location
- νοῦς ( nous ; Latin anima cogitativa ): human soul , divided into an immortal, active nous, νοῦς ποιῶν nous poiōn , and a mortal, receptive nous, νοῦς παθητικός nous pathētikos
In this doctrine of the soul, “to be animated ” means something like “to be alive ”. The soul has three faculties and modes of action. She is also partly mortal and immortal. Unlike Plato , Aristotle sees body and soul closely connected. Yet for him there is a part of the soul that points beyond the body.
Ψυχὴ πᾶσα ἀθάνατος
- Ψυχὴ πᾶσα ἀθάνατος τὸ γὰρ ἀεικίνητον ἀθάνατον.
- Psychē pāsa athanatos; to gar aeikineton athanaton.
- “The soul as a whole is immortal; because that which is always in motion is immortal. "
Plato in Phaedrus , 245c. The soul, as a moving principle, can never leave itself and is therefore immortal.
Socrates attaches a myth to these remarks . Initially the souls lived among the gods and took part in their heavenly chariot ride. The gods have loud thoroughbred horses, but the soul, the car of the reason is directed, has a noble, heavenly Ross, the mind , and a wild, shaggy, petulant earthly horse to drive . She crashes because of the stubborn behavior of the earthly horse. Then the feathers fall from the wings of the soul and the soul sinks to the earth. When the soul sees something beautiful on earth, it remembers the ideas and its feathers begin to grow again.
Ψυχῆς ἰατρεῖον
- Ψυχῆς ἰατρεῖον
- Psychēs iatreion
- "Hospital for the Soul"
Inscription above the gate of the library of Alexandria in the Hellenistic period after Diodorus Siculus . It is considered to be the largest collection of scripts in the ancient world. Around 250 BC The total number of scrolls in the library was already 400,000, later it should have been up to 700,000 scrolls.
According to tradition, every landing ship that carried scrolls had to have the scrolls copied and only received the copies back.
The historian Jacob Burckhardt writes in his Greek cultural history:
“This city was in the center of the current Hellenistic world (including Italy and Rome), like none of Antioch and Seleucia it was protected from conquest and in terms of security it was completely the opposite of Macedonia. In addition, Egypt was a place of ancient knowledge and gathering. Libraries had already occurred with the ancient pharaohs, and that of Osymandyas had the inscription "Sanctuary for the Spirit" (ψυχῆς ἰατρεῖον). "
In collaboration with UNESCO , a new Alexandria library was built and opened on October 16, 2002.
Ψυχῆς μέγας χαλινὸς ἀνθρώποις ὁ νοῦς.
- Ψυχῆς μέγας χαλινὸς ἀνθρώποις ὁ νοῦς.
- Psychēs megas chalinos anthrōpois ho nous.
- "Reason is the firm reins of the human soul."
Sentence from the Monosticha of the poet Menander . The Latin version of this saying is: “ Animi nam frenum magnum mens est hominibus. "
Ψυχῆς πείρατα ἰὼν οὐκ ἂν ἐξεύροιο ...
- Ψυχῆς πείρατα ἰὼν οὐκ ἂν ἐξεύροιο ...
- Psychēs peirata iōn ouk an exeuroio ...
- "You cannot find the limits of the soul while walking ...".
Heraclitus on the soul. The sentence reads completely:
- Ψυχῆς πείρατα ἰὼν οὐκ ἂν ἐξεύροιο, πᾶσαν ἐπιπορευόμενος ὁδόν, οὕτω βαθὺν λόγον ἔχει.
- Psychēs peirata iōn ouk an exeuroio pasan epiporeuomenos hodon; houtō bathyn logon echei.
- “You cannot find the limits of the soul while walking, and whether you pace every road; it has such a deep meaning. "
Ψυχρὰ θέρεται, θερμὸν ψύχεται, ὑγρὸν αὐαίνεται, καρφαλέον νοτίζεται.
- Ψυχρὰ θέρεται, θερμὸν ψύχεται, ὑγρὸν αὐαίνεται, καρφαλέον νοτίζεται.
- Psychra theretai, thermon psychetai, hygron auainetai, karphaleon notizetai.
- "Cold heats up, warm cools down, damp dries up, drought is wetted."
Fragment of the philosopher Heraclitus , with which he expresses that change and stability are the poles of a continuum. The unity of the opposites exists in all processes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erasmus of Rotterdam: Selected Writings . Volume 7. Scientific Book Society. 1972
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca 1.49
- ^ Burckhardt, Jacob, Greek cultural history, fourth volume, ninth section. The Hellenic Man in His Development over Time, VI. The Hellenistic Man ( Zeno.org )
- ↑ Diogenes Laertios IX, 7 = Hermann Diels , The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics , Heraklit 45
- ↑ So the translation of Diels in The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics .
- ↑ Heraclitus : B 126