Nail Supremacy

Friday, 5th Jul, 2019 by Krilling for Company in Ancient Greek, Geometry, Latin, Literature, Mathematics, Quotations, Translation, Wise Sayings and tagged Ancient Greek, body, flesh, geometer, God, God as geometer, God as mathematician, Greek language, Greek literature, Latin, mathematics, mind versus matter, nail of pain and pleasure, nature of God, pain, Plato, pleasure, Plutarch, quotations, Scripta Moralia, soul, spirit, Symposiacs, theology, Translation | Leave a comment

Ὁ γαρ ἡδονής και ἀλγηδόνος ἧλος, ὃς πρὸς το σώμα τήν ψυχην προσηλοῖ, μέγιστον κακὸν ἔχειν ἔοικε, τὸ τα αἰσθητά ποιεῖν ἐναργέστερα τῶν νοητῶν, καὶ καταβιάζεσθαι καὶ πάθει μᾶλλον ἢ λόγῳ κρίνειν τήν διάνοιαν.

• ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ Β’. Πώς Πλάτων ἔλεγε τον θεὸν άεὶ γεωμετρεῖν.

Nam voluptatis et doloris ille clavus, quo animus corpori affigitur, id videtur maximum habere malum, quod sensilia facit intelligibilibus evidentiora, vimque facit intellectui, ut affectionem magis quam rationem in judicando sequatur.

• QUÆSTIO II: Qua ratione Plato dixerit, Deum semper geometriam tractare.

For the nail of pain and pleasure, which fastens the soul to the body, seems to do us the greatest mischief, by making sensible things more powerful over us than intelligible, and by forcing the understanding to determine them rather by passion than by reason.

• Plutarch’s Symposiacs, QUESTION II: What is Plato’s Meaning, When He Says that God Always Plays the Geometer?

Spatial Relationships

Tuesday, 5th Mar, 2019 by Krilling for Company in Ancient Greek, Language, Literature and tagged Adventure with a Lion, Ancient Greek, ancient Greek prepositions, Greek language, Greek prepositions, prepositions, Teach Yourself Greek | Leave a comment

Illustrations from Teach Yourself Greek by F. Kinchin Smith and T.W. Melluish (1947), with accents added by another (and presumably Hispanophone) hand. (Is a “Hispanophone hand” like a “pivotal voice”?)

O l’Omertà o la Morte

Thursday, 19th Apr, 2018 by Krilling for Company in Ancient Greek, History, Mathematics, Quotations and tagged ancient Greece, Clement, conspiracy of silence, expulsion, Greek language, Greek mathematicians, Greek mathematics, Hipparchus, math, mathematics, maths, Pythagoras, Pythagorean secrets, Pythagoreanism, quotations, quotations about mathematics, quotes, quotes about mathematics, silence, Stromata | Leave a comment

• φασὶ γοῦν Ἵππαρχον τὸν Πυθαγόρειον, αἰτίαν ἔχοντα γράψασθαι τὰ τοῦ Πυθαγόρου σαφῶς, ἐξελαθῆναι τῆς διατριβῆς καὶ στήλην ἐπ’ αὐτῷ γενέσθαι οἷα νεκρῷ. — Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Στρώματα.

• They say, then, that Hipparchus the Pythagorean, being guilty of writing the tenets of Pythagoras in plain language, was expelled from the school, and a pillar raised for him as if he had been dead. — Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, 2.5.9.57.3-4

Verbum Volat

Friday, 9th Feb, 2018 by Krilling for Company in Ancient Greek, Language, Literature, Quotations, Translation and tagged Ancient Greek, Greek dictionary, Greek language, Greek lexicon, καθῐλᾰρύνω, καθῐλᾰρεύομαι, lexicography, Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, Liddell and Scott, lost meanings, lost words, Suidas | Leave a comment

• καθῐλᾰρ-εύομαι c. gen., and —ύνω c. dat., sine expl., Suid. — Liddell & Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon

He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #45

Monday, 10th Jul, 2017 by Krilling for Company in Ancient Greek, Literature, Quotations, Translation and tagged Ancient Greek, ancient Greek poetry, Greek language, Greek poet, infinity, number, Pindar, quotations, quotes, quotes about sand, sand | Leave a comment

…ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν… — Πίνδαρου Ολυμπιόνικος ΙΙ, 98

“…the sand escapes all numbering…” — Pindar, Second Olympian Ode, line 98

Sphere Hear

Tuesday, 7th Mar, 2017 by Krilling for Company in Ancient Greek, Latin, Literature, Philosophy, Post-Weird, Quotations, Theology and tagged all ear, all eye, ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, ancient Greek concepts of God, Diogenes Laërtius, eternity, fifth century BC, God, God is spherical, Greek language, Greek philosopher, Greek philosophy, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Lives of the Philosophers, quotations about God, R.D. Hicks, sixth century BC, spherical God, theology, Trinity Cambridge, Xenophanes | Leave a comment

οὐσίαν θεοῦ σφαιροειδῆ, μηδὲν ὅμοιον ἔχουσαν ἀνθρώπωι· ὅλον δὲ ὁρᾶν καὶ ὅλον ἀκούειν, μὴ μέντοι ἀναπνεῖν· σύμπαντά τε εἶναι νοῦν καὶ φρόνησιν καὶ ἀίδιον. — Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων

“The substance of God is spherical, in no way resembling man. He is all eye and all ear, but does not breathe; he is the totality of mind and thought, and is eternal.” — Xenophanes’ concept of God in Diogenes Laërtius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers (c. 280-320 AD), Book IX, chapter 2 (translated by R.D. Hicks, 1925)

He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #41

Monday, 9th Jan, 2017 by Krilling for Company in Ancient Greek, Mathematics, Quotations, Theology and tagged Astrology, Christian theology, Christianity, Church Fathers, Clement of Alexandria, curriculum of study, Greek language, magic, mathematics, Miscellanies, quotations about math, quotations about mathematics, quotations about maths, Second Century, sorcery, the highest sciences, The Stromata, theologian, theology | Leave a comment

κατ’ ἐπακολούθημα δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐγκυκλίου καλουμένης παιδείας, εἰς ὅσα εὔχρηστος, περί τε ἀστρολογικῆς καὶ μαθηματικῆς καὶ μαγικῆς γοητείας τε ἐπιδραμητέον. αὐχοῦσι γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖσδε οἱ Πανέλληνες ὡς μεγίσταις ἐπιστήμαις. — Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Στρώματα.

“By consequence, also we must treat of what is called the curriculum of study — how far it is serviceable; and of astrology, and mathematics, and magic, and sorcery. For all the Greeks boast of these as the highest sciences.” — Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, Book II.

Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral

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