ἄτομος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἄτομον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[uncut]], [[unmown]], λειμών S.''Tr.''200; ἄ. πώγωνος βάθη Ephipp.14.7; ἄτομος [[λίβανος]] = [[in lumps]], Dsc.1.68.1; [[ἄτομον]], τό, = [[ὑοσκύαμος]], dub. in Ps.-Dsc.4.68 (cf. [[ἀταῖος]]).<br><span class="bld">2</span> Gramm., of words, [[not compound]], D.H.''Th.''22.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[that cannot be cut]], [[indivisible]], γραμμαί Arist.''Ph.''206a17, cf. ''LI''968a1; μεγέθη Id.''Ph.''187a3; especially of particles of matter, <b class="b3">ἐτεῇ ἄτομα</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[σώματα]]) καὶ κενόν Democr.9, 125, cf. Arist.''de An.''404a2, ''Metaph.''1039a10; in full, ἄ. σώματα Id.''Cael.''303a21, Epicur.''Nat.''14''Fr.''5: sg., [[ἄτομον]] ἐστι σῶμα στερεόν.. Id.p.129.24 U.; also ἄ. φύσεις Democr. ap. Diog.Oen.5, Epicur.''Ep.''1p.7U.; <b class="b3">ἄτομοι, αἱ,</b> ib.p.14 U.,al., Phld.''Sign.''5,al., Alciphr.1.34.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of [[time]], οὐχ οἷόν τε εἰς ἀ. χρόνους διαιρεῖσθαι τὸν χρόνον Arist.''Ph.''263b27; κατ' ἄ. χρόνον Id.''Sens.''447b18; <b class="b3">ἐν ἀτόμῳ</b> in a [[moment]], Id.''Ph.'' 236a6, ''1 Ep.Cor.''15.52; ἐν ἀ. ὀργῆς Sm.''Is.''54.8.<br><span class="bld">b</span> metaph., [[infinitely small]], διαφοραί Plu.''Phoc.''3.<br><span class="bld">III</span> in Logic, [[individual]], of terms, Pl.''Sph.''229d; of the [[εἶδος]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1034a8, ''de An.''414b27.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[individual]], Id.''APo.''96b11, al.: Subst. [[ἄτομον]], τό, Id.''Cat.'' 1b6, 3a38, ''Metaph.''1058a18 (pl.), Plot.6.2.2, al.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of the [[summum genus]], πρὶν εἰς τὰ ἄ. ἐλθεῖν [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''994b21. Adv. [[ἀτόμως]], [[ὑπάρχειν]] [[immediately]], without the [[intervention]] of a [[middle]] [[term]], Id.''APo.''79a33.