ἀφυΐα
τοῖς πράγμασιν γὰρ οὐχὶ θυμοῦσθαι χρεών· μέλει γὰρ αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ἀλλ' οὑντυγχάνων τὰ πράγματ' ὀρθῶς ἂν τιθῇ, πράξει καλῶς → It does no good to rage at circumstance; events will take their course with no regard for us. But he who makes the best of those events he lights upon will not fare ill.
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A want of natural power or faculty, τῆς κάμψεως Arist.PA 659a29; φωνητηρίων ὀργάνων Str.14.2.28; ψυχῆς Plu.2.104c; ἀ. πρὸς τὸ ἡδέως ζῆν natural unfitness for... ib.1088b; in pl., ἀφυΐαι, opp. εὐφυΐαι, Porph.Abst.3.8, cf. Colot.in Euthd.2. (Written ἀφύεια in Colot. l.c., Epicur.Nat.Herc.1420.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 416] ἡ, Mangel an natürlicher Anlage, πρός τι Strab. XIV p. 662; Plut.; Ungeschicklichkeit, Plut. u. A.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀφυΐα: ἡ ἔλλειψις φυσικῆς ἱκανότητος ἤ δεξιότητος, τὴν ἀφυΐαν τῆς κάμψεως Ἀριστ. π. Ζ. Μορ. 2. 16. 7· ὀργάνων Στράβων 662, πρβλ. Πλούτ. 2. 104C· ἀφ. πρός τι, φυσικὴ ἀνεπιτηδειότης, ὁ αὐτ. 2. 1088Β.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
incapacité naturelle.
Étymologie: ἀφυής.
