temperature

From LSJ
Revision as of 16:54, 7 August 2017 by Spiros (talk | contribs) (Text replacement - "<b class="b2">Polit.</b>" to "''Polit.''")

θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

woodhouse 860.jpg

subs.

P. and V. κρᾶσις, ἡ (Plat., Phaedo, 111B; Eur., Frag.); see heat, [[cold.

The temperature was regulated to exclude suffering]]. P. τὸ τῶν ὡρῶν ἄλυπον ἐκέκρατο (Plat., Polit. 272A).