absonus
Κινδυνεύουσι γὰρ ὅσοι τυγχάνουσιν ὀρθῶς ἁπτόμενοι φιλοσοφίας λεληθέναι τοὺς ἄλλους ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄλλο αὐτοὶ ἐπιτηδεύουσιν ἢ ἀποθνῄσκειν τε καὶ τεθνάναι → Actually, the rest of us probably haven't realized that those who manage to pursue philosophy as it should be pursued are practicing nothing else but dying and being dead (Socrates via Plato, Phaedo 64a.5)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ab-sŏnus: a, um, adj.
I Deviating from the right tone, discordant, dissonant, inharmonious: sunt quidam ita voce absoni, ut ... in oratorum numerum venire non possint, Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115: vox absona atque absurda, id. ib. 3, 11, 41.— Hence,
II In gen., not harmonizing with a thing, not accordant with, unsuitable, incongruous; constr. with ab or ( = alienus) with dat. or absol.: nec absoni a voce motus erant, Liv. 7, 2: nihil absonum fidei divinae originis fuit, id. 1, 15: fortunis absona dicta, Hor. A. P. 112.—Absol.: nihil absonum, nihil agreste, Quint. 6, 3, 107; cf. id. 12, 10, 32.—Adv.: absŏnē, discordantly, incongruously, Gell. 15, 25; App. Mag. p. 277.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
absŏnus,¹⁴ a, um
1 qui n’a pas le son juste, faux : Cic. de Or. 3, 41 ; 1, 115 || littera absona Quint. 12, 10, 32, lettre ayant un son désagréable || discordant, inharmonieux : Gell. 13, 21, 12 ; Apul. M. 8, 26
2 [fig.], discordant : alicui rei Liv. 1, 15, 6, qui ne s’accorde pas avec qqch. ; [ou] ab aliqua re Liv. 7, 2, 5 || abst] choquant, qui détonne : Quint. 6, 3, 107.
Latin > German (Georges)
ab-sonus, a, um, abtönend, I) eig., mißtönend, vox, clamores, ululatus, latratus, Apul.: vox extra modum absona atque absurda, Cic.: sunt quidam ita voce absoni, ut etc., haben eine so schlecht klingende Stimme, Cic.: m. 2. Sup., vereor ne quando absonum quid modulatu et cantu cecinerim, Fronto princ. hist. p. 202, 16 N. – II) übtr., nicht in Einklang stehend, unverträglich mit usw., tecta, Lucr.: absoni a voce motus, Liv.: m. Dat., nihil absonum fidei divinae originis fuit, Liv.: si dicentis erunt fortunis absona dicta, Hor.: est enim absonum et insipiens m. folg. Infin., Amm. 17, 5, 13; neutr. subst., absona inauditaque dicere, Gell. 7, 15, 5.
