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Νημερτής τ' ἐρόεσσα μελάγκουρός τ' Άσάϕεια

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Tjitte H. Janssen
Tjitte H. Janssen
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In frr. 122B and 123B (DK) Empedocles mentions a series of opposite personifications, e.g. Beauty and Ugliness (122.3), Movement and Rest (123.2); the last pair mentioned in fr. 122 is Nemertes–Asapheia.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 104 , November 1984 , pp. 177 - 178
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1984

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1 Boeder, H., ‘Der frühgriechische Wortgebrauch von Logos und Aletheia’, Archiv für Begrijfsgeschichte iv (1959) 91Google Scholar, observes that ἀλήθεια and ἀληθής are never used as predicate or attribute with the exception of Hes. Th. 233.

2 Boeder (n. 1) 91 remarks that the pre-Homeric ἐτεόν (‘true’) is replaced by σαϕής,νημερτής, and esp. ἀληθής; cf. ibid. 98.

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8 Boeder (n. i) 93 argues that ‘the λήθων prevents his knowledge from being shared with someone else’—which could be qualified as ἀϕανές or ἄδηλον: but the former word is not found in epic at all, while the latter is found once meaning ‘invisible’ (Hes. Erga 6).

9 For τὸ σαϕές (‘Klarheit und Zuverlässigkeit die auf Augenzeugenschaft beruht’) see Fraenkel, H., Dichtung und Philosophie des frühen Griechentums (Munchen 1962) 382Google Scholar 3, esp. n. 20; also id., Frühgriechisches Denken (München i960) 342–9.

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