Proper and common life in archaic Greece (Werner Jaeger, 1945)
The polis gives each individual his due place in its political cosmos, and thereby gives him, besides his private life, a sort of second life, his βίος πολιτικός. Now, every citizen belongs to two order of existence; and there is a sharp distinction in his life between what is his own (ἴδιον) and what is […]
Quintilian on False Definitions
In his Institutes of oratory: or, Education of an orator. In twelve books Quintilian argues that a definition can be overthrown in two ways. As an example, his uses the definition of a horse as a rational or irrational animal. The English translator make the note that, at this very point, something must have been […]
