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« Reply #105 on: March 13, 2008, 10:46:07 pm »

 
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   posted 07-11-2004 12:57 PM                       
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Helios,
"As one who fancies himself an expert in eptimology," you'll be interested to know that R.G. Bury's translation also uses the word "writings." As a self-proclaimed expert in eptimology, however, you should have long ago realized that the Greek word that was used by Plato was "grammata(atos)," a word for which the complete Greek-English Lexicon has "letters" listed 7 times and "books, treatices" (i.e. codices) listed only once. "Letters" does not imply a correspondence, as you suggest, but rather, written characters, as the Greek-English Lexicon clearly demonstrates and explains. You seem to keep forgetting that I have had my "nose in the books" for nearly 6 years now, and that I have performed a metaphrastic translation of the entire story. Did you really think that I did not know the meaning of the word "grammata(atos)?"

Incidentally, other definitions of the word also include, but are not limited to:

1. the alphabet (i.e., letters)
2. written characters (i.e., letters)
3. inscription
4. epitaph
5. lines of a drawing
6. picture
7. notes (in music - expressed as letters)
8. figures (in a picture)
9. to read
10. school (where you learn your letters - 11. the alphabet)
12. scribe
13. etymologically
14. articulate sounds (i.e., letters)
15. diagram (mathematical)
16. divisions (said of dicasts)
17. roster (said of guards)
18. quarters (of a town)
19. accent
20. 1/24 ounce, scruple (small weight or measure)
21. set of written characters (i.e., letters)
22. piece of writing (hence, letter)
23. papers or documents
24. records
25. title-deeds
26. contract or estimate
27. account (of loans)
28. bond
29. note of hand
30. a man's writings
31. Imperial rescripts (i.e., = hieroglyphics)
32. article (of a treaty)
33. laws or rules


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