Re: ὁ Οἰκονομικὸς τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος (ἀναγιγνώσκωμεν)
Posted: October 17th, 2014, 9:33 pm
Xenophon, Oeconomicus Chapter 1, section 8 - Text and hints
“And when a person buys a horse he knows it will be useful to him [1], but if he receives an injury while falling [2] from it, the horse is not wealth to him, is it?”
“It truly is not if wealth only consists of good things.”
“Neither, then, is the land [considered] wealth to a man, who tends it in such a way that his work produces a loss. Nor indeed is the land [considered] wealth, if instead of yielding crops it produces hunger.”
[1] This was/is a lexical nightmare for me. This is a question that I am embarrassed to ask but will save me great amounts of grief and trial and error: where can I find what the abbreviations in LSJ mean? I have begun to recognize some of them by repeated (mis)use, but I can't flip to the front of a digital copy like I would in a book to find out.
Also of note, I have taken out the negative for reasons of style, but am still not sure that this is the "correct" way to take it. I understand it currently as "should it not be known to him to be useful," but I think I am wrong because I have had to rework it.
[2] Could this refer to repeated falls? If it doesn’t, I must admit I don’t know what to make of your hint.
Sorry, I have been so slow with this. I am trying to be more diligent. Unfortunately, that means I move more slowly. I am hoping that I am at least doing better than I was last summer.
“And when a person buys a horse he knows it will be useful to him [1], but if he receives an injury while falling [2] from it, the horse is not wealth to him, is it?”
“It truly is not if wealth only consists of good things.”
“Neither, then, is the land [considered] wealth to a man, who tends it in such a way that his work produces a loss. Nor indeed is the land [considered] wealth, if instead of yielding crops it produces hunger.”
[1] This was/is a lexical nightmare for me. This is a question that I am embarrassed to ask but will save me great amounts of grief and trial and error: where can I find what the abbreviations in LSJ mean? I have begun to recognize some of them by repeated (mis)use, but I can't flip to the front of a digital copy like I would in a book to find out.
Also of note, I have taken out the negative for reasons of style, but am still not sure that this is the "correct" way to take it. I understand it currently as "should it not be known to him to be useful," but I think I am wrong because I have had to rework it.
[2] Could this refer to repeated falls? If it doesn’t, I must admit I don’t know what to make of your hint.
Sorry, I have been so slow with this. I am trying to be more diligent. Unfortunately, that means I move more slowly. I am hoping that I am at least doing better than I was last summer.