n. Kalon is to kaloun ta
pragmata--this is mind (nous or dianoia); which is also the principle of
beauty; and which doing the works of beauty, is therefore rightly
called the beautiful. The meaning of sumpheron is explained by previous
examples;--like episteme, signifying that the soul moves in harmony with
the world (sumphora, sumpheronta). Kerdos is to pasi kerannumenon--that
which mingles with all things: lusiteloun is equivalent to to tes phoras
luon to telos, and is not to be taken in the vulgar sense of gainful,
but rather in that of swift, being the principle which makes motion
immortal and unceasing; ophelimon is apo tou ophellein--that which gives
increase: this word, which is Homeric, is of foreign origin. Blaberon is
to blamton or boulomenon aptein tou rou--that which injures or seeks to
bind the stream. The proper word would be boulapteroun, but this is too
much of a mouthful--like a prelude on the flute in honour of Athene. The
word zemiodes is difficult; great changes, as I was saying, have been
made in words, and even a small change will alter their meaning very
much. The word deon is one of these disguised words. You know that
according to the old pronunciation, which is especially affected by the
women, who are great conservatives, iota and delta were used where we
should now use eta and zeta: for example, what we now call emera was
formerly called imera; and this shows the meaning of the word to
have been 'the desired one coming after night,' and not, as is often
supposed, 'that which makes things gentle' (emera). So again, zugon is
duogon, quasi desis duein eis agogen--(the binding of two together for
the purpose of drawing.) Deon, as ordinarily written, has an evil sense,
signifying the chain (desmos) or hindrance of motion; but in its ancient
form dion is expressive of good, quasi diion, that which penetrates
or goes through all. Zemiodes is really demiodes, and means that which
binds motion (dounti to ion): edone is e pros ten onrsin teinousa
praxis--the delta is an insertion: lupe is derived apo tes dialuseos tou
somatos: ania is from alpha and ienai, to go: algedon is a foreign word,
and is so called apo tou algeinou: odune is apo tes enduseos tes lupes:
achthedon is in its very sound a burden: chapa expresses the flow
of soul: terpsis is apo tou terpnou, and terpnon is properly erpnon,
because the sensation of pleasure is likened to a breath (pnoe) which
creeps (erpei) through the soul: euphrosune