another quote

[tadwelessar]

A few years ago I played "dequoter 1.0", a computer game where you have to decrypt a code. crypted phrases are famous quotes and I wrote them because I like quotes very much. This afternoon I found the sheet where I wrote that quotes and I would like to ask if you know the original greek version of:

I have hardly ever known a matematician who was capable of reasoning
- Plato

I like him very much as you know ("medeis or oudeis" do you remember)?

gratias vobis ago
TADW_Elessar

[tadwelessar]

I found the book:

Plato, The Republic, book 7, sct. 531e

Have you got it?

[tadwelessar]

I found that "address" in a website but I visited http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt ... ction=531e
and I couldn't found the phrase
Can you help me?

[Emma_85]

do you know for sure it's in book 7?
edit: i've found it

[Emma_85]

The quote you want is not on that page, though. It's just in the english commentary I'm afraid. I was confused, too, at first (see my above post).

[tadwelessar]

You mean Plato didn't say that phrase?

[Emma_85]

Oh no, he did indeed, but not there (at least all I can see is the commentary, but not the quote in Greek). He said that, but maybe somewhere else, the commentry is refering to this quote, though.

Unless this is the quote:

For you surely do not suppose that experts in these matters are reasoners and dialecticians.
[face=spionic]ou) ga/r pou dokou=si/ ge/ soi oi( tau=ta deinoi\ dialektikoi\ ei)=nai.[/face]

If that's the quote, then the translation you have is a very loose one indeed.

[tadwelessar]

Sorry, Emma, can u edit your greek text and write it a little bigger? It's really uncomprehensible.
Thanks

[mingshey]

Sorry, Emma, can u edit your greek text and write it a little bigger? It's really uncomprehensible.
Thanks

Click the "quote" button and you can edit the quoted text. Like this:

[face=spionic]ou) ga/r pou dokou=si/ ge/ soi oi( tau=ta deinoi\ dialektikoi\ ei]nai.[/face]

[tadwelessar]

I’m afraid you’re wrong, I think the quote is

ei mê mála gè tínes olígoi hôn entetychêka

It litterally means “except a very few whom I have met”; the few (olígoi) are the mathematicians who are capable of reasoning, that’s because it was difficult to find the quote in the text, the phrase alone doesn’t make sense, you must know the words related to the pronoun.

Thanks

Astrilapis (TADW_Elessar)