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Aluarus
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Schediasma?

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I am currently reading G. Wilhelm's Leibniz biography by M. A. Antognazza (a philosopher I estimate not quite because of his philosophy but because of his scholarship) and I came across a word from a physics paper he wrote called Schediasma de resistentia motii. I looked for σχεδίασμα at several greek dictionnaries but found no answer, just σχεδίας means caprice or whim.

From context of the biography, I know he wrote it hastily, so could it be that σχεδίασμα means something like impromptu in music? I mean, a very fast improvisation writen in haste or a draft or brief essay poorly structured?

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“Captivæ Graeciæ lingua in paucorum Eruditorum memoria hodie vivit; laborandum est, ne omnino intereat linguarum pulcherrima” Balbinus, Verisimilia Humaniorum Disciplinarum, XII, 3.

“In omni disciplina infirma est artis præceptio sine summa adsiduitate exercitations” R. ad Herennium, III, 40.

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Re: Schediasma?

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Aluarus wrote: I came across a word from a physics paper he wrote called Schediasma de resistentia motii. I looked for σχεδίασμα at several greek dictionnaries but found no answer, just σχεδίας means caprice or whim.

From context of the biography, I know he wrote it hastily, so could it be that σχεδίασμα means something like impromptu in music? I mean, a very fast improvisation writen in haste or a draft or brief essay poorly structured?
Aluarus,

The compound αὐτοσχεδίασμα is found in LSJ

αὐτοσχεδίασμα
αὐτοσχεδί-ασμα, ατος, τό,
work done offhand, impromptu, improvisation, Arist.Po.1448b23, Pl.Com.87.

Aristoteles et Corpus Aristotelicum Phil., Poetica (0086: 034)
“Aristotelis de arte poetica liber”, Ed. Kassel, R.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965, Repr. 1968 [of 1966 corr. edn.].
Bekker page 1448b

1448b.20
κατὰ φύσιν δὲ ὄντος ἡμῖν τοῦ μιμεῖσθαι καὶ τῆς ἁρμονίας
καὶ τοῦ ῥυθμοῦ (τὰ γὰρ μέτρα ὅτι μόρια τῶν ῥυθμῶν ἐστι
φανερὸν) ἐξ ἀρχῆς οἱ πεφυκότες πρὸς αὐτὰ μάλιστα κατὰ
1448b.23
μικρὸν προάγοντες ἐγέννησαν τὴν ποίησιν ἐκ τῶν αὐτο-
σχεδιασμάτων. διεσπάσθη δὲ κατὰ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἤθη ἡ ποίησις·
1448b.25
οἱ μὲν γὰρ σεμνότεροι τὰς καλὰς ἐμιμοῦντο πράξεις καὶ
τὰς τῶν τοιούτων, οἱ δὲ εὐτελέστεροι τὰς τῶν φαύλων,
πρῶτον ψόγους ποιοῦντες, ὥσπερ ἕτεροι ὕμνους καὶ ἐγκώμια.
τῶν μὲν οὖν πρὸ Ὁμήρου οὐδενὸς ἔχομεν εἰπεῖν τοιοῦτον
ποίημα, εἰκὸς δὲ εἶναι πολλούς, ἀπὸ δὲ Ὁμήρου ἀρξαμένοις

Plato Comic., Fragmenta (0497: 001)
“Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, vol. 1”, Ed. Kock, T.
Leipzig: Teubner, 1880.
Fragment 87, line 1

ἐνταῦθ' ἐπ' ἄκρων τῶν κροτάφων ἕξει λύχνον
δίμυξον.
ἕξουσιν οἱ πομπῆς λυχνούχους δηλαδή.
κᾆθ' ἧκεν ἄρτους πριάμενος
μὴ τῶν καθαρύλλων, ἀλλὰ μεγάλους Κιλικίους.
αὐτοσχεδίασμα

ΞΑΝΤΡΙΑΙ Η ΚΕΡΚΩΠΕΣ

τῶνδε βουλευτὶς πόνων
ἦν δὴ θόρυβος τευταζόντων.
χαῖρε παλαιογόνων ἀνδρῶν θεατῶν ξύλλογε παντοσόφων.

ΠΑΙΔΑΡΙΟΝ


Julius Pollux Gramm., Onomasticon (0542: 001)
“Pollucis onomasticon, 2 vols.”, Ed. Bethe, E.
Leipzig: Teubner, 9.1:1900; 9.2:1931, Repr. 1967; Lexicographi Graeci 9.1–9.2.
Book 6, section 142,

προνοίας, οὐ χωρὶς μερίμνης, οὐκ ἄνευ σκέψεως, σὺν ἁρμονίᾳ,
σὺν βασάνῳ, σὺν τάξει, κρίσει, ἐργασίᾳ, ἀκριβείᾳ, ταλαιπωρίᾳ,
καθάρσει, τορείᾳ. εἰς δὲ τὸν ἄνευ μελέτης δοκοῦντα λέγειν
πρόχειρος, ῥᾴδιος, αὐτοσχεδιάζων καὶ ὡς Ξενοφῶν ἐν Λακώνων
πολιτείᾳ (XIII. 5) αὐτοσχεδιαστής – τὸ γὰρ ἐν τῇ Νυκτὶ μακρᾷ
Πλάτωνος (I p 624. 87) αὐτοσχεδίασμα φαῦλον – ἄσκεπτος, ἀπό-
νηρος, ῥᾴθυμος, ἀμελής, ἀφρόντιστος, ἀπρονόητος, προπετής, ὀλί-
γωρος, ἀταλαίπωρος, εὐχερής, εὔκολος. ἐκ τοῦ καιροῦ λέγων, ἐκ
τοῦ παραχρῆμα, ἐκ τοῦ παρατυχόντος ἐκ τοῦ τυχόντος, δι' ὀλί-
γου, πᾶν τοὐπιὸν λέγων, ἐπιχειλής, φλύαρος, λάλος, ἐπιπολῆς
λέγων, ἐξ ἑτοίμου, πᾶν τὸ ἐπελθόν, ἀπροβούλευτος, ἀπερίσκεπτος.

Photius Lexicogr., Scr. Eccl., Theol., Lexicon (Α – Δ) (4040: 029)
“Photii patriarchae lexicon, vol. 1 (Α – Δ)”, Ed. Theodoridis, C.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 1982.
Alphabetic letter alpha, entry 3254, line 2


<†αὐτοσχέδιον†>· ἐκ τοῦ σύνεγγυς τόπου, ἐκ χειρός.
<Αὐτοσχεδιάζειν>· Θουκυδίδης εἶπεν (1, 138, 3). καὶ <αὐτο-
σχεδίασμα> Πλάτων (fr. 87 K.), <αὐτοσχεδιαστὴς> δὲ Στράττις (fr. 4
Dem.).
<Αὐτοσχεδίως>· αὐτομάτως, συντόμως.

Lexicon Sabbaiticum, Lexicon Sabbaiticum (e cod. Sabbaitico 137) (4300: 001)
“Lexica Graeca minora (ed. K. Latte & H. Erbse)”, Ed. Papadopoulos–Kerameus, A.
Hildesheim: Olms, 1965.

<Αὐτοσχεδιάζειν> Θουκυδίδης εἶπεν, καὶ <Αὐτοσχεδίασμα> Πλά-
των, <Αὐτοσχεδιασθεὶς> δὲ Στράττις.

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Re: Schediasma?

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Thank you very much for the amount (!) of new information concerning this new word :oops: I pretty much appreciated! :D
“Captivæ Graeciæ lingua in paucorum Eruditorum memoria hodie vivit; laborandum est, ne omnino intereat linguarum pulcherrima” Balbinus, Verisimilia Humaniorum Disciplinarum, XII, 3.

“In omni disciplina infirma est artis præceptio sine summa adsiduitate exercitations” R. ad Herennium, III, 40.

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