Checking Small Greek Fragments From Gassendi's Syntagma

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Greek Learners,

I am trying to interpret the Greek text embedded in a piece with a few ligatures. Any help appreciated. Here was my best effort …

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=jnZE_zao8_EC&hl=en&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA162

..τὰς ὁμοίοτϰτας

..αὐ ταίες λέϐονται ὁμοιομέωςειαι, και ςοιχεια

..non ὁμοιότϰτος, similtudines, sed ὡσεἱι σώματα,

..nisi etiam putes ὁμοίοτϰας similitudines sed ὡσεἱι σώματα

..nisi etiam putes ὁμοίοτϰας similitudines

All the Best,
David

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Here’s how your Greek bits go:

αὐταὶ δὲ λέγονται ὁμοιομέρειαι,* καὶ στοιχεῖα,

non ὁμοιότητας …. sed ὡσεὶ σώματα
[actually seems to be not ὁμοιότητας but -τος, typesetter’s error if so. And ending of ὡσεὶ is superfluous.]

ὁμοιότητας

  • Fun fact: ὁμοιομέρεια, apparently an Anaxagorean coinage, is introduced in Lucretius’ poem with one of the most remarkable hexameters ever:
    nunc et Anaxagorae scrutemur homoeomerian!

Cheers!

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Thank you, truly inspiring!

nunc et Anaxagorae scrutemur homoeomerian
quam Grai memorant nec nostra dicere lingua
concedit nobis patrii sermonis egestas
sed tamen ipsam rem facile est exponere uerbis

And now let us scrutinize what the Greeks call Anaxagoras’ homoeomerian
(ὁμοιομέρειαι), which the poverty of our ancestral speech does not permit us to say in our own language, though the thing itself is easy to explain in words. 1.830-33