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He made it his business also to compose and translate philosophical dialogues, and to render into Latin the several terms of dialectics and natural philosophy; for he it was, as they say, who first, or principally, provided Latin names for
‘phantasia,’
‘synkatathesis,’
‘epokhe,’ and
‘katalepsis,’ as well as for
‘atomon,’
‘ameres,’
‘kerton,’
1 and many others like these, contriving partly by metaphors and partly by new and fitting terms to make them intelligible and familiar.
1 In Latin, respectively, visum (conception), assensio (assent), assensionis retentio (withholding of assent), comprehensio (perception), individuum (atom), vacuum (void); ‘ ameres ’ (indivisible), with its Latin equivalent, does not occur in the extant works of Cicero (Gudeman).
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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