Occasion and opportunity

Use in the book

The family reaches well beyond courtship. In the preface’s social criticism, taking away occasions means addressing the conditions that lead people into theft and begging rather than merely hanging offenders. Burton’s argument draws on More’s Utopia and blames bad government and a lack of occupational training. In the discussion of literary reception, an occasion is one opening among material, subject and influential recommendation that allows work to succeed. The Pliny passage is adapted from the introduction of a young advocate, and Burton’s named addressee, Trajan, differs from the compared letter’s Triarius. The practical maxim to seize opportunity makes a more general point about timing, illustrated by the Latin Opportunity who is bald at the back and cannot be caught once past.

Spatial convenience is equally important. Hormuz flourishes through the opportunity of its harbour, while settlements seek the advantage of rivers. The opportune harbours and markets of the civic discussions are conveniently situated; they need not be suddenly available. The medical discussion nevertheless asks whether a location convenient for navigation is also healthy. Corinth supplies a darker application of the same geographical sense: access for foreign visitors is joined to its sexual reputation in Burton’s compressed account of Strabo and Gerbel. The Latin margin’s opportunitas is the place’s convenience, not a distinct theory of erotic desire.

Other occasions are things that demand attention or happen to someone. People with little employment have small occasions, little requiring them to act; Burton then reproaches even their inability to undertake ordinary tasks. This moralized account should not become a modern diagnostic judgment. Private people’s ordinary occasions in the sacrifice discussion are their everyday concerns. Randolotius, by contrast, is disturbed by an occasion while copying medical notes: the text leaves the incident unidentified. Its alleged consequences and remedy belong to an unverified historical report; the word cannot tell us what the disturbance was.

Medical uses repeatedly require their qualifications. Transitory melancholy comes with small occasions of sorrow, but that is the loosely named passing state. A reported definition of established melancholy has fear and sadness without an apparent occasion, meaning no apparent reason, not no possible cause; the next paragraph challenges that definition. Fracastorius distinguishes bodily disposition from the occasion prompting imagination, such as an altered sensory experience. Elsewhere, the disease takes its first occasion or beginning from troubling imaginings, and the Latin expressly compares this with a primary cause. Advice to remove object, cause and occasion can be categorical in Burton, although an adjacent account restricts a method to imaginings not long established. A further comparison of melancholy and despair makes the source boundary especially clear: Burton says melancholy may sometimes be a sufficient cause of terror of conscience, whereas the note reports Perkins allowing an occasion but no direct cause. Burton’s stronger formulation must not be silently attributed to Perkins. These are local variations within historical medicine, not one uniform modern causal model.

Timeliness is also conditional. Exercise is praised if opportunely used and condemned if ill-timed, violent or excessive. Opening windows opportune to the circumstances belongs to the same historical environmental regimen. A Latin medical margin even denies benefit from sexual activity when timely except for its specified cases. Suitable occupation in another Latin margin is something assigned to occupy and divert the mind. In the preface, useful things learned belong first to the adapted Giovio quotation, whose thirty-seven years are distinct from Burton’s own thirty. And when Burton says a subject will be treated more opportunely elsewhere, he means a more suitable place in his exposition. The contrary timing appears in importunely used bloodletting and Latin importune bathing: each means unsuitable timing rather than persistent requests. Importunus sudor is instead troublesome sweating, followed separately by Burton’s own unseasonable-sweat gloss; the next Latin margin has the same troublesome sense in an inflected form. These descriptions retain their historical medical setting without becoming a treatment catalogue.

The opportunity of speech is a particularly important abstraction. It means words fitted to the circumstances, not simply permission to talk. Burton invokes a reading of Homer’s nepenthe as timely consoling discourse, supported explicitly by Macrobius. The Odyssey itself describes a drug; the interpretation must not be confused with its literal narrative. Burton’s praise is of speech wisely administered at the proper time, and his following letter examples extend that argument to written consolation.

In love melancholy, opportunity is the access that lets attractions operate. One sentence makes time, place and accompanying enticements necessary; another says the favourable circumstances could each produce the effect by themselves. The later household account speaks of almost impossible resistance and of lovers compelled “as it were” by restricted choice. These rhetorical intensifications should not be forced into a consistent law of necessity. The same work presents Socrates alone with Alcibiades, offered intimacy and actively rejecting it. Opportunity therefore does not itself entail consummation, still less consent. Importunity names the persistent solicitation joined to access, and the procurers’ favourable timing is described in exaggerated claims, not recommended here as a tactic. Such pressure need not be erotic: importunate kings press Elisha, friends importune someone to marry, and the borrowed Latin defence of renewed writing describes being overcome by readers’ insistence. The never-right-time reply to the friends belongs to the hostile marriage case, not the eventual conclusion.

Opportunities can be morally dangerous in other settings too. The wealthy person in the Theodoret passage is unhappy if also wicked because wealth supplies opportunities for wrongdoing; the poor person is happy if good. The moral conditions prevent a blanket equation of wealth with vice or poverty with virtue. Avoiding occasions in the love remedies means avoiding circumstances that intensify the passion, while the friend’s possible relief remains only perhaps. In the religious polemic, Burton calls bodily and environmental conditions the Devil’s opportunity and sole occasion, but has just distinguished moderate, seasonable fasting from excess. The demonological claim remains his, and the modern phrase very occasion does not explicitly retain sole as only. Finally, the biblical fall by occasion is rendered as being overtaken by a fault. Burton’s appeal to gentle restoration is followed by exclusion and coercive measures; it cannot be isolated as an unrestricted policy of toleration.

Related entries

Cause: Causal classifications and their local qualifications (external volume).

Accident: Circumstance, incident and accompanying condition (external volume).

Remedy by diversion: Historical redirection of thought and activity (external volume).

Intention and remission: Intensification and relaxation of passions (external volume).

Courtship and wooing: Persistent solicitation and enabling circumstances in courtship.

Gifts and liberality: Gifts and inducements among the means of approach.

Places to read

1. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 10–11, 1Giovio’s adapted useful learning and Burton’s distinct autobiographical duration and scholarly aims.
2. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 14–16conditions of literary reception, occasion and Latin occasio, with the Pliny addressee and original argumentative setting corrected in note 259.
3. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 19–21social causes of theft and begging, More’s prevention argument and criticism of punitive government.
4. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 16–18opportune harbours and the commercial praise of industry in the Low Countries.
5. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 31–33Hormuz’s favourable harbour, the neighbouring Mecca geography and Corinth’s ports.
6. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 3–5convenient sites and markets in Burton’s imagined commonwealth, with local exceptions retained.
7. Subsection 5. Melancholy as a Passing State, Loosely So Called; the Different Meanings of the Word · paragraphs 1–3small occasions within transitory melancholy, expressly distinguished from the established condition.
8. Member 3 Subsection 1. The Definition of Melancholy Its Name and Distinctions · paragraphs 6–8no apparent occasion in a reported definition, followed by explicit disagreement with its sufficiency.
9. Subsection 2. The Part Affected The Faculty Affected and the People Affected · paragraphs 23–25more opportunely as a more suitable place in the exposition, alongside historical claims about affected persons.
10. Subsection 4 Retention and Evacuation as Causes, and How They Act · paragraphs 19–23importunely and Latin importune as unsuitable timing, alongside duration, frequency and the express variation by presumed humoral constitution.
11. Subsection 5 Bad Air as a Cause of Melancholy · paragraphs 4–6river advantages contrasted with disputed healthfulness of sites and air.
12. Subsection 6 Excessive Exercise as a Cause, and How It Acts. Solitude and Idleness · paragraphs 15–17opportunely timed exercise, its conditions and historical humoral explanation.
13. Subsection 6 Excessive Exercise as a Cause, and How It Acts. Solitude and Idleness · paragraphs 21–23occasions as matters demanding attention, and the mixture of moral blame and impaired activity.
14. Subsection 4. Causes of Hypochondriacal, or Windy, Melancholy · paragraphs 42–44Randolotius’s unspecified disturbing incident and the limits of the reported case.
15. Subsection 2 Symptoms of Windy Hypochondriacal Melancholy · paragraphs 12–15importunus sudor and marginal importuno in note 4666, separately rendered from unseasonable sweat, with the preceding symptom-limit qualification.
16. Member 3 Immediate Cause of the Preceding Symptoms · paragraphs 2–4bodily disposition versus prompting occasion, the Latin Occasio Imaginationis in note 4742, and successive attributed explanations.
17. Member 2. Retention and Evacuation Corrected · paragraphs 5–7the negative and conditional force of timely opportuna in note 5285, within historical sexual-medical restrictions.
18. Member 3. Air Corrected. With a Digression on Air · paragraphs 12–14timely window-opening, environmental conditions and differing authorities; site is a separate editorial repair.
19. Member 4 Exercise of Body and Mind Regulated · paragraphs 8–10necessary and suitable tasks in the Rhazes margin note 5730 and moderate exercise in its continuation.
20. Member 6 Subsection 1 Disturbances of the Mind Corrected Through the Sufferer’s Own Efforts in Resisting as Strongly as Possible and Confiding His Grief to a Friend and So Forth · paragraphs 12–14first occasion or beginning and the primary-cause comparison in Latin note 6111.
21. Subsection 2 Help From Friends Through Counsel and Comfort Gentle and Harsh Methods Ingenious Devices Reassurance Changes in the Way of Life and Removal of Troubling Objects and So Forth · paragraphs 7–9restricted reported cure, then stronger claims about removing object, cause and occasion.
22. Subsection 2 Help From Friends Through Counsel and Comfort Gentle and Harsh Methods Ingenious Devices Reassurance Changes in the Way of Life and Removal of Troubling Objects and So Forth · paragraphs 19–24timely consoling speech, the attributed nepenthe interpretation and letters as relief, with note 6200–note 6201.
23. Subsection 3 Music as a Remedy · paragraphs 15–17importunate kings as insistent petitioners in the biblical music example, distinct from the neighbouring historical cure claims.
24. Member 3 Against Poverty and Want and Other Such Adversities · paragraphs 4–6opportunities for injustice, the wicked-rich and good-poor qualifications, and attributed moral consolation.
25. Member 7 Against Rejection, Abuse, Injuries, Contempt, Disgrace, Insults, Slander, Mockery and the Like · paragraphs 15–18the practical maxim, occasion/opportunity pairing and bald-backed Latin Opportunity in note 7370.
26. Section 1. Member 1. Subsection 1 The Preface · paragraphs 12–15importunitate in the borrowed defence of renewed writing and the limits of the autobiographical adaptation.
27. Member 2. Subsection 1. Causes of Heroic Love: Bodily Temperament, Plentiful Diet, Idleness, Place, Climate, and So Forth · paragraphs 23–25Corinth’s convenient position, Latin opportunitas in note 8843 and the historical limits of the sexual and geographical generalizations.
28. Member 2. Subsection 2. Other Causes of Love Melancholy: Sight; Beauty of the Face, Eyes and Other Parts; and How It Pierces Us · paragraphs 1–3opportunity as a stated condition for attractions to operate, followed by the conjectural Kornmann/Lucian relation.
29. Artificial Attractions of Love and Incitements to Lust Gestures Clothes Dowry and So On · paragraphs 20–22the stronger claim for circumstances sufficient in themselves, and Burton’s qualified discussion of art and nature.
30. Persistence and Opportunity of Time and Place; Meetings, Conversation, Singing, Dancing, Music, Amorous Tales and Sights, Kissing, Familiarity, Tokens, Gifts, Bribes, Promises, Declarations, Tears, and So On · paragraphs 16–19importunity distinguished from opportunity, proximity, restricted choice and as it were necessity.
31. Persistence and Opportunity of Time and Place; Meetings, Conversation, Singing, Dancing, Music, Amorous Tales and Sights, Kissing, Familiarity, Tokens, Gifts, Bribes, Promises, Declarations, Tears, and So On · paragraphs 29–33almost impossible resistance, household and romance examples, and opportunity personified in Abelard’s retrospective story.
32. Subsection 5 Procurers and Love Potions as Causes · paragraphs 64–66calculated timing, opportunum tempus in note 9705 and hyperbolic claims about procurers’ powers.
33. Resist the Beginnings, Avoid Occasions, Change One’s Location; Fair and Foul Means, Contrary Passions and Ingenious Devices; Introduce Another Love and Disparage the Former · paragraphs 49–56avoiding aggravating circumstances, perhaps relief from a friend and the repurposed Plautine appeal.
34. Resist the Beginnings, Avoid Occasions, Change One’s Location; Fair and Foul Means, Contrary Passions and Ingenious Devices; Introduce Another Love and Disparage the Former · paragraphs 18–21resistant examples, especially Socrates’s unaccepted opportunity, and the distinction between avoiding and moderating passion.
35. Resist the Beginnings, Avoid Occasions, Change One’s Location; Fair and Foul Means, Contrary Passions and Ingenious Devices; Introduce Another Love and Disparage the Former · paragraphs 14–16changing lovers, smiling Latin occasion in note 10679 and the unresolved allocation of marginal sources.
36. By Counsel and Persuasion, the Foulness of the Deed, the Faults of Men and Women, the Miseries of Marriage, the Consequences of Lust, and So Forth · paragraphs 23–25friends who importune marriage and the hostile never-right-time reply.
37. Subsection 5 The Last and Best Cure for Love Melancholy Is to Let Lovers Have Their Desire · paragraphs 34–36the later qualified decision to risk marriage, preventing the hostile reply from becoming the final conclusion.
38. Causes of Religious Melancholy. From the Devil, Through Miracles, Apparitions and Oracles. His Instruments or Agents: Politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics and Blind Guides. In Them: Credulity, Fear, Blind Zeal, Ignorance, Solitude, Curiosity, Pride, Vanity, Presumption and So On. His Devices: Fasting, Solitude, Hope, Fear and the Rest · paragraphs 1–8fasting, explicit moderation and timing qualifications, and the polemical opportunity/sole occasion given to the Devil.
39. General Symptoms: Love of Their Own Sect; Hatred of All Other Religions; Obstinacy and Ill Temper; Readiness to Undergo Any Danger or Adversity for It; Martyrs; Blind Zeal and Blind Obedience; Fasts and Vows; Belief in Incredible and Impossible Things. Particular Symptoms Among Pagans, Muslims, Jews and Christians; and Among Christians, Heretics Old and New, Schismatics, Scholastic Theologians, Prophets, Enthusiasts and So On · paragraphs 16–18ordinary occasions as private concerns in the sacrifice polemic, with body/margin discrepancies preserved.
40. Subsection 5 The Cure of Religious Melancholy · paragraphs 21–25fall by occasion in the misnumbered Galatians citation, gentle restoration and the ensuing coercive qualifications.
41. Causes of Despair: The Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Harsh Ministers, Misunderstanding Scripture, Guilty Consciences, and So On · paragraphs 10–12serious grounds of despair, bodily instruments, interaction with melancholy and the difference between Burton’s sufficient cause and Perkins’s occasion/no-direct-cause distinction in note 12914.

In this edition

“Take away the occasions” becomes “remove their causes”: their is supplied from theft and begging. “The occasion of the phantasy” becomes “the occasion that prompts the imagination”, with that prompts making the genitive-like relation explicit. “Without any apparent occasion” becomes “for no apparent reason”, retaining apparent. These renderings should not be combined into a claim that every occasion is either wholly noncausal or a sufficient cause.

“The opportunity of the haven” becomes “its conveniently placed harbour”, turning an abstract relation into a qualified noun phrase; “opportunity of speech” becomes “speech suited to the occasion”. The first concerns location, the second aptness. “If opportunely used” becomes “taken at the right time”, a participial qualification expressing the original condition rather than an unconditional endorsement. “Have small occasions” becomes “little demanding their attention”, and the incident in Randolotius’s account remains unspecified.

The Latin alignments preserve components and additions. In “Post est occasio calva” → “Opportunity is bald at the back”, post supplies at the back and calva bald. In “loci mira opportunitas” → “the place’s remarkable convenience”, mira supplies remarkable. “Necessaria & opportuna” → “necessary and suitable tasks” supplies tasks from the work context. “multa opportunaque didici” becomes “I learned much that was useful”, consolidating the coordinated adjectives and leaving the enclitic and unexpressed. The separate negative “nec opportuna prodest” remains a denial of benefit even when timely.

“Importunity and opportunity” distinguishes persistence from access. The erotic examples retain unless, almost and as it were, while Socrates’s refusal supplies a consequential contrast. The religious fragment with sole occasion is recast with very occasion and a supplied grammatical subject; the difference in exclusive force is made explicit. “Fall by occasion” is aligned as a whole construction with being overtaken by a fault, not indexed as proof that occasion alone means fault.

“Unadvisedly, importunely, immoderately used” preserves three distinct criticisms as “used without judgement, at an unsuitable time or to excess”. In the Latin bath sentence, the English shares uses them across the coordinated branches, so the short importune alignment is not a standalone clause. “Importunus sudor” → “troublesome sweating” keeps the Latin adjective and noun distinct from Burton’s subsequent English gloss. In the despair comparison, “this upon great occasion” → “despair fears on serious grounds” supplies despair from this and repeats the shared fears; occasion supplies grounds, not the seriousness or the fear.

fall by occasion

Printed “fall by occasion” (English; phrase).

To lapse or be overtaken by wrongdoing.

Here: The whole biblical construction names a fall into fault. The modern uses a passive expression; occasion is not being independently translated as fault outside that construction.

Context: Burton cites Galatians 1, while the intended passage is 6:1, to urge gentle restoration in his stated middle course. The next paragraphs still prescribe exclusion and coercion, so this is not an unqualified modern toleration policy.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: If any man shall fall by occasion

Modern rendering: if anyone should be overtaken by a fault

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The complete conditional clause is recast from active falling to being overtaken by a fault. The rendering does not establish a standalone occasion=fault synonym.

importune

Printed “importune” (Latin; lemma).

At an unsuitable time; Latin adverb importune.

Here: Aut supplies or; importune the unsuitable timing. Utatur means uses, but the supplied translation shares uses them from the preceding coordination rather than repeating it in this selected modern unit.

Context: The Struthius margin describes bath misuse alongside excessive duration and frequency. Burton’s next paragraph explicitly allows that the same bath may benefit one person and harm another within his humoral account.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: aut importune utatur

Modern rendering: or at an unsuitable time

Alignment scope: Coordinated Latin clause with its predicate shared from the preceding English branch

Word and construction: The Latin repeats a verb in this coordinated branch; the English shares uses them from the preceding branch. Only the disjunction and timing are separately expressed here.

Alignment qualification: Construction-level alignment with a shared English predicate, not an equal standalone clause.

Modern container: note

importunely

Printed “importunely” (English; lemma).

At an unsuitable or inconvenient time.

Here: Importunely supplies at an unsuitable time, distinct from unadvisedly without judgement and immoderately to excess. It does not mean persistent solicitation here.

Context: Burton’s bloodletting argument contrasts neglect when he thinks it indicated with harmful misuse; the neighboring bath discussion also varies judgment by presumed humoral constitution. These historical treatments are not present-day instructions.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: unadvisedly, importunely, immoderately used

Modern rendering: used without judgement, at an unsuitable time or to excess

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The three adverbs are rendered as three distinct phrases, with the participle moved to the start; or makes the alternatives explicit.

importunity

Printed “Importunity” (English; lemma).

Persistent urging or solicitation.

Here: Importunity supplies persistence, distinct from opportunity, the favourable circumstances of time and place. Their similar sound does not make them synonyms.

Context: The subsection heading joins persistent pursuit with the conditions and devices of courtship. This describes Burton’s subject, not a recommendation to override another person’s wishes.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: Importunity and opportunity of time, place

Modern rendering: Persistence and opportunity of time and place

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “importunity” (English; lemma).

Citation key: importunity.

Here: Importunity again means persistence; opportunity means access. The modern changes this to such while preserving both contributions.

Context: Burton discusses servants, households and constrained choice, with as it were qualifying necessity. The allegations and romance example remain attributed, not universal observations.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: this opportunity and importunity

Modern rendering: such opportunity and persistence

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “importunate” (English; lemma).

Citation key: importunate.

Here: Importunate is the adjective insistent, describing kings pressing Elisha, not a favourable opportunity or unsuitable timing.

Context: Burton’s biblical example connects music with prophetic inspiration; it is a reported religious narrative, not an experimentally established cure.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: importunate kings

Modern rendering: insistent kings

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “importune” (English; lemma).

Citation key: importune.

Here: Importune is a verb meaning press or urge persistently; it is not the Latin timing adverb importune. The pressure here comes from friends urging marriage.

Context: The reply that it is never the right time belongs to the hostile case against marriage, not Burton’s final conclusion. The nearby proverb leaves the philosopher unnamed.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: importune thee to marry

Modern rendering: press you to marry

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “importunitate” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: importunitas.

Here: Importunitate is the ablative singular of importunitas, the means of being overcome; eorum supplies their and victus overcome. The abstract noun supplies insistence, not the entire participial construction.

Context: Burton borrows a defence of renewed writing through Barth’s Celestina translation. The exact adaptation and the sixth-time claim remain within this attributed passage, not independently verified autobiography.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: eorum importunitate victus

Modern rendering: Overcome by their insistence

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The full participial construction is aligned: by expresses the ablative relation; eorum their, importunitate insistence, victus overcome.

importunus

Printed “importunus” (Latin; lemma).

Troublesome or unseasonable; Latin masculine singular adjective.

Here: Importunus modifies sudor, sweating. The modern first renders the Latin troublesome sweating, then retains Burton’s separate English unseasonable sweat; the two formulations are not silently merged.

Context: The phrase belongs to an attributed historical symptom catalogue. The preceding paragraph explicitly denies that fear and sorrow are universal symptoms; this is not a modern definition of hypochondria.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: importunus sudor

Modern rendering: troublesome sweating

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The Latin adjective supplies troublesome and its noun sweating; Burton’s following English gloss has its own separate modern rendering.

Further local use

Printed “importuno” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: importunus.

Here: Importuno is ablative masculine singular agreeing with sudore, sweating; cum supplies along with, totius corporis of the whole body, rendered over the whole body. It describes troublesome sweating rather than persistent pleading.

Context: The marginal symptom catalogue is a historical account; the broader body text says sweating upon all occasions, which is not the literal content of this shorter Latin construction.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: cum sudore totius corporis importuno

Modern rendering: along with troublesome sweating over the whole body

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The entire prepositional phrase is aligned; over the whole body idiomatically renders the genitive totius corporis.

Modern container: note

occasio

Printed “occasio” (Latin; lemma).

Opportunity, a favourable moment or opening, here personified.

Here: Occasio is nominative singular, the subject; post means at the back, est is, calva bald. The image represents a chance that cannot be grasped after it passes.

Context: The marginal proverb accompanies the advice to seize opportunity. The supplied note explains the passing figure, without assigning an unverified author.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: Post est occasio calva

Modern rendering: Opportunity is bald at the back

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Modern container: note

Further local use

Printed “occasio” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: occasio.

Here: Latin occasio is an opportunity; the modern supplies an. It is one item in a list involving a supporter and recommender, rather than the entire cause of success.

Context: Burton rearranges Pliny 6.23 and applies a young advocate’s introduction to writing. The body’s Trajan attribution conflicts with Triarius, the actual addressee of the compared letter.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: occasio

Modern rendering: an opportunity

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The single noun is rendered with an English indefinite article; the rest of the Latin list is context, not attributed to occasio.

Modern container: note

Further local use

Printed “occasio” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: occasio.

Here: Occasio is opportunity personified as smiling favourably; quam primum supplies as soon as, arriserit the smiling verb. On him is supplied from the surrounding subject.

Context: The Calcagnini margin illustrates a changing lover in the Galatea story. The neighboring Aristaenetus citation is also present, but their exact allocation and relation remain uncollated.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: quam primum occasio arriserit

Modern rendering: as soon as opportunity smiled on him

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The full temporal construction is aligned; on him is supplied from the narrative subject.

Modern container: note

occasio · Occasio

Printed “Occasio” (Latin; lemma).

An occasion or circumstance prompting something.

Here: Occasio is the nominative noun; imaginationis is genitive of imaginatio, imagination. The modern supplies The and that prompts to clarify the relation between the nouns.

Context: This is the second item in Burton’s marginal summary of the Fracastorius account, distinguished from bodily disposition, not a modern diagnosis.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: Occasio Imaginationis

Modern rendering: The occasion that prompts the imagination

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The two-noun Latin construction is expanded with an English article and relative clause; prompts is an explanatory supply.

Modern container: note

Further local use

Printed “occasionem” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: occasio.

Here: Occasionem is accusative singular, the object of nactum est, obtained or took; malum the illness, velut as, a primariâ causâ from a primary cause. The construction names causal origin, not merely a convenient time.

Context: Burton quotes Piso in the argument for counteracting troubling imaginings; the comparison with primary cause prevents a rigid rule that occasion must always be noncausal.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: malum velut a primariâ causâ occasionem nactum est

Modern rendering: the illness took its occasion as from a primary cause

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The full clause is aligned, with the and its supplied for English idiom; the comparison as from a primary cause remains explicit.

Modern container: note

occasion · occasions · local use 1

Printed “occasions” (English; lemma).

Circumstances that give rise to or enable an event; causes or inducements.

Here: Occasions are the social conditions leading to theft and begging. The modern supplies their from those named problems and renders occasions as causes.

Context: Burton condenses the prevention-versus-punishment argument in More’s Utopia and blames bad government and lack of occupational training. This is his social argument, not a neutral proof that every offence has one cause.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: take away the occasions

Modern rendering: remove their causes

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: Take away becomes remove; occasions becomes causes; their is supplied from the preceding theft and begging.

Further local use

Printed “occasion” (English; lemma).

Citation key: occasion.

Here: An occasion is a circumstance prompting sorrow; small is a separate qualifier.

Context: Burton is defining transitory melancholy in a loose sense and distinguishes it from an established condition. The following universality concerns that passing sense, not a present-day diagnosis.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: every smal occasion of sorrow

Modern rendering: every small occasion of sorrow

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “occasion” (English; lemma).

Citation key: occasion.

Here: Occasion means a reason or prompting circumstance; apparent is supplied by its separate modifier in without apparent occasion, rendered for no apparent reason. This is part of a reported definition of melancholy which Burton immediately subjects to objection, rather than an unqualified assertion that every melancholy state lacks a cause.

Context: The usual definition is reported among medical authorities and immediately challenged as insufficient because it fails to specify imagination and brain. It is not Burton’s uncontested final definition.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: without any apparent occasion

Modern rendering: for no apparent reason

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “occasion” (English; lemma).

Citation key: occasion.

Here: Occasion means the originating circumstance, explicitly joined to beginning and primary causation here. His refers to the disease, modernized as its.

Context: Burton attributes the account to Piso and proposes contrary activity and reasoning in a historical remedy argument. Fained fears means fears judged imaginary, not necessarily deliberate pretence.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: takes his first occasion or beginning

Modern rendering: takes its first occasion or beginning

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “occasion” (English; lemma).

Citation key: occasion.

Here: Occasion is a ground or reason for fear; great supplies serious. This stands for despair and fears is carried over from the preceding comparison. Neither word belongs to occasion itself.

Context: Burton distinguishes melancholy from despair but then allows interaction, using the stronger sufficient cause where the supplied note reports that Perkins allowed an occasion but no direct cause. These historical distinctions are not silently harmonized.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: this upon great occasion

Modern rendering: despair fears on serious grounds

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The elliptical clause is expanded with despair for this and the shared verb fears; great occasion becomes serious grounds.

occasion · local use 1

Printed “occasion” (English; lemma).

A prompting circumstance or stimulus

Here: Occasion is distinguished locally from bodily disposition: altered eyesight or ringing ears can provide the occasion for an imagined bodily state. The modern supplies that prompts to explain the relation.

Context: Burton attributes two reasons to Fracastorius, then gives Laurentius’s account for imagined rank. These are historical explanations, with the compressed pleasure/displeasure transition retained.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: the occasion of the phantasy

Modern rendering: the occasion that prompts the imagination

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: Of the phantasy is made explicit as that prompts the imagination; that prompts is explanatory wording, not a separate source verb.

occasion · occasions · local use 2

Printed “occasions” (English; lemma).

Affairs, tasks or matters requiring attention.

Here: Occasions are things to do, not favourable chances or social celebrations. Small qualifies their amount or importance; the modern makes the demands on attention explicit.

Context: Burton’s moralized account of idleness ranges from chosen leisure to inability to undertake ordinary tasks. The lexicon does not adopt his blame as a modern clinical judgment.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: have small occasions

Modern rendering: little demanding their attention

Alignment scope: Contextual recasting of the original finite predicate as a modern construction describing matters demanding attention

Word and construction: Occasions means matters or business requiring attention; small supplies the small quantity. The original finite predicate have small occasions is recast as little demanding their attention, with have absorbed by that modern construction.

Further local use

Printed “occasions” (English; lemma).

Citation key: occasion.

Here: Occasions means private concerns or affairs; ordinary supplies everyday.

Context: Burton contrasts public sacrifice with private purposes in a polemic against non-Christian worship. His catalogue is attributed, and the body/margin disagree on the number of bulls for the return from Troy.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: for their ordinary occasions

Modern rendering: for their everyday concerns

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

occasion · local use 2

Printed “occasion” (English; lemma).

An incident or happening.

Here: The disturbing event is left unspecified. Occasion does not identify what happened or establish a particular external cause.

Context: Randolotius’s reported attack and relief are historical case narrative; the exact source and the effectiveness of the reported remedy remain unverified.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: molested by an occasion

Modern rendering: he was troubled by some incident

Alignment scope: Participial phrase recast as a finite clause with supplied subject and verb

Word and construction: The participial phrase is recast as a finite clause with supplied he was; an becomes some, while molested becomes troubled.

occasion · occasions · local use 3

Printed “occasions” (English; lemma).

Opportunities or inducements to an action.

Here: The opportunities are morally harmful because their purpose is unjust conduct. So is supplied in the modern comparison; offered is absorbed into the availability of opportunities.

Context: The Theodoret conclusion concerns a wealthy person who is also wicked and a poor person if good. It does not say every rich person is wicked or every poor person happy.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: many occasions offered to live unjustly

Modern rendering: so many opportunities to live unjustly

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The infinitival purpose is retained; so is supplied and offered is not separately translated, so this is a condensed construction rather than exact component equivalence.

Further local use

Printed “occasions” (English; lemma).

Citation key: occasion.

Here: Occasions are circumstances that provoke or intensify the passion; the following phrase supplies Burton’s own explanation.

Context: The advice is historical love-melancholy treatment. A discerning friend may haply, perhaps, relieve distress; the next Plautus quotation originally asks bolts to let the beloved out and is repurposed after advice to remove her.

Source: original body

Source and modern wording: avoid occasions, or any circumstance that may aggravate his disease

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

occasion / opportunity

Printed “occasion” (English; family).

A favourable opening or chance for action.

Here: Occasion and opportunity are near synonyms in this maxim. Omit not means do not miss; embrace means seize; loose means lose or waste.

Context: The maxim belongs to a series of practical precepts, accompanied by the bald-backed Opportunity image in the margin. It is not a claim that every offered action should be taken.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: Omit not occasion, embrace opportunity, loose no time

Modern rendering: Do not miss the occasion: seize the opportunity and waste no time

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The full coordinated maxim is aligned; the modern supplies articles and and, and turns the three clauses into a more explicit sequence.

Further local use

Printed “occasion” (English; lemma).

Citation key: occasion.

Here: Occasion is a favourable opening for intellectual work to succeed, among material, subject and influential recommendation.

Context: Burton adapts Pliny’s discussion of bringing a young advocate to notice to the reception of writing. The letter is to Triarius, although Burton names Trajan; his English list differs from the marginal Latin.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: the matter, subject, occasion, and some commending favorite

Modern rendering: suitable material, a subject, an occasion, and some influential person to recommend it

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The list is explanatory: suitable develops the contextual suitability of material; commending favorite becomes influential person to recommend it. Occasion itself corresponds to an occasion, with supplied article.

opportune

Printed “opportune” (English; lemma).

Conveniently situated or suitable for the purpose.

Here: Opportune describes useful location for commerce, rather than only a favourable moment. Havens are harbours.

Context: Burton’s praise of Low Countries industry contrasts commercial achievement with natural resources; his geographical grouping is broader than the United Provinces.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: opportune havens

Modern rendering: conveniently placed harbours

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “opportune” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportune.

Here: Opportune means advantageously situated. Other is supplied to express the relation to the preceding suitable harbours.

Context: These are provisions in Burton’s imagined commonwealth, with exceptions for frontier and coastal towns, not a description of implemented policy.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: opportune places

Modern rendering: other advantageous places

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: Advantageous represents opportune; other is supplied from the coordination with harbours.

Further local use

Printed “opportune” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportune.

Here: Opportune means conveniently located for use; the market place is not an opportunity to speculate.

Context: Burton is planning his ideal cities and differentiates the provision of markets from citadels in some, not all, cities.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: opportune market places

Modern rendering: conveniently placed markets

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

opportunely · local use 1

Printed “opportunely” (English; lemma).

At an appropriate or favourable time.

Here: Opportunely qualifies exercise. The modern participial phrase expresses the original if condition without repeating if; the contrast with unseasonable, violent and excessive use limits the praise.

Context: Burton attributes the physiological explanation to Fernel and Galen within humoral medicine. The claim is not a present-day regimen.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: if opportunely used

Modern rendering: taken at the right time

Alignment scope: Conditional phrase recast as a participial qualification

Word and construction: Original conditional if... used is recast as a qualifying participial phrase taken...; at the right time renders opportunely. The original condition is not an unqualified benefit claim.

Further local use

Printed “opportune” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportune.

Here: Opportune is the adjective timely, applied to opening and shutting windows; the modern moves its timing qualification to the end.

Context: The passage reports historical environmental management, with adverse-weather conditions and differing authorities. The source omission in if the of the dwelling is repaired separately with site and is not supplied by opportune.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: opportune opening and shutting of windowes

Modern rendering: opening and closing windows at the right time

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

opportunely · local use 2

Printed “opportunely” (English; lemma).

Suitably or appropriately

Here: Opportunely concerns where a topic belongs in Burton’s exposition, not a lucky opportunity or a medical instruction. More remains comparative.

Context: Burton postpones discussion of affected persons after discussing the affected part; his ensuing alleged predispositions remain historical.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: which shall be more opportunely spoken of elsewhere

Modern rendering: There will be a more suitable place to discuss them elsewhere

Alignment scope: Relative clause recast as a finite existential clause

Word and construction: The original relative passive clause becomes a finite existential clause; a suitable place is supplied to express the adverb’s contextual force, and them refers back to the parties.

opportunitas

Printed “opportunitas” (Latin; lemma).

Convenience or advantageous situation.

Here: Opportunitas is the nominative noun; loci means of the place, mira remarkable. The English article is supplied.

Context: The Gerbel margin accompanies Burton’s Corinth account; its precise intermediary wording remains uncollated, and the temple claim is a compressed historical report.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: loci mira opportunitas

Modern rendering: the place’s remarkable convenience

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The Latin noun phrase becomes an English possessive phrase; remarkable belongs to mira, not to opportunitas.

Modern container: note

opportunity · local use 1

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Favourable situation or access; practical convenience.

Here: Opportunity means the harbour’s advantageous position for shipping. The modern expresses the abstract noun as conveniently placed, and supplies its from Hormuz.

Context: Burton’s commercial comparison says the harbour makes Hormuz flourish. The neighboring geography and travel reports remain historical, including his misplaced Arabia Petraea for Mecca.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: the opportunity of the haven

Modern rendering: its conveniently placed harbour

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The abstract opportunity of the haven is recast as a qualified harbour noun phrase; conveniently placed carries opportunity, its identifies the town’s harbour.

Further local use

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportunity.

Here: Opportunity means the practical advantage offered by rivers to settlements, not a momentary chance.

Context: Burton juxtaposes navigation and defensive convenience with disputed claims about healthy sites and air. Commercial suitability does not automatically establish healthfulness.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: take the opportunity of Rivers

Modern rendering: take advantage of rivers

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportunity.

Here: Opportunity is a convenient geographical situation; place becomes city, entertain receiving, and foreign visitors represents forrain commers.

Context: Burton connects Corinth’s commercial access with its sexual reputation. His compressed Strabo account and Gerbel intermediary do not establish a present-day demographic fact.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: the opportunity of the place to entertain those forrain commers

Modern rendering: the city’s convenient position for receiving foreign visitors

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

opportunity · local use 2

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Timeliness or aptness to the circumstances.

Here: Opportunity here is the suitability of speech to its occasion, not merely a chance to speak. The modern makes that relation explicit.

Context: Burton endorses an attributed interpretation of Homer’s nepenthe as well-timed discourse. The Odyssey describes a drug; Macrobius expressly offers the story interpretation. Other named intermediaries remain uncollated.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: opportunity of speech

Modern rendering: speech suited to the occasion

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The abstract noun phrase is recast as speech qualified by suited to the occasion; the phrase defines aptness rather than access to conversation.

opportunity · local use 3

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Access or favourable circumstances enabling an action or encounter.

Here: Opportunity is offered by time and place. Except introduces a necessary condition in this sentence, not an exceptionless law that encounters compel desire.

Context: Burton says the previously listed causes cannot take effect without opportunities and accompanying attractions. Later statements intensify the rhetoric, while the Socrates example shows opportunity resisted.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: except opportunity be offered of time, place

Modern rendering: unless time and place offer an opportunity

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The passive original becomes an active modern construction with time and place as subjects, retaining unless and supplying an.

Further local use

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportunity.

Here: Opportunity means favourable circumstances enabling attraction.

Context: Burton here says the circumstances could each suffice, stronger language than the necessary-condition formulation. The article records the rhetorical variation rather than forcing a consistent formal theory.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: opportunity of time and place

Modern rendering: favourable circumstances of time and place

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportunity.

Here: Opportunity is access to shared living or meetings; the modern plural is natural English for the several possibilities.

Context: Burton couples access with persistent solicitation and restricted choice. As it were qualifies his claim of necessity; the narrative is not proof that proximity removes agency.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: opportunity of living, or coming together

Modern rendering: opportunities to live or meet together

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: Singular opportunity with coordinated gerunds becomes plural opportunities with coordinated infinitives; coming together is rendered meet together.

Further local use

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportunity.

Here: Opportunity denotes enabling circumstances, pluralized in the modern to agree with the following set of circumstances.

Context: The assertion is almost impossible, not impossible without exception, and particularly concerns leisured young people in great households. The following legendary and autobiographical examples are not statistical evidence.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: This opportunity of time and place

Modern rendering: These opportunities of time and place

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The singular demonstrative and noun become plural; the time/place qualification is retained.

Further local use

Printed “opportunity” (English; lemma).

Citation key: opportunity.

Here: Opportunity is an available occasion for intimacy, which Socrates is reported to reject.

Context: In Alcibiades’s account in Plato’s Symposium, one man is alone with another and is courted but resists. This is a counterexample to treating availability as compulsory consummation.

Source: original body

Source and modern wording: he had an opportunity

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

opportunity / occasion

Printed “opportunity” (English; family).

An opening or set of circumstances available for exploitation.

Here: Opportunity and occasion describe conditions Burton says the Devil exploits. Best and sole are separate intensifiers; the modern very occasion does not expressly reproduce sole as only. These supplies the antecedent list as a grammatical subject.

Context: Burton’s universal assertion about visions and bodily/environmental precursors belongs to religious polemic and historical physiology. He has explicitly defended moderate, seasonable fasting, so this must not be read as condemning all fasting or validating demonic causation.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: The best opportunity and sole occasion the Divell takes to delude them

Modern rendering: These give the Devil his best opportunity and very occasion to deceive them

Alignment scope: Sentence-level recasting with explicit sole/very qualification

Word and construction: The original fragment is recast as a finite sentence with These give and his supplied; delude becomes deceive. Sole is rendered very rather than the explicit exclusive only, a qualification in the modern alignment.

Alignment qualification: The two formulations are aligned at sentence level but differ in the explicit force of sole/very; neither is a neutral causal finding.

opportunus · opportunaque

Printed “opportunaque” (Latin; lemma).

Useful or suitable things; Latin neuter plural opportuna with enclitic -que, and.

Here: Multa means many things or much, didici I learned. The modern folds the coordinated useful things into much that was useful rather than separately translating and.

Context: Burton adapts Giovio’s Vatican recollection. Giovio’s thirty-seven years must remain distinct from Burton’s own thirty; the citation is an adaptation, not a verbatim self-description.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: multa opportunaque didici

Modern rendering: I learned much that was useful

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The coordinated substantival adjectives are consolidated as much that was useful; -que is not separately expressed, and I is supplied by the first-person verb.

Further local use

Printed “opportuna” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: opportunus.

Here: Opportuna means suitable things to do, neuter plural alongside necessaria, necessary things. Tasks is supplied from the instruction to assign work and the ensuing operum.

Context: The Rhazes margin recommends occupation that fills the mind and changes thoughts. This is an attributed historical therapeutic account, not a modern prescription.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: necessaria & opportuna

Modern rendering: necessary and suitable tasks

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The substantival adjectives are rendered as adjectives plus the supplied noun tasks; & supplies and.

Modern container: note

opportunus · opportuna

Printed “opportuna” (Latin; lemma).

Timely or appropriately timed; Latin feminine singular adjective.

Here: Opportuna qualifies the sexual activity understood from the context. Nec supplies nor, prodest helps; it, does and even when make the elliptical English construction explicit. Timely activity is still denied benefit except under the following stated conditions.

Context: The historical medical margin adds a timing qualification not stated identically in the body. Burton’s surrounding unless/except restrictions must remain; none of the passage is adopted as present-day sexual or medical advice.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: nec opportuna prodest

Modern rendering: nor does it help even when timely

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The short Latin predication is expanded as a concessive timing clause; even when expresses the force of opportuna within the negative statement, not an independent guarantee of benefit.

Modern container: note

Further local use

Printed “opportunum” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: opportunus.

Here: Opportunum means favourable or timely, agreeing with tempus, time; aucupantes means watching or hunting for. Their is supplied from the agents, and opportunity condenses favourable time.

Context: The Maserius margin depicts procurers’ calculated timing in hyperbolic claims about defeating exemplary chastity. It is a polemical description, not verified inevitability or a recommended tactic.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: opportunum tempus aucupantes

Modern rendering: watching for their opportunity

Alignment scope: Original marginal wording aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The adjective and noun become opportunity; the participle gives watching for, with their supplied from the surrounding actors.

Modern container: note