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Lysis
Plato · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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ὅρος
horosHoros means boundary, standard, determining criterion.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordHoros means boundary, standard, determining criterion.
- In LysisSocrates asks whether the neighbor has the same ὅρος as the father in deciding whether to entrust affairs to Lysis.
- Reading contextThe word marks the transfer of a criterion from one social relation to another, beginning the argument’s widening from family to neighbor, city, and royal household.
- A place to readThe Greek example means “the same standard as for the father.”
- English renderings
- Boundary, standard, determining criterion
Meaning
Boundary, standard, determining criterion.
Grammatical category: noun, masculine.
Use in the book
Socrates asks whether the neighbor has the same ὅρος as the father in deciding whether to entrust affairs to Lysis. The governing condition has just been stated: Lysis must be thought to understand the task better than the person handing it over.
“Standard” fits this use better than a physical boundary or a formal definition. The word marks the transfer of a criterion from one social relation to another, beginning the argument’s widening from family to neighbor, city, and royal household.
Places to read
- 209cὁ αὐτὸς ὅρος ὅσπερ τῷ πατρὶ — the same standard as for the father.
From the book
Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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κριτήριον
kritērionA kritērion is what enables discrimination or judgment.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordA kritērion is what enables discrimination or judgment.
- In StobaeusThe chapter on imagination and the criterion names intellect and perception as criteria for intelligible and perceptible things respectively.
- In this edition“Criterion,” with plural “criteria,” preserves the technical term.
- A place to beginIntellect and perception are criteria for different kinds of object.
- English renderings
- criterion; standard of judgment
Meaning
A kritērion is what enables discrimination or judgment. The term can concern a cognitive faculty or a measure used to assess a difference; it need not be a proposition or rule.
Use in the book
The chapter on imagination and the criterion names intellect and perception as criteria for intelligible and perceptible things respectively. Zeno’s report on time calls time both a measure and a criterion of speed and slowness.
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Translation in this edition
“Criterion,” with plural “criteria,” preserves the technical term. This headword supplies the plainer gloss “standard of judgment” to make the entry easier to find.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 104, 497. I.58.1.3 makes a compressed final claim about everything being constituted from and through these. The lexicon does not expand its unspecified scope into a further theory.