ὠνόμασται, “"expressed"” (rather than “"mentioned"”): cp. Dem. De Cor. § 35 “οὐ γὰρ τὰ ῥήματα τὰς οἰκειότητας ἔφη βεβαιοῦν, μάλα σεμνῶς ὀνομάζων” (expressing himself in very stately language). βραχέσι, not "short," but "light," "trivial": Thuc. 1.78 “βουλεύεσθε οὖν βραδέως ὡς οὐ περὶ βραχέων”.
This text is part of:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.