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quinta-feira 25 de janeiro de 2024
gr. μηχανή, mekhane, mechane
C. C. W. Taylor, Plato Protagoras. Translated with Notes, Clarendon Plato Series, General Editor: M. J. Woods, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1976 (1989): «άμηχανός = ‘helpless disaster’. The Greek amechanos (from mechane, ‘contrivance’, hence ‘machine’) may mean either ‘lacking in resource or means’ or ‘such as not to be dealt with by any resource or means’» (p. 146).
LÉXICO: máquina; mechane